What gets me is that Pat Robertson and many Senators say things like Hollywood movies or video games cause violent behavior but I guess they don’t think they themselves inspire anyone as much as Grand Theft Auto.
The aforementioned pigfuckers hold the concept of rule of law in absolute contempt. They do not see the law as something important or worthwhile - it is merely a tool to gain power in this crowd. Thus the problem with judges - judges are there strictly to enforce the law, and most of them take that duty seriously. And they have powers reserved to them by the Constitution. Thus, the judiciary must be replaced by those who do not hold the law in such high regard.
I seem to remember Dan Savage proposed this usage in one of his columns. Love it!
Back on topic:
My worries here have to do with someone listening to all this yowling, as you put it Veb, from people like Robertson, DeLay and Dobson and feeling justified to commit a violent act. These guys may be on the fringe and it may even be open to debate how much they can enact legislative changes. They do however have people who listen to what they say and take their opinions very seriously. When someone like Robertson compares judges to terrorists and says the judges are the bigger threat to the U.S. of A. and our way of life that very well could encourage some nut job to act out.
Yeah, but it’s misleading to say it was just to watch him die. It’s not like he could hear him or anything.
If a mime falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
So what’s up with the mime meme?
Yes, I have one daughter.
You didn’t get the mime meme memo?
As did Steve Martin, but his excuse was probably the same as Clinton’s and maybe Davis’ but I suspect not the Pope’s, “Well, there was this girl and she was a philosophy major…”
“Well, there was this girl…” is the most common root cause for men’s stupid decisions, including joining the military during wartime. True example from my father: “Well, there was this girl and I spent all my tuition on her at the eWinter Carnival and when my mom asked if I was going to school I had to think fast and said, ‘No, I’m joining the Air Corps,’ because I was more scared of her than the Nazis.” Okay, that makes it a combination of “this girl” and an Irish mother, but the girl had a role.
dropzone, I think that what friend Liberal is getting at is that in a fight between a giant jellyfish with a PHD and a pop-star in a polyester blend jump-suit that you should never shave your shag carpet.
Bullshit. Murder and assassination are hardly new developments in America. I am sorry for Judge Lefkow’s loss, and I wish we could have protected her and her family, but this does not signal any kind of ideological shift in America.
And, no, it’s not Robertson’s fault. It’s not DeLay’s fault. It’s not Santorum’s fault. Not even remotely. They are worthless and depraved human beings, but whatever hateful idiocy they spew out into the world, they didn’t tell anyone to kill her family, and they didn’t pull the trigger.
Note, again, that the killer of Lefkow’s family was a guy who was pissed that his medical malpractice case had been thrown out. He was not an ultra-conservative ideologue getting revenge on those hateful Schaivo-killing judges. Just an asshole who became a murderer. A few weeks ago, when Sen Cornyn mentioned the Lefkow murders as a “warning” to judges who were doing their own thing, the pit was full of people pointing out his dumbassedness because the murders had nothing to do with standard Rebuplican complaints about judges. But now that the argument’s on the other side, it’s clearly related.
I don’t hold Robertson responsible for the Leftkow murders. But he is now, in part, responsible for the image that some hold of the judiciary as being a devious lot of “pro-leftist activisits.”
And Rush Limbaugh is, in part, responsible for Clinton being “sandbagged over a blow job.”
Each of us is somewhat responsible for what we advocate, don’t you think? And the more access we have to the public ear, the more responsibility we must accept.