Shooting The Bastards

The massacre in Arizona is the fault of Fox News, Bill O’Riely, Glen Beck and Sara Palin according to every lefty on Facebook and various prominent idiots.  Hey, here’s a thought – why not blame it on the ONLY person responsible – the whack job who did it.

Naw, too easy.  We must blame politicians and pundits we don’t like.  Ok, I’ll play along.  Let’s blame the politicians who have made it is impossible for anyone to get elected unless they’re a Democrat or a Republican. Let’s blame those who, through gerrymandering, election laws and media manipulation game the system so thoroughly that incumbents get re-elected 95%+ of the time.  That would be, let’s see, approximately, all of them.

Political writer Claire Wolfe said, “America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” She said that fifteen years ago, before the TSA,  before Real ID, before the PATRIOT act, before extraordinary rendition, before the militarization of the police, before the thousands of big and little laws and regulations that are relentlessly driving us toward becoming a police state.

We shouldn’t be surprised that some people are so incensed at the impossibility of change through established channels they resort to shooting the bastards. We should be surprised (and grateful) it doesn’t happen a lot more often.

3 Comment(s)

  1. When a Muslim nutjob opened fire on Fort Hood shouting Allahu Akhbar, we were cautioned not to jump to conclusions. Ten minutes after this tragedy you couldn’t turn on your TV without seeing some pundit spewing about the influence of the people and groups you just mentioned, with no knowledge or evidence of the kid’s political leanings at all. Funny how that works.

    TimS | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply

  2. You don’t have to be a far-left nutjob to despise most of what Sarah Palin stands for, but honestly I don’t understand how can anyone think her diagram in any way advocates the literal assassination of anyone. It can be pretty easy to get carried away finding fault with somebody, especially if you disagree with them so much.

    GodlessHeathen | Jan 12, 2011 | Reply

  3. It is now time to start shooting back. I’ve always advocated political… removals, let us say.

    If a candidate does not do what they promise, then it’s far time to remove them, and anyone that backs their decisions.

    If we must, we’ll work from their support arm (C*ps) up, and work from there.

    My patriotic, freedom loving brothers, time to start sniping.

    mournful_night | Dec 16, 2011 | Reply

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