The Violence In Tuscon

"One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."       Martin Luther King Jr.

Ann Coulter being herself

Begin with Ann Coulter in 2006 joking that "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," because of his "liberal leaning" plus her book calling all liberals godless and her stunning "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too." at her Jan 2002 address before the Conservative Political Action Conference or psychotic hatemonger Glen Beck's 2009 joking about putting poison in Nancy Pelosi's wine and O'Reilly on his high horse hammering the name "Tiller the baby-killer" spurring murder to the paragon of Christ-like gun-toting-virtue Sarah "Tea Bagger" Palin with her infamous targets on 20 key problems that included Gabriel Giffords district and her tweet "don't retreat, reload" to Byron Williams citing Glen Beck's rantings against the ACLU and Tides Foundation (at least 29 rantings against Tides) spurred his desire to start a revolution when he was stopped by police and began a shoot out.

Gabriel Gifford said it best in November 2010: "Sarah Palin's list has a gun sight over our district. They have to realize there are consequences to that."  

Now Gabriel (Arizona's first Jewish Congresswoman, married to a US Navy Captain and Astronaut and volunteer in Katrina relief ground efforts) is fighting to stay alive in a hospital after a bullet went through her brain.  Congratulations Sister Sarah, you got your wish - "problem" solved I guess.

Washington Post headline:

Tucson shooting reported globally as evidence of charged U.S. political climate

The commentators are, rightly so, calling out all these people with their Fox "news" programs or syndicated columns for their role in this incident and Dr. Tiller's murder.  The far right is already crying fowl for pointing to them.

But I am calling out every single individual who watches Fox "news", reads or listens to anything of Ann Coulter or equally vile Michelle Malkin, and for every single person who voted Republican or supports Tea Party "anger".  You are the one responsible for this shooting - the blood of 9 year old Christina Green is on your hands as well as the other five lives and 14 injured.

The violence has been just below the surface when you have signs claiming the solution to gay marriage with two nooses and you, the people weren't outraged.  

The violence was ready to spill over when Dr. Tiller was gunned down in his own church and my 60-something church going neighbor could only say "But he killed children" without any feeling for his family.  Without any empathy or sympathy whatsoever.

The violence was at the boiling point when guns were openly at Tea Party rallies and when Arizona pastor, Steven Anderson, reportedly gave a sermon in which he publicly asserted he was praying for President Barack Obama to die and go to hell.  And the logical result that Chris Broughton, after hearing pastor Anderson’s shocking prayers in his sermon, he showed up at the President Obama’s appearance the next day with an assault rifle and a hand gun.
 

But in all of this you, the American people haven't been shocked and appalled - no, you voted those "angry" tea party candidates as leaders, you voted in candidates who want to tear this country further apart.

No.  These deaths and injures and hate are ALL on your heads.

THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL