There Are No Politics in Murder
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on
DickMorris.com on January 10, 2011
The conventional wisdom of the media establishment that strident and
outspoken political debate catalyzes violence is an absurdity!
Telling people to "kill pigs" as the sixties radicals did, in fact,
encouraged violence. But vigorous political debate and strongly or
even passionately held views have nothing whatever to do with the
decision of some nut to kill a Congressman or a president.
Fantasies about Jodie Foster, instructions from Son of Sam, or delusions
of omnipotence all can cause violence, but heated political debate
doesn't. To stigmatize strongly articulated opinions on the left
or the right and blame them for the insane attack on Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords is outrageous.
Ft. Hood was an act of political terror. No speech incited
the attacks, but a culture of violence spawned throughout the
Islamic world. The same is true of the shoe bomber, the Detroit
airplane bomber, the Times Square bomber and, indeed, the
terrorists of 9-11.
Neither the left nor the right should confuse political
terrorism with the random insanity of a crazed gunman. The
attack on Giffords had as little to do with ideology as the
attack on the students of Virginia Tech or Columbine High
School.
Daniel Greenfield makes a key point:
There has not been a single act of
Muslim violence in the last two years that the media was willing to
identify as motivated by Islam. Each and every time they had to be
dragged kicking and screaming, past their cover stories, through
groundless claims that the attackers were motivated by psychological
problems, bullying, imaginary medical conditions or financial problems--
to some adjunct of the truth. And at the same time over the last two
years, each prominent act of violence by non-Muslims was followed by an
attempt to identify the attacker or attackers with mainstream
Republicans in a cynical attempt to demonize and criminalize the
political opposition.
But what if the killer had been a political conservative? What if
he had attended Tea Party rallies or - for that matter - been active in
Moveon.org or a left-leaning union? Would the killings have made
the movement fair game? Would it be right to cast aspersions on
tens of millions of nonviolent citizens exercising their democratic
rights in the name of discouraging violence?
Since the shootings, I have gotten e mails from the BBC and Sky TV in
the UK and Der Spiegel in Germany requesting interviews. How much
they would like to link conservative opinions with the attempted
assassination of a Congresswoman! Suddenly, they are all ears.
But their attempts at linking this insane killer to any political
movement are ridiculous and preparatory to an abridgement of free
speech.
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