[Vision2020] the shooting in Tucson

[keely emerinemix]

sorry -- I neglected to mention that the alleged gunman's video on You Tube echoes the same paranoid, angry, irrational anti-government stuff that Wilson, Courtney, and all of their ilk are as famous for as they are for their status as "Christian" ministers.  That got dropped when I proofread, but while he was clearly a lone wolf, or so it appears, he was, as Wilson would say, eagerly suckling at the teat of vicious right-wing extremism of the kind they promote.

Enough said, but I think it needed to be.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: kjajmix1 at msn.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; godshatter at yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:41:01 -0800
Subject: [Vision2020] the shooting in Tucson








I've tried a couple of times to send this and it appears to not have gone through, but I want to answer Paul:

Paul,

Thank you for your reasonable words.  It's better than I've gotten from Courtney on his Right-Mind.us blog.

That
 said, I would remind you that she had been threatened before as a 
result of her involvement in the Obama healthcare bill.  She is not a 
liberal, but I believe that she is more progressive than her record 
shows, primarily because of the extraordinarily conservative district 
she represents -- one that's been rife with violent, bigoted rhetoric 
from the Right.  I heard a lot about her from  my father, and even two 
years ago he was aware that she and Rep. Grijalva (a friend of mine from
 way back in the day) were targets of unreasonable and irrational 
attacks from the media and from the entrenched Religious Right and 
nascent Tea Party folks.  This was political, and even though the video 
posted by the gunman says he's not a Christian, the instances of 
"Christian" right-wing extremism in this country is alarming, and 
increasing.

I hold Wilson, Courtney, et al, responsible (do I 
have to say "and not accountable" again???) because, as ministers of the
 Gospel -- Courtney has been an elder in Christ Church and is a visible 
evangelical spokesman in Idaho conservative/Libertarian politics -- they
 have failed in their mission to preach and model peace, truth, justice,
 and basic kindness in their public pronouncements.  Worse, they have 
fanned the flames of a tinderbox-volatile sociopolitical, 
religiocultural climate, often with astonishing glee and carelessness, 
and are committed, judging from their own works, to calling simple 
political disagreement "tyranny" that must be resisted by all Christian 
 men.

You're a good man, and if you disagree with me, you're not 
evil because of it.  But surely you see that this hasn't happened in a 
vacuum, and that a church leader who, like hundreds of them across the 
nation, laughs at the idea of Obama's assassination and perverts 
Scripture -- the "Obama Psalm" -- in spreading his hatred of the 
President is a man who, like his "tyranny" frothing pastor, deserves my 
scorn at minimum, and my indictment in all truth.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com


 		 	   		  

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