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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 05:27:11 AM MST
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Kathy Kattenburg explains better than me why motive is irrelevant in the Sparkman murder:
Now, these details still do not tell us whether Starkman was killed because he was a Census worker, or whether he was killed because, in the course of doing his Census work, he happened to come upon an illegal activity. But they do make it crystal clear that Starkman's killers wanted him to be found like that. Which means - obviously - that this was a message killing. It was a political statement - an act of terrorism....
It's irrelevant whether Sparkman's murderer(s) were meth dealers or government-haters. Either way, Bill Sparkman was killed because he was, as the message on his body crudely proclaimed, a "fed." And whether his killers were fans of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, or not; whether they knew that a member of Congress had declared her proud intention to violate federal law and encouraged others to do so, or not; whether they had picked up on the Republican Party's many, many anti-government "hate minutes," or not, does not mitigate the dangerous and irresponsible game that conservative public figures, lawmakers, and prominent bloggers/pundits are playing when they go beyond criticizing specific political figures or particular political viewpoints, and start to attack government itself, along with the very notion of public service. Public discourse is increasingly shaped by the voices of those we elected to make government work for us - all of us - refusing to support the public process they swore to uphold, and actually making it their task to destroy government from within, to tear it down and put it down and have us believe that good government is a joke and government institutions a source of evil and danger, such that violating the law is an act of patriotism. And when they do this, they are responsible - for implicitly condoning and encouraging hatred, for stirring the embers and for fanning the flames and for the "unintended" and "unfortunate" consequences when, as flames do, they burn out of control - for being, in Natalie Cole's exquisite words, "silver tongues bearing fruit from poison lies."
In short, those that spent their rainy-day savings to send Robert Stacy McCain to Kentucky to prove - what, exactly? Sparkman's killers love their government? don't watch Glenn Beck? - have wasted their money.
Update: Unbelievable. From the same folks who froth at the mouth about jumping to conclusions, etc & co. Completely classless and disrespectful. |
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