On Rivers of Rage

It seems that in every bend and corner of the nation, spring torrents have left us running on rivers of rage.

One of the few lessons I have actually learned indelibly (in a life just chock full of opportunities for learning), is that my own rage is harmful - certainly to the object of that rage, but more so to myself. Especially if that rage is borne on the leather wings of self-righteousness and self-justification. At the very least, blind anger is corrosive and utterly destabilizing, and I can't tolerate it and survive. If I tell you, however, I can let it go and hopefully be effective.

This post is brief, because I do not wish to further feed the rage, in either myself or you, stimulated by the Tiller assassination. I do, however, need to raise my voice in a cry for justice - justice that will be wholly underserved if only the assassin is tried, convicted, and punished.

Yesterday's assassination was not the action of another "crazed lone gunman." There is undeniable evidence that none of the major assassination attempts/successes have been such. One cannot help but wonder how many lone gunmen it takes to make a conspiracy. That's just another Virginia swamp hound that won't hunt.

The fact is that the rabid religious right is fairly stocked with very sick people. Clinically paranoid delusionals who truly believe the lord has anointed them in the sacrament of justice bwo hollow-point slugs. It is their duty, they believe, to rid the earth of their gods' enemies, by whatever means necessary. These good ole boys could show them raghead terr-rists a thang or two, I think.

O'Reilly and Company know this. Himself will spin his vituperative denials of responsibility and complicity tonight on Fox. He'll say something like, "It wuz a terrible tragedy." And he knows we know he's lying. He had as much to do with the body in the pool of blood on the church floor as did the wretch that pulled the trigger.

I will not predict it, but I will not be surprised if the assassin is never brought to trial. Chances are he will be evaluated for psychiatric illness and be whisked away to a secure looney bin to wither in silence.

A trial will implicate O'Reilly and his wide circle of fellow hate-mongers in the media, in churches, and in institutions, all riding on rivers of rage and the lava of lies.

The justice system in our country is moribund. The biggest sin is the Obama regime's failure to prosecute war crimes. The rest of the system limps along on that example. But O'Reilly and others must be indicted for the crime of incitement. Not only have they cried "fire" in a crowded theater, they have set that very fire.

It also must be said that that biggest institutional failure of recent times, the Department of Homeland Security, must step up. We have lost more American citizens at home at the hands of domestic terrorists since 911 than by foreign terrorists. This assassin has a history of terrorist activity - why was he free?

Tiller's assassination was just another rock in the rapids on the river of rage. It's fast and angry water. It needs to be dammed.

Categories: assassination, mental, health, post-society, responsibilities, values


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