'Empire State Building Shooting's Interesting Connection to Obama

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Once again there has been a fatal shooting, once again the media will scramble to try to connect the shooter to the TEA Party or conservatives, and once again guns will be blamed for the violence.

New York's Empire State Building was the scene of today's shooting where an unemployed fashion designer shot, and killed, his old boss. Eight innocent bystanders were wounded, and the gunman was killed by the police.

Was it a grudge shooting? Absolutely. The man was falling short on the job, says Reuters, and so the man's boss had to let him go.

The boss, Steve Ercolino, was having a discussion with a colleague when the shooter, dressed up in a suit and tie, walked up, and began shooting at close range, standing over the victim after he fell to the ground continuing the pull the trigger five times.

When police approached the gunman, identified as Jeffrey Johnson, he pulled his firearm on them, and they opened fire.

The animosity between Ercolino and Johnson is well documented and goes back to over a year ago. Though complaints were filed, no charges ever resulted from the complaints.

Though I am not directly blaming this on any politician, or Obama, the anti-business atmosphere being promoted by the liberals may have had an indirect influence. 

Obama's biggest attacks against Mitt Romney have been that the republican candidate for president is not only a successful businessman, but a rich one. The wealthy guy in charge has become the enemy. The democrats have been fostering a "power to the workers" attitude, and some of the voters are buying into the Marxist ploy.

The democrats bully and personally attack anyone that opposes their ideology, and they are willing to create fabrications unending if necessary. Three years of high unemployment numbers under Obama, rising deficit that dwarfs any past president's federal spending, and the call to raise taxes during a time when the economy needs growth, not punishment against the producers of society, and this administration still needs to resort to underhanded tactics, and of course they still blame Bush.

Obama has accused Romney of committing a felony, and has demanded Romney release his tax returns. Why? So he can portray Romney as the enemy because he is a successful businessman who has made millions doing what he does.

The democrat party's war on business has revealed that the leftists hate the private sector, entrepreneurship and corporations. Obama doubled down by saying in Roanoke, Virginia, "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

Obama is fostering a "proletariat versus the bourgeois" kind of environment, the same atmosphere created by the Marxists before the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

The liberal left believes that the community raises the kids, the community builds the businesses, and the community deserves all of the returns for it. They spit on individuality, crediting government with being an indispensable part of the success of any business.

CEOs have been brutalized for daring to make a lot of money. Executives are being burned at the proverbial stake for daring to receive large bonuses for their work. Corporations are being told they have no business contributing to any political candidate, and the liberals have been railing against the Citizens United case because the judges have determined that corporations are people too.

Corporations can't be people, argue the leftists, because those big ol' rich corporate types are evil.

The labor unions, of course, are just fine.

The bosses of the world did not build their businesses, claims Obama. The bosses of the world are thieves. It wasn't their ingenuity, or their hard work, that made them rich and successful. It was either them stealing the money from the lower classes, or the government's infrastructure (or both) that made them what they are today. The bosses are dishonest, we are being told. They are crooks. They are the enemy.

Government, claims Obama, created the climate for businesses to thrive, and now those greedy people claim they did it themselves.

So in addition to being crooks, they must be liars too!

This is the Marxist mindset. The democrats hold the government up as the reason success is possible. Individuality and capitalism can't flourish without government's regulations and control, believe the liberals.

Never mind that there would be no government if successful businesses and wealthy individuals weren't pouring their revenues into the federal government in the form of taxes.

The free market is the enemy, so the bosses are the enemy. That is what the liberal left is promoting. The rich don't pay their fair share. The rich are sitting on piles of money so the economy can't grow. And the lies go on and on and on. . .

And people believe this crap. People believe that the bosses are these big, giant, cigar smoking, greedy fat cats who are in it for profit and will step on the little guy to achieve it.

The democrats are anti-business, and they promote an anti-business atmosphere.

And then we wonder why a guy who lost his job is willing to shoot his old boss, and then stand over the guy pulling the trigger over and over and over again?

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Two dead, 8 wounded in gunfire near NY's Empire State Building - Reuters