Sunday, 9 January 2011
The shooting in Arizona, yesterday, 8 January 2011
I am reluctant to see anything random about the shooting of Cogresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, along with 17 others, in Arizona yesterday. I think it is the translation into action of the incitement to violence emerging from the so-called Tea Party movement of the US Republicans. I understand that Sarah Palin is to be questioned about the posters she made with pictures of Gabrielle Giffords and others in the cross-hairs of a gun. It only takes a mentally unbalanced person to see this as an "instruction" to shoot. Political debate in America has now become a war that will be fought with guns on the streets of the country.
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I see that Mr Harvard Hollenberg, attorney-at-law, has posted that the Attorney-General should consider indicting Ms Sarah Palin on a charge of involuntary manslaughter (!) It would be intersting to see how this story evolves over the new few weeks and months.
So the right-wing Tea Party people did not put the gun to Gabrielle Giffords' head and pull the trigger, but there would always be the consideration that absent the vitriolic attacks on others by this pernicious group this shooting might not have happened. Sarah Palin's hurried removal of the cross-hairs from her list of targeted Democrats must suggest that she, herself, sees a connection between her vile attacks and the shooting in Tucson, AZ.
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