Isn't What Happened in Arizona Media-Fed Bigoted White ChristianTerrorism?

[kpete]

Isn't What Happened in Arizona Media-Fed Bigoted White Christian Male Terrorism?
Submitted by mark karlin on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 7:05pm.

* Guest Commentary

MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT

Where does one start in the wake of the political killing spree that occurred in Arizona on Saturday?

With John Wilkes Booth putting a bullet into the head of Abraham Lincoln?

With the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy?

With the shooting of Martin Luther King?

The right-wing culture of hate and implicit coded call to kill the enemy, as if on a mission from God, is a subset of our larger national culture of violence.

From our policy of maintaining superpower status through wars and coups to going back to the conquest of America by the slaughter of Native Americans, we have had a history of a large segment of our population that views violence as a remedy for personal and political grievances - as well as the fulfillment of ideological goals. For them, "putting down your enemy" is as American as apple pie.

the rest:
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12194

[Tunkamerica]

1. except he wasn't christian, in fact was anti-religious

[pipoman]

2. No, it is one isolated paranoid with a homicidal streak

thats it

[ananda]

3. Wrong.

Loughner was a mentally disturbed guy fueled by righting ideas and hatespeech.

Two interconnected problems exist here: a society that allows mentally disturbed
people to roam free and own guns without getting help; and a media fueled by
rightwing hatespeech.

[cbc5g]

4. +1 .. Tea partyers don't read books especially not mein kampf and communist manifesto

They also don't favorite flag burnings on youtube and also are mostly christian.

This guy was a psychotic nut and I blame the doctors/parents

[outerSanctum]

5. .