printI venture that it is not speech that dangerously inflames febrile passions and unstable minds, but Orwellian speech; lies that belie reality. A good example are the words of the by-now notorious and odious Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, the Democrat who called Arizona a “Mecca for prejudice and bigotry”—the right-wing kind, naturally. Dupnik has now come out and said that “We see one party trying to block the attempts of another party to make this a better country.”
Ignore, for a moment, the fact that both parties have made the country worse. Consider: How many generations of young people can you raise on Big Lies—the kind that teach that taking from Peter to lavish on Paul at the point of a gun creates a “better country”? That central planning, the kind that crippled the USSR, will make for a “better” USA? That bankruptcy is verboten if you are a private citizen, but quite fine if you are The State; that borrowing money you don’t intend to repay to finance welfare and warfare in perpetuity is for the “better”; that an OPD (Outstanding Public Debt) equaling your GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is good. And that the larger the parasite (government) the healthier the host (the private economy).
Sooner or later the bumpercrops of rudderless dullards we raise in our public schools will become confused and “crazy.” Jared Lee Loughner used grammar and language as metaphors for his mindlessness. After all, the words the society around him transmitted conflicted with the reality he observed. You could say that he was exposed to schizophrenogenic interactions on an ongoing basis.
Whoever said that what we commonly call insanity is a sane response to an insane situation had a point.
It is not the freedom of speech, but the perversion of speech and the inversion of morality that encourage “madness” and mayhem.
All this doesn’t mean that “crazies” that kill are not fully aware of right and wrong: they are.
We are all exposed to what I’ve described. And we are all free to determine how we react to this distorted discourse; namely to the discrepancy between words and what they actually describe.
The American people’s anger will dissipate rather quickly when parasitic socialist idiots stop pushing policies that pose an existential threat to what little remains of American liberty and to the physical and financial security of their children.
Shouldn’t an elected sheriff dwell on booking drunks and monitoring registered sex offenders-instead of serving as a consigliere to Minitrue?
“odious Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, the Democrat who called Arizona a “Mecca for prejudice and bigotry”—the right-wing kind, naturally.” Is it just me or is it true that the only local politicians that criticize their local government in favor of the Federales are Democrats. A love for big brother perhaps.