Sunday, January 9, 2011

Another Quote From The Arizona Incident


I will continue to post these opinion pieces whenever I find them. If this annoys you can always choose not to read them or unfollow me. I am not ready to let this go yet.

I will post these from now on with the same image so that the message gets burned into peoples brains. This is not satire. This is not just appealing to your base - this poster is EVIL.

Hitler's propaganda minister Josef Goebbels would be proud of you Sarah. The cross hairs alone would have impressed him. The only changes he would have made would be to include the faces of the 'enemy' on the poster before adding the bulleyes.

Mr. Dupnik called the shooting a “very sad day for Tucson” and a “horrendous, horrendous, senseless, unbelievable crime.” And then he blamed the crime on the rhetoric — presumably political rhetoric — in the country.

“When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government,” he said. “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”

Mr. Dupnik said it is time for the country to “do a little soul searching.”

He added: “The vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business … This has not become the nice United States that most of us grew up in.”

Later, he said: “It’s not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included. That’s the sad thing about what’s going on in America: pretty soon we’re not going to be able to find reasonable decent people willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.”

6 comments:

Megan said...

Prepare to repel boarders. But you wouldn't really throw us out in the cold. Would you? Remember, we're carrying a copy of The Original Huckleberry Finn with us.

Sigh.

Running away is not the answer.

My mom likes to talk about the sixties. As far as I can tell, all the sixties ever did for us was to make it okay to have sex without being married.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Kal said...

Nothing wrong with that at all especially if you travel to the tundra to do it.

Don't get me started on the n-word nonesense.

Sam G said...

"pretty soon we’re not going to be able to find reasonable decent people willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.”
That quote really sticks with me. Sad state of affairs.

Kal said...

I think that is already happening Sam. Just look at the quality of tea party candidates from last year's election.

Megan said...
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DrGoat said...

Hey Megan, I'm probably about the same age of your parents (60)...and the sixties were good for alot more than that. Interest in politics, trying to get along etc. etc.
I'd list some more but I was kinda stoned a lot of the time. Ha Ha