Have they no shame?

[FCTP]

 

The shooting in Arizona was horrible.  For me the worst part was finding out a 9 year old little girl was a victim of this tragedy.

 

We have watched children gunned down in schools by fellow students; workers in post offices, manufacturing plants, and other businesses killed by co-workers or disgruntled former employees; school board members shot by an angry parent; and men in military uniform gunned down on military facilities by a religious zealot.  And, of course,  thousands of people were killed by those who hate America on December 7 and September 11.   

 

America is full of wonderful, loving people who will go out of their way to help others.

 

America also has pockets of those who are insane, mentally unbalanced or just plain mean-spirited.

 

As long as we live in an imperfect world, we will have these pockets of individuals who will take down innocent lives to prove something or because something in their head said to do it.

 

All those injured or killed in this incident were innocent.  They did not deserve to die or be injured on a beautiful Saturday morning at the local grocery store.  They came to shop or they came to hear their Congresswoman in the local public square that she and her staff set up.   America was at its best on Saturday morning as a beautiful Congresswoman waited to listen to her constituents while the cash register rang up groceries and other families shopped. This is America and the act of a crazy young man should not impact the greatness of the public square or the greatness of its message of freedom.

 

There are many out there who should be ashamed of themselves for politicizing this event.  Because it was a public official's event, the media and many individuals and groups have run with misinformation and misguided conversations.  Their conversations, emails and statements are almost as dangerous as the young man who pulled the trigger.  The accusations are unfounded and hurtful to the truth.

 

The Sunday morning news shows were filled with conversations that did not focus on the insane gunman - but instead laid seeds of doubt about the tea party movement, radio show hosts and right leaning politicians.  This is a tactic that changes the conversation and creates hype, ratings and anger. 

 

Where have the world-class journalists gone?  Where are those who would never report before they had the facts? 

 

Why is that important?  Because the truth will set us free.  The media was in charge of finding the truth when government bureaucrats and politicians tried to hide it.  The media was the watchdog for the down and out.  The media was the ones who gave ALL Americans a voice...not just the ones they or their benefactors wanted them to speak or print.

 

It's one thing to have the media slant political discussions.  It is another thing to plant seeds about groups or individuals for this heinous act without any basis of reality, research or journalist integrity. 

 

As the week begins, many funerals will take place - including that of a 9 year old little girl.  Those who were injured will be fighting for their lives.  We will watch the reports and the networks and print media to see how they handle the news.  We will no longer tolerate the twisted conversations.  Those who died or are fighting for their lives deserve respect and dignity of reporting the truth and anything less would be SHAMEFUL.   

 

God bless the families of these victims.  Please continue to pray for them as they go about the hard task of burying their loved ones or sitting by their bedside praying for their recovery.

 

Please listen to the father of the precious little girl who died yesterday.  What a marvelous man he is and my heart breaks for his loss.

 

[John Harvel]

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. H.L. Mennken

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. Milton Friedman

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. Thomas Sowell

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. Adolf Hitler

[Lyndee]

Fox's and all the other stations ratings must be sky high. Seems they cancelled all programming and called in the weekday anchors. You'd have thought it was comparable to 9/11 they way they've been covering it. You would almost think no one else was shot, much less killed the way they focus on the Senator. We know almost nothing about the rest of people who actually were killed with the exception of the 9 year old girl (ratings). Of couse the glanced over the judge & the staffer. They barely mentioned the "little people" (the elderly victioms) whom after all weekend we still know nothing about.

In a way I blame it on lack of planning. Security should have been in place for a public event (even the Tea Parties make sure there is security at events).

Time to join the NRA. They're going to need more lobbyists.  

[Ernest N. Mulich]

No one has mentioned Political Correctness as a factor in this crime. There was plenty of forewarning from the individual that pulled the trigger, yet no law enforcement bothered to investigate. The spokeswomen from Florida was quick to point fingers at everyone except her constituents that support Political Correctness.

[Rosemarie Brenneman]

As I heard the news on Saturday the hairs on the back of my neck rose, especially after hearing the Sheriff's biased comments. 

His insinuations and innuendos were too much considering the reality of Arizona.  The fact that numerous citizens have been victims of violent crime perpetrated by illegals and that the Tea Party peacefully demonstrated in support of Arizona's sovreignty seemed to be totally overlooked.

This was not a political act ( the young man read both Marx and Mein Kampf so who do you blame?).  This was an act of insanity!

I, too, listened to the pundits try and lay the blame on the Conservative talk show hosts, the Tea Party, and the Republicans but all I could see was them trying to shift the focus of our current national conversation and neutralize the Conservative agenda by trying to lay responsibility on us, Sarah Palin, and the election.

The Tea Party, as I see it, has primarily a fiscal focus although, there are many like myself, me being a Catholic Christian, who are also socially Conservative....pro life. What we are fighting for is our God given rights and our Country.

We cannot be cowed in our efforts or intimidated by those who would deride and mangle our message. We have been peaceful and law abiding in our efforts and have no responsibility for this incident. 

Our anger, as we watch the Country's demise due to taxation, over spending, and intrusion of individual and states' rights, is justified.  We owe no apologies. We must continue in our action to set things right! 

[L.C. Williams]

Well that was quick. Prayers for the affected families. Heads high people, this one ain't us.

 

One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47338.html#ixzz1AbPfSMph

[Roy G Callahan]

Bless your heart. Well said. Thank you for saying it.

[FCTP]

God bless him.   What a wonderful husband.

[Mike S]

Not only does the media want to put blame on this horrendous event on conservative talk show hosts and groups like the Tea Party but they want to bring up the subject of gun control.   Billie, you are so right when you say we must pay close attention to what's being said on the radio, TV, and also the print media since they are indeed shameless.  As the current administration says "let's let no crisis go to waste" and this will be no exception.

 

Mike

[Wayne Leeper]

This has not been reported except by local media that I am aware of.  I received it in an e-mail from a very close and reliable friend.

“By now most folks with internet or radio or TV News probably know that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot this morning in Tucson at a community event at a Safeway grocery store.  Current reports have at least 10 people wounded in this tragedy.  Among the dead a 9 year old child, and a federal judge.

What is not in the news yet is that among the dead is 76 year old Dorwin Stoddard who threw himself in front of his wife Mavy to keep her from being shot.  She was wounded in her legs.  Dorwin was a member of the church of Christ.