Posts Tagged ‘Gabrielle Giffords’
Notebook, 18 January 2011: My Moment of Silence is Over
Apart from one post regarding the false equivalence evident in the commentary of the Tucson shootings, I’ve thought hard about the political climate, and my (hopefully) minuscule contribution to its tone.
And I can’t escape the conclusion that, even as I decried the violent rhetoric of the right, I helped contribute to the incivility. Even in that post, where I twice tried to make the case that what the right was doing equated to terrorist rhetoric.
Not that my point was entirely off base.
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Notebook, 9 January 2010: Tucson Shootings and False Equivalence . . .
A lot has already been said about yesterday’s shootings in Tuscon, Arizona, about mentally imbalanced individuals bearing arms, the Virginia Tech shootings, about the culpability of Daily Kos, and lots here about the state of political rhetoric.
At least one new fact has emerged since last night: Congresswoman Giffords was specifically targeted. This makes it a political assassination attempt, by definition an act of terrorism:
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
