{"id":3794,"date":"2011-01-09T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2011-01-09T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T05:48:00","slug":"what-happens-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/what-happens-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens now"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what happens now? A politician got a bullet in the brain. A federal judge got dead. A wonderful little girl<\/a> had her future blown away. Innocents dead and wounded all over the place. And as usual, bystanders<\/a> did what needed doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And never mind that the shooter was a well known loon<\/a> with a long history of weird behavior<\/a>. Even those elitists who have enough grace to admit that the young jerk’s politics were a devil’s brew of left, right, and total nonsense are sure the real<\/i> cause is uncivil “right-wing” rhetoric.<\/a>. Even the local sheriff, making the first public announcements was confident that uncivil rhetoric drove the killer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And guns, of course. It’s always going to be about the gun, in some way or another. But the big bugaboo since 2009’s angry town hall Obamacare meetings has been our supposed incivility toward our masters.<\/p>\n

And none of these people who are blaming these murders on uncivil political rhetoric (without a shred of evidence — and even if evidence existed, who can be held responsible for how words get processed in the brain of a crazy person?) … none of these people are asking if maybe there are damnfine reasons to be uncivil. If, just maybe, the current political incivility isn’t a cause<\/i> of anything, but is a result<\/i>. A result of freedom being ripped away by “representatives” who represent none of us and listen to nothing any of us have to say?<\/p>\n

Gabrielle Giffords might be a good person when she’s not in Congress. I don’t know. She’s pro-gun*, hard-working, and even within the freedomista circle there are people who like and respect her<\/a>. She didn’t deserve a bullet in the head, even if she may deserve a trial for crimes against the rights of free people. <\/p>\n

But how come the elitists, from The New Yorker<\/i> to the Washington<\/i> and Huffington Posts<\/i> never think that we, the unwashed, deserve the civility of being considered worthy of managing our own lives? Why are we not accorded the civility supposedly guaranteed to us by the poor old battered BoR? The civility of being left alone? The civility of living under a few understandable, inviolable precepts? <\/p>\n

So I have two questions for you: Are there reasons to be civil to politicians when they’re so fundamentally uncivil to us and our liberties? (ADDED: And by this I don’t<\/i> mean “should we shoot the bastards?” but only “is there any reason to be polite to them?”) And what do you think happens now? What kind of new laws, what kind of crackdowns?<\/p>\n

That’s one of the many hells of a tragedy like this. You can’t even properly mourn the innocents. Because you know the guiltiest of the guilty will find the most cruel and cynical ways to use all this death and destruction to their own advantage — and it goes without saying, to our disadvantage.<\/p>\n

* Or maybe not so pro-gun; see comments section.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

To counteract some of the outrage and gloom, Jim B. dropped this excellent true story<\/a> into a recent comment section. Great example of freedom — and the e-world — springing into action for one if its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So what happens now? A politician got a bullet in the brain. A federal judge got dead. A wonderful little girl had her future blown away. Innocents dead and wounded all over the place. And as usual, bystanders did what needed doing. And never mind that the shooter was a well known loon with a long history of weird behavior. Even those elitists who have enough grace to admit that the young jerk’s politics were a devil’s brew of left, right, and total nonsense are sure the real cause is uncivil “right-wing” rhetoric.. Even the local sheriff, making the first…<\/p>\n

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