I'll accept the fact that the AZ shooter was mentally unstable...

[rfranklin]

and was egged on by the inflammatory rhetoric of the Teabaggers, Palin and Sharon Angle to use his Second Amendment remedies. It doesn't matter what his delusional political beliefs were. Their outrageous statements were the gasoline poured on the fire.

[Th1onein]

1. I agree.

eom

[CanonRay]

2. 2/3 of the Teabaggers are mentally unstable

why do you think they are teabaggers in the first place.

[Tesha]

4. "Why are they teabaggers?"

There's an obvious punch line here, but I'm no longer in
a humourous-enough frame of mind to make it. We've
entered into a whole new* realm of politics.

Tesha


*New for America, not new for many other parts of our world.

[rfranklin]

7. Teabagging is a sexual act of...

taking your partners scrotum into your mouth. The Teabaggers adopted that name before they knew what it meant.

[upi402]

3. Because he was ill - does NOT absolve the media and the RW inciters to violence

I get sick of people giving them a pass cuz he was mentally ill.

[rfranklin]

9. Thank you...that was my point...

Fox News and other MSM are spinning that no one is responsible because this guy was mentally ill. I beg to differ.

[htuttle]

5. Has there even been a (non-profit) political assassin who wasn't deranged?

Oswald, Booth, Hinckley, Bremer, Squeaky Fromme, etc... All of them could be characterized as 'unstable' or 'unbalanced'.

Stable people don't usually kill politicians. Unless they're getting paid to do it, political assassins are disturbed by definition.

[Strelnikov_]

10. "political assassins are disturbed by definition"

Exactly. If someone has the money to pay for an assassination, they hire a professional. Plane crash, car crash, 'heart attack', or the traditional silenced bullet in the back of the head while unlocking the car door at night.

Wonder how many others would have died if Sirhan Sirhan had a Glock with a thirty round clip.

[stray cat]

6. Anger at brainwashing through words written on currency - not really a political stance

[rfranklin]

11. Except that "In God We Trust" gets right wingers into a poo-flinging mood...

For instance--

The issue: "In God We Trust" was taken off the new $1 coin without nary a question to we the people.
The Response: REFUSE THE NEW COINS - just ask for a dollar bill instead.

This simple action will make a strong statement.
Please help do this... Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you.

A freind received one from the Post Office as change and asked for a dollar bill instead.
The lady just smiled and said 'way to go' , so she had read about this too. There is an e -mail circulating with this message as well.

Please help out...our world is in enough trouble without this too! PASS IT ON !!

http://www.teapartyofwmi.org/forum/topics/in-god-we-trust-taken-off-new?commentId=3249824%3AComment%3A57305

[bettyellen]

16. except it is a stance of many many Libertarians and Tea Pary members

[tekisui]

17. Anti-government libertarianism is though.

[Strelnikov_]

8. Agree. Appears he was unstable. Most assassins through history could be considered 'unstable'.

Point is, with the discourse pushed by the Republican Party, demonize and divide, it is lighting a match under individuals like the shooter.

With everything Republican, if they spin one way, the truth is in other direction.

[HereSince1628]

14. Why is unstable important? n/t

[Strelnikov_]

15. ? n/t

Easily swayed/manipulated.

Trouble differentiating between 'throw-away' political rhetoric ('Obama is anti-American') and reality.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. See this meme

That he was mentally unstable, deranged, whacky, unreasonable . . . Explains to me the entire Teapublican Mentality. Now we know how they operate and what speaks to them.

[Faryn Balyncd]

13. agree with both your points

K&R

[rgbecker]

18. We need to have a talk with the second guy. Did he drive the shooter to the mall?

Its been thought of before. Find the deranged to do your bidding. The Terrorists game plan from the start has been the recruiting of young crazies for suicide missions. For that matter the US Army's plan has always been to recruit the young idealists and send them to the front.

[cali]

19. now that I can agree with.