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I personally feel while the shooting itself may/may not have been politically motivated, that Sarah Palin and perhaps those responsible for Tea Party rhetoric, should be slapped w/ a civil suit. I've long had issues w/ the litigious nature of the US in general, but this presents itself as the perfect opportunity to take advantage of it. No responsible public figure should be allowed to put someone in crosshairs, as if they are being targeted by a gun. And for those who feel the anti-Tea Party sentiment is unjustified, then why was the crosshairs picture removed immediately afterwards? If those whom placed it there were ok w/ the connations it bore when originally placed, unless they feel some twinge of responsibility, there should be no reason to remove it. This is not a Conservative vs. Liberal Arguement.. this is an issue of civility, and what the Tea Party has demonstrated time and time again, is its inability to reign in its fringe members to adhere to a sense of decency. Incidents like these should show the Left and the Right why Palin and her fervent followers should be dismissed from public service and shipped off somewhere. Let the Dems, Reps and Inds fight it out with words and campaign commercials, cause if fanatics are willing to gun down decent-looking white women, then Obama better step up his security now.(I really worry for him sometimes
But we can blame her for using overly aggressive Cold War rhetoric without thought for the potential implications. It's fairly plain that she didn't have anything to do this (though if I had a political hitlist, the first thing I'd do it make sure my assassins came from the opposite end of the political spectrum to me - especially if I was going after people I considered to be "traitors" to my cause), but what it does make plain is that she's not really fit to be in any position of power. People who have genuine power have no need to be afraid. It's the people with control that you want to keep an eye on, because they'll only ever wants more. Palin's unfortunate rhetoric has (to me at least, though I'm not American) demonstrated that she doesn't want people living in their America. She wants people living in her America, and she'll resort to fear-mongering to do it. Australian politics can be bitchy at times; nobody is better at running a scare campaign than the Liberal party. Or so I thought - but then I started seeing ads from America where the Tea Party had superimposed Obama's face over an image of Death. That's pretty much despicable.
This isn't the place for that.
