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teleen_fictionArizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords shot, several wounded. She was shot in the head and is in surgery. She's still alive as of this posting, though at least one of her aids wasn't so lucky. She's a Democrat who just won a narrow victory against a Tea Party Candidate. As ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rm noted, her district was shown under a 'crosshairs' graphic on Sarah Palin's website.
ETA: A nine-year-old child was killed in this shooting. This monster MURDERED A CHILD in the name of politics.
First, just to get it out of the way, anyone who uses violence or the threat of violence in support of what they believe can go fuck themselves.
Second, I'm getting really tired of the stupid, militant asshats in this country (the US) getting away with this shit. (And yes, they've arrested this particular militant asshat, but I know there will be those who condone his behavior privately, even if they condemn it publicly.)
I'm tired of abortion doctors facing the threat of death for supporting the rights of women not to be broodmares, but it's excused because it's 'god's will'.
I'm tired of Glenn Beck being allowed to rewrite history to say that it was the 3/5 clause and not the deaths of 600,000 people that led to the end of slavery.
I'm tired of Bill O'Reilly being allowed to say that 'you can't explain the tides' to an atheist in defense of god.
I'm tired of the GOP saying that they're going to reduce the deficit, but exempt anything that they want to do (i.e. tax cuts and repealing health care reform) from their plans to do so.
I'm tired of people voting against their own self-interest because they don't want other people to have rights.
I'm tired of my side not prosecuting GW Bush's administration for war crimes.
I'm tired.
Note: To anyone who says that I shouldn't be bringing up all of this other stuff when a woman is critically injured in the hospital, I say that it's all part of a larger pattern of bullshit we've allowed stupid people to get away with for far too long. She might not be lying in that hospital right now if we didn't give so many militant stupid fucksticks a pass when they promote stupidity.
rm noted, her district was shown under a 'crosshairs' graphic on Sarah Palin's website.ETA: A nine-year-old child was killed in this shooting. This monster MURDERED A CHILD in the name of politics.
First, just to get it out of the way, anyone who uses violence or the threat of violence in support of what they believe can go fuck themselves.
Second, I'm getting really tired of the stupid, militant asshats in this country (the US) getting away with this shit. (And yes, they've arrested this particular militant asshat, but I know there will be those who condone his behavior privately, even if they condemn it publicly.)
I'm tired of abortion doctors facing the threat of death for supporting the rights of women not to be broodmares, but it's excused because it's 'god's will'.
I'm tired of Glenn Beck being allowed to rewrite history to say that it was the 3/5 clause and not the deaths of 600,000 people that led to the end of slavery.
I'm tired of Bill O'Reilly being allowed to say that 'you can't explain the tides' to an atheist in defense of god.
I'm tired of the GOP saying that they're going to reduce the deficit, but exempt anything that they want to do (i.e. tax cuts and repealing health care reform) from their plans to do so.
I'm tired of people voting against their own self-interest because they don't want other people to have rights.
I'm tired of my side not prosecuting GW Bush's administration for war crimes.
I'm tired.
Note: To anyone who says that I shouldn't be bringing up all of this other stuff when a woman is critically injured in the hospital, I say that it's all part of a larger pattern of bullshit we've allowed stupid people to get away with for far too long. She might not be lying in that hospital right now if we didn't give so many militant stupid fucksticks a pass when they promote stupidity.
