I actually subscribe to a terrorist watch website called START. Do you know when the most terrorism threats were and from whom? 1970. Not Muslims. Not Tea Party. But radical leftists protesting the Vietnam War. The chart is just dramatic. Those people who were doing the threatening, burning buildings, marching, posturing and even killing (while lengthening the war giving aid to the enemy), then went on to become college professors and government advisers or politicians, and one, Bill Ayers, became a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He and his wife, also a domestic terrorist, lived in Obama's neighborhood, and supported his candidacy.
Yet what is the drivel I'm hearing on TV about the Arizona shooting which had zip to do with politics and everything to do with a crazy, deranged young man? "We need to tone down the rhetoric." Yes, Ms. Giffords had been receiving threats--many from the far left who believed she wasn't a very good Pelosi/Obama follower. I'm appalled at the misinformed media attacks on Palin and the Tea Party. Never in the history of this country has there been a quieter more peaceful grass roots movement than the Tea Party. What has infuriated the left is that this sort of peaceful, legal ballot box revolution was successful. Ms. Palin is fiesty and outspoken, and she's nobody's patsy. But to blame her, even indirectly, for the actions of one deranged person, is absurd.
It's time for the main stream media to tone down its speculations, innuendo, and hyperventilating, and go to the START webpage and take a look at the terrorism chart.
The media hasn't learned from Lee Harvey Oswald the killer of President Kennedy, Seung-Hui Cho, the Va Tech shooter, Amy Bishop, the angry professor and Steven Kazmierczak, the grad student. None of these people were right wing nut cakes, but at least three were deeply mentally disturbed, and one was a Communist.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
