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Darren Osborne and James T. Hodgkinson were involved in violent attacks on people they did not know.
Darren Osborne, a Wales citizen, shocked his community, by attacking Muslim crowd outside of a London mosque. James T. Hodkinson an American citizen, shocked his community by attacking a Republican senator on a baseball field.
Darren Osborne killed a man, and injured many with a van. James T. Hodgkinson injured two men with a gun. (gsgs comment- His intentions seemed to be, is shoot a corrupt politician in the arse, and a corrupt lobbyist in the foot. They were both rich government insiders.
https://www.boston.com/news/nationa...-the-gunman-who-shot-a-republican-congressman
Darren Osborne survived.
James T. Hodgkinson fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip.
(2015 Facebook post, Hodgkinson shared a political cartoon about Congressman Steve Scalise saying, "Here's a Republican that should lose his job, but they gave him a raise.")
http://www.kbzk.com/story/35671297/...erness-directed-at-rich-republicans-president
Imam Mohammed Mahmoud was hailed for his efforts to calm the chaotic situation in the aftermath of the attack. He was said to have used his body to shield the suspect from the fury of onlookers.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-dad-four-identified-finsbury-13207770
Why Darren Osborne decided to travel and attempt to kill people ? Only he can answer that question. Much has been said about terrorist attacks in the UK. The recent attacks were demonic. Not a zombie suicide march, with a bomb, but deliberate mashing of human bodies, and knife murders with an aim to escape afterwards.
Editorial (No person listed as author of this editorial article)
Both parties owe the nation a more civil political dialogue
After officials confirmed Hodgkinson’s identity, social media profiles emerged that provided hints about potential political motivations for the shooting. He was a supporter Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a writer of letters to his local newspaper supporting Democrats, and a member of a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.” Hodgkinson lived in a St. Louis suburb, but had spent time recently at anti-Trump protests in Washington.
But a person like Hodgkinson doesn’t exist in a vacuum. No single person apart from Hodgkinson is to blame for his actions, but both parties have to commit to a less inflammatory political discourse.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...al-dialogue/jcoKiKtcERgeuloqxAFU9O/story.html
Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican, said Wednesday the political culture driven by the “left” created an environment where violence against elected leaders was possible.
“I don’t know anything about the perpetrator,” said King, referring to the gunman who fired at members of Congress during their baseball practice. “But I do know that America is divided. . . . And the violence is appearing in the streets. And it’s coming from the left.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/pol...ooting-left/Bze7uuF2uNeYf1thSzU0VL/story.html
6/09/2017
Steve King, the unabashed White Nationalist, dares to point a finger at the left-
Rep. Steve King, who recently tweeted that U.S. civilization cannot be restored with “someone else’s babies.”
"Who is somebody else’s babies?” Cuomo asked
"Cuomo tried again, saying, it seems like “you were trying to say ‘someone else’s babies’ means ‘you’re either white or you’re not right.’”
Cuomo, to his credit, tried once more, asking, “A Muslim-American, an Italian-American, a Christian-American, a Jewish-American, you do realize that they are all equal, right? They are all the same thing. We don’t need babies from one of those groups more than we need them from other groups. Do you agree with that?”
King did not say yes. Instead, he paused, swallowed, and said, “Well...” Cuomo pounced on him for hesitating, and King said meekly, “It’s not that simple...”
http://theslot.jezebel.com/gop-rep-steve-king-would-like-to-see-an-america-thats-1793212880
Congressman Steve King is standing by a tweet that was widely condemned as racist.
“I meant exactly what I said,” King told CNN.
Sunday, King tweeted in support of his fellow anti-immigrant demagogue Geert Wilders (who is seeking to become the next Dutch prime minister), praising him as one who “understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
Asked by New Day host Chris Cuomo to defend the comments on Monday, King doubled down on his view that “western civilization” must be defended.
https://thinkprogress.org/steve-king-stands-by-racist-claims-59457bf800ba
What was said after Gabrielle"Gabby" Giffords was almost assassinated-
"Arizona, roiled by the illegal immigration debate, has “become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.’’
This may be true about Arizona, but the shootings could have happened almost anywhere in the United States, given how thoroughly both “lock and load’’-style gun metaphors and the demonization of opponents have saturated the nation’s politics. Even modest differences of opinion are now cast in furious ideological terms. This branding of people and ideas seeks to penetrate casual discourse and shape the impressions of otherwise distracted voters. But because it is so deliberate, this form of branding can also be deliberately avoided. And it must be.
Some innocent colloquialisms about “shooting down’’ proposals or “targeting’’ candidates will slip by. But the red-meat rhetoric — the declarations of revolution, the casual depictions of people as unpatriotic, the brandishing of guns as a symbol of political resistance — should be renounced across the political spectrum.
No political leader or movement should be held responsible for crimes that appear to be Loughner’s alone, and all Americans would benefit from a culture less conducive to the fantasies of unstable minds. Liberals are justified in expressing alarm over the coarsening of the political dialogue. But those who have rushed to blame conservative causes or leaders for the killings should pause and consider whether they, too, are waving a bloody shirt and feeding a culture of denunciation.
The responsibility for maintaining a civil dialogue starts in every home and with every individual.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglo...r_an_old_story_and_a_harsh_political_climate/
June 14, 2017
"Sadly, only the place of liberal and conservative in that sentence has changed."
Darren Osborne, a Wales citizen, shocked his community, by attacking Muslim crowd outside of a London mosque. James T. Hodkinson an American citizen, shocked his community by attacking a Republican senator on a baseball field.
Darren Osborne killed a man, and injured many with a van. James T. Hodgkinson injured two men with a gun. (gsgs comment- His intentions seemed to be, is shoot a corrupt politician in the arse, and a corrupt lobbyist in the foot. They were both rich government insiders.
https://www.boston.com/news/nationa...-the-gunman-who-shot-a-republican-congressman
Darren Osborne survived.
James T. Hodgkinson fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip.
(2015 Facebook post, Hodgkinson shared a political cartoon about Congressman Steve Scalise saying, "Here's a Republican that should lose his job, but they gave him a raise.")
http://www.kbzk.com/story/35671297/...erness-directed-at-rich-republicans-president
Imam Mohammed Mahmoud was hailed for his efforts to calm the chaotic situation in the aftermath of the attack. He was said to have used his body to shield the suspect from the fury of onlookers.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-dad-four-identified-finsbury-13207770
Why Darren Osborne decided to travel and attempt to kill people ? Only he can answer that question. Much has been said about terrorist attacks in the UK. The recent attacks were demonic. Not a zombie suicide march, with a bomb, but deliberate mashing of human bodies, and knife murders with an aim to escape afterwards.
Editorial (No person listed as author of this editorial article)
Both parties owe the nation a more civil political dialogue
After officials confirmed Hodgkinson’s identity, social media profiles emerged that provided hints about potential political motivations for the shooting. He was a supporter Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a writer of letters to his local newspaper supporting Democrats, and a member of a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.” Hodgkinson lived in a St. Louis suburb, but had spent time recently at anti-Trump protests in Washington.
But a person like Hodgkinson doesn’t exist in a vacuum. No single person apart from Hodgkinson is to blame for his actions, but both parties have to commit to a less inflammatory political discourse.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...al-dialogue/jcoKiKtcERgeuloqxAFU9O/story.html
Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican, said Wednesday the political culture driven by the “left” created an environment where violence against elected leaders was possible.
“I don’t know anything about the perpetrator,” said King, referring to the gunman who fired at members of Congress during their baseball practice. “But I do know that America is divided. . . . And the violence is appearing in the streets. And it’s coming from the left.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/pol...ooting-left/Bze7uuF2uNeYf1thSzU0VL/story.html
6/09/2017
Steve King, the unabashed White Nationalist, dares to point a finger at the left-
Rep. Steve King, who recently tweeted that U.S. civilization cannot be restored with “someone else’s babies.”
"Who is somebody else’s babies?” Cuomo asked
"Cuomo tried again, saying, it seems like “you were trying to say ‘someone else’s babies’ means ‘you’re either white or you’re not right.’”
Cuomo, to his credit, tried once more, asking, “A Muslim-American, an Italian-American, a Christian-American, a Jewish-American, you do realize that they are all equal, right? They are all the same thing. We don’t need babies from one of those groups more than we need them from other groups. Do you agree with that?”
King did not say yes. Instead, he paused, swallowed, and said, “Well...” Cuomo pounced on him for hesitating, and King said meekly, “It’s not that simple...”
http://theslot.jezebel.com/gop-rep-steve-king-would-like-to-see-an-america-thats-1793212880
Congressman Steve King is standing by a tweet that was widely condemned as racist.
“I meant exactly what I said,” King told CNN.
Sunday, King tweeted in support of his fellow anti-immigrant demagogue Geert Wilders (who is seeking to become the next Dutch prime minister), praising him as one who “understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
Asked by New Day host Chris Cuomo to defend the comments on Monday, King doubled down on his view that “western civilization” must be defended.
https://thinkprogress.org/steve-king-stands-by-racist-claims-59457bf800ba
What was said after Gabrielle"Gabby" Giffords was almost assassinated-
"Arizona, roiled by the illegal immigration debate, has “become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.’’
This may be true about Arizona, but the shootings could have happened almost anywhere in the United States, given how thoroughly both “lock and load’’-style gun metaphors and the demonization of opponents have saturated the nation’s politics. Even modest differences of opinion are now cast in furious ideological terms. This branding of people and ideas seeks to penetrate casual discourse and shape the impressions of otherwise distracted voters. But because it is so deliberate, this form of branding can also be deliberately avoided. And it must be.
Some innocent colloquialisms about “shooting down’’ proposals or “targeting’’ candidates will slip by. But the red-meat rhetoric — the declarations of revolution, the casual depictions of people as unpatriotic, the brandishing of guns as a symbol of political resistance — should be renounced across the political spectrum.
No political leader or movement should be held responsible for crimes that appear to be Loughner’s alone, and all Americans would benefit from a culture less conducive to the fantasies of unstable minds. Liberals are justified in expressing alarm over the coarsening of the political dialogue. But those who have rushed to blame conservative causes or leaders for the killings should pause and consider whether they, too, are waving a bloody shirt and feeding a culture of denunciation.
The responsibility for maintaining a civil dialogue starts in every home and with every individual.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglo...r_an_old_story_and_a_harsh_political_climate/
June 14, 2017
"Sadly, only the place of liberal and conservative in that sentence has changed."
