My sincrest condolences go out to the family of Stephen Tyrone Johns. There are people in this world whom simply lose themselves and innocent victims are the ones receiving the bad end of that stick.
I also ask, that in midst of everything else happening, that we do not forget the brave lives of the three police officers whose lives were taken April 4 in Pittsburgh and the four police officers that were fatally shot March 21 in Oakland, California.
One of my first thoughts when I saw this on the news today, was when the right loses ballots, it resorts to bullets. Well, guess it's time to round up all of these domestic terrorists and 'question' them. This is what happens when you put politics over country. Egg all over their faces.
It was just a matter of time before the feeble minds of hate lost it. Gay rights, abortion rights, and now a black President appears to be more than they can take. Home Land Secetary hit it right on the nose. All that's left to wonder is what the right wing will have to say now.
Enough is enough, there is no leg to stand on here for the Republicans. Now you have many people that are dead and we're still not calling THESE guys terrorists. Why not? Because they worship the same gods as the Republican party? A quick news-flash, terrorists don't always worship the Koran, they sometimes worship the bible also. This is the kind of stuff that happens when you have a political party who doesn't operate based on facts and reality.
And on top of the fatal shooting, we have the DHS Secretary caving in and apologizing for DOING HER JOB. Janet Napolitano deserves more than an apology. Janet was right on the money here, and yet she is the one apologizing and taking the fall. Pathetic. Republican Conservatives who called for the resignation of Janet Napolitano should apologize to her right now! It's important to remember that DHS was one of the things Republicans opposed after 9/11; they KNEW their supporters were well-armed and unbalanced.
This is not just about anti-Semitism, this is about anti-whatever. To incite and create hate by crying out anti-whatever slogans of any kind is potentially dangerous. Just like the Dr. Tiller abortion case, this mindless attempted killing must be condemned no matter its justification. This is the real war on terror, a war against psychological brainwashing of people as pawns to commit violence against any group of people. The people behind this incitement and manipulation must be exposed for what they are, murderers.
Now the far right fringe is starting do physical violence on people they do not like and I wonder why they waited until B. Obama was President. Nothing has changed except him and so now they want the country to evolve into violence which is insane to say the least. We are all American Citizens who wants the best for ourselves through hard work and worship. Our political system causes us to do a random walk to the end point and hopefully we all will be happy at the end of the day.
And what is Fox going to say about this one? The same thing they have been saying since 11/4/08, "It's all Obama's fault." These are the kind of people that Fox News and the GOP appeal to. The 22 million that want to make life a nightmare for the rest of the normal people. 1st the abortion doctor is a killer! They applauded him. Now this! Well Fox & GOP what do you have for us next?
The people of this country voted for change and we have gotten nothing but antagonizing input from the Republicans. They have bashed President Obama since and before his swearing in as the 44th President. I wasn't a Bush fan and I know and remember vividly that I wanted him to succeed in his job because ithe quality of his performance was to affect my well being as a citizens.
This is nothing more than a Republican National Christians Conservative Crusade against America. Republicans are reactive instead of proactive. First they ignore the report on attacks on 911, after it happened they promote the War on Terror. Now they ignore the report on domestic terrorism and IT, too happened. See a pattern.? Being reactive will ALWAYS puts one in the defensive. Meaning being attacked over and over and over again. Who's it hurting? The people; more specifically those that work hard and just want a peaceful life. They are already trying to blame the shooting on President Obama. They are saying it was in reaction to his Cairo speech. What we think and what we know is that the people in this country are in more danger from right wing terrorists than they are of any foreign terrorist.
I fear much more of this to come. The Holocaust didn't happen overnight. It was a result of fear of fear-mongering and manipulation over a period of years, and we are failing to learn the lessons of the past. Not only are Jews in danger, but Muslims, immigrants, and others as well; anyone who doesn't fit into the box that a small group of sickos deem "American." Dissent is American, and that's what makes us great, but when people express their dissent with guns instead of activism and the ballot box, we are all in trouble. We all, from politicians to journalists to the American people must return to civil debate and the desire to solve the many problems we face.
Just remember, they don't dislike you because you don't do your job well enough. Not because you don't try to support your family well enough. Not even because you have your own opinion. Their problem is that your opinion is not THEIR opinion. And maybe not even that, deep down under all of the politics, the mastermind behind all of this is Religion. They dislike you because you are not religious. Or maybe not that you're not religious, but you aren't 'their' religious.
When it comes right down to it, what has happened here is simple: Extremist Christian terrorists hit the US again. Religion is the single greatest evil in the world today. All faiths attack again. We should do what we can to push faith out of our social conscious. If this were done that would be one less thing around to make us different from our fellow countrymen.
It is definitely time for the U.S. to face its sordid past, it's time to have that long awaited truth commission, time to discuss the fact that terrorism is prevelent in the nation, although we don't have car bombs and suicide bombers yet, we need to face our problems and route out these types before we do. Capitalism in an the effort to pit different groups against each other while those in power divide and conquer and continue to rule needs to take a hard look at itself before it's too late.
What is up with America? Why is there another senseless killing? When will it stop. The other day was just about the abortion doctor murder. Now it's hatred killing. First the wingers criticized the DHS report, and now they have set out to prove it was 100% correct. Wingers are just beyond comprehension. How many people have to die before they acknowledge that it is something much more systematic than a few looneys?