Tuesday After

A tragedy occurred in Tucson on Saturday. An individual, for reasons yet to be fully revealed, took it upon himself to launch a senseless attack on his Congressional representative. Sadly the usual suspects jumped on the bandwagon of blame with little, actually no, evidence to support their claims.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann opined

If the TEA Party leaders who took out of context a Jefferson quote about blood and tyranny and the tree of liberty do not understand, do not understand tonight now what that really means and these leaders do not tell their followers to abhor violence and all threat of violence then those TEA Party leaders must be repudiated by the Republican party. If Glenn Beck who obsesses nearly as…

You get the picture. Then there is the financial visionary at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, who would like us to understand the utter disregard for human life from the right.

We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target….You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead.

Again, you get the picture. From such luminaries of the collectivist left this is daily pabulum for their committed masses. It neither addresses an issue nor presents a solution, other than the limitation of free speech unless they approve of the material (read fairness doctrine or Net Neutrality). These are the tactics used by every oppressive regime of the last century. These individuals are background noise to an increasingly enlighten public. Their message falls on deaf ears.

How should we react when it is a public official speaking in his official capacity? Do we allow such rhetoric without consequence? We appear to have two instances where outspoken public officials provided their insight without facts to support their positions. Bill Pascrell (D, NJ-8) opined

“There’s an aura of hate and elected politicians feed it, certain people on Fox News feed it”

Is he blaming himself and Fox News or just Fox News? The worst, in my opinion, are the statements given by Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in his official capacity durning a news conference.

When you look at unbalanced people and how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. And the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately Arizona, I think, has sort of become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

Sadly no evidence was provided to support this position and it was later revealed in an interview with Fox’s Megyn Kelly that the comment was his own opinion.

We have come to expect such short sighted rhetoric from Congress. In the case of Mr. Pascrell we can only hope his district finally wakes up to his limited reasoning skills. Sheriff Dupnik on the other hand should be looked at with greater scrutiny. The Sheriff is in a position of public trust. He is charged with approaching all situations bias free. Clearly he is lacking in this department. Will his tainted free speech bias possibly affect how TEA Party assemblies or Constitutional education seminars are treated? We can hope not but the voters may want to take another look at a man that has the ultimate power over their immediate freedom. I certainly could not support an individual with such obvious bias. This was a tragedy carried out by a disturbed mind. That is what appears to have been revealed to date. Let us move forward with facts and tell our public officials to do the same.

H/T Noisy Room.net