[img]583|left|Eric L. Wattree||no_popup[/img]Date: Jan. 26, 2011
Name: Caroline Miniscule
Subject: Is Sarah Palin more dangerous than the average guy in the ‘hood?
Comment: I don’t think so.
“If you read all the information that is coming out about the loon who attempted to murder Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, you find out he was mentally unstable for some time. He could just as easily have been set off by watching a WWF wrestling commercial, that shows steroid-pumped guys stomping people on the ground, breaking chairs over peoples' back, and so on. Or he could have been listening to rap music, which disses women and it advocates the killing of police officers.”
My response:
Caroline,
You’re being either disingenuous or incredibly naive.
The fiscal conservatives (the corporatists) are using their army, the social conservatives (or social bigots), to gain control over this country by any means necessary — and that includes insurrection. By failing to speak out against this tactic, Obama is allowing these factions to insert fascist rhetoric into the national debate, a tactic designed to both desensitize the American people to the thought of political violence and to provide the GOP with plausible deniability.
You indicated that the “loon” who committed the shooting was mentally unstable. So he could have gone after anyone. But he didn't. On his way to commit his crime, he was stopped by a police officer whom he could have killed but didn’t. He passed by several locations closer to his home where he could have killed people, but he didn’t. He went directly to a Democratic function to commit this crime.
Yes, he was unstable. But that is exactly who the corporatists are trying to incite with their inflammatory rhetoric to commit their crimes. Just since your comment California Gov. Jerry Brown, has been threatened with a specific day that he’s going to be killed. In Seattle, a bomb was planted along the path of the Martin Luther King Day parade route. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
I’d also like to take a moment to debunk the myth being widely spread by the corporate media that even mentioning the Nazis in response to what is going on in America is irresponsible and beyond the pale. That is total nonsense. It is in direct contradiction to another adage that states that a crazy person is one who does the same thing over and over again and expects a different result. Thus, the media is literally asking us to be crazy.
Demanding we never mention Nazi tactics means we ignore the experience gained from the most horrific period in world history. This assumes there never will be another group comparable to the Nazis in the future. What if a contemporary force in the nation is comparable to the Nazis? What should we do? Ignore them?
On its face, the adage is stupid. The only reason we have accepted it is that we are being reprogrammed out of our common sense and away from being independent thinkers. We actually should be asking ourselves:
1) Who is promoting this nonsense?
2) What is their motive?
3) What methods are they using to get us to sheepishly buy into it?
Let me save time by answering for you.
International corporatists are promoting the idea to take over the United States political system. Systemically, they are reprogramming us by destroying our educational system. Then they use their corporate media to whisper in our ear from the time we wake up in the morning until the second we go to bed at night —through television programming, commercials, entertainment media, our politicians, even our brainwashed peers.
In answer to the question posed, yes, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and many others are very much more dangerous than the average guy in the ‘hood. President Obama’s reluctance to speak out against them is clear evidence of that.
It is appropriate to recall Dr. Martin Luther King’s comments at the memorial of an Alabama church bombing:
“These children — unoffending, innocent and beautiful — were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.”
Eric L. Wattree is a writer, poet and musician, born in Los Angeles. A columnist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Black Star News, a staff writer for Veterans Today, he is a contributing writer to Your Black World, the Huffington Post, ePluribus Media and other online sites and publications. He also is the author of “A Message From the Hood.”
Mr. Wattree may be contacted at wattree.blogspot.com or Ewattree@Gmail.com
Religious bigotry: It’s not that I hate everyone who doesn’t look, think, and act like me – it’s just that God does.
