FFS

[cinema_babe]

Some prosecutor needs to step up to the plate and begin charging anyone who maintains anything called a "Hit List" or anything that even vaguely seems to allude to the injury or killing of a person or people with murder or conspiracy.

Come down on them with the wrath Judgment Day; no mercy. Sell all of their assets and half of their joint asses if they have a spouse/partner and give that money to the surviving victims and the survivors of the dead.

And start with Sarah Palin.

The freedom to disagree with someone is a guaranteed right. As is the freedom to be offensive, rude, disparaging, petty, mean, ignorant and a whole host of other unpleasant manifestations of human behavior. However, the right to effectively paint a bulls eye on your opponents' is as good as taking the gun into your hands and pulling the trigger or setting off the bomb. It's depriving people who might disagree with you of *their* First Amendment right through the use of fear and it is not only murder

It's fucking Un-American.

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

To put this in cinematic terms, as befits your moniker, I implore you to have the presence of mind to be Luke, rather than Anakin. In context, although Palin is guilty of much inflammatory rhetoric at other time, the supposed hit list is relatively benign. If you see past your own anger and look at it from the perspective of her political operation, not only is it reasonable to see it as intended symbolically, it's pretty far-fetched to see it any other way. Nor do I think it at all likely that the assassin was motivated by it, even if he was motivated by actual talk of non-symbolic violence by those such as Sharron Angle.

If it has more credibility coming from someone else, see the Olbermann clip I posted for what I think is the correct response.

[1cmf.livejournal.com]

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