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| Today we have seen the results of this rhetoric. Those with a megaphone,whether provided by public office or a media outlet, have responsibilities.They cannot avoid the consequences of their blatant efforts to inflame,anger,and outrage. We all know that there are unstable and potentially dangerous people among us.To repeatedly appeal to their basest instincts is to invite and welcome their predictable violence.So long as we all tolerate this kind of irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric or, in the case of some commentators, treat it with delight,reward it,and consider it cute,so long will we place all those in public life, whom the provocateurs dislike,in the crosshairs of danger.That this is carried out, and often rewarded,in the name of the Constitution democratic rights and liberties, and patriotism is a mockery of all this nation claims to believe. America is better than this. |
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America is better than this?
by Robert P. Philipps on Sunday, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:45:47 PM
The deterioration of family values R4
by Md Dra on Sunday, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:40:18 PM
Working Moms ... and Dads
by Debbie Scally on Monday, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:07:12 AM