Valerie Tarico has written a blog that sums up how I feel about my home, Colorado, being shot up once again by a mentally Unhinged human being who has been influenced by the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth Republican leaders and spokespeople...
After months of verbal assault against Planned Parenthood and against women more broadly, Republican Christianists have gotten what they were asking for—bloodshed.
On November 27, a mass shooting left three dead and nine wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic just miles from the headquarters of the Religious Right flagship, Focus on the Family. Was the shooting exactly what conservative Christian presidential candidates and members of congress wanted? Maybe, maybe not. But it is what they asked for.Republican members of the Religious Right incited violence as predictably as if they had issued a call for Christian abortion foes to take up arms. Inciting violence this way is called stochastic terrorism:
“Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.”
In an incident of stochastic terrorism, the person who pulls the trigger gets the blame. He—I use the male pronoun deliberately because the triggerman is almost always male—may go to jail or even be killed during his act of violence. Meanwhile, the person or persons who have triggered the triggerman, in other words, the actual stochastic terrorists, often go free, protected by plausible deniability. The formula is perversely brilliant…
Please take the time to read what she has to say. We must call out the Republicansne for the hate they create.
As human beings we each have our own set of religious beliefs/non-beliefs. When one group or sect decides that theirs is the only way and everyone else must adhere or die, we have a major problem. The right-wingers today have chosen the path of forcing their religion down everyone else’s throats and we must stop this now. It is our responsibility to protect our country from the religious minority who think their way must be your way or you should just die.
I am not talking about Muslims. I am talking about Christian Dominionists — the ones who believe in the Kingdom of Jesus. Not a democracy, a Kingdom. This is treason at the highest level. These religious zealots have infiltrated nearly every inch of our federal apparatus. [See the Military Religious Freedom Foundations’ inbox if you don't believe me... www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/...]
Yesterday it was Colorado Springs. Will it be in your backyard tomorrow?