As I watched hour after hour of coverage about the ambush and assassination attempt on a Congresswoman from Arizona, I couldn't help but think this could be the spark for something bigger. There were almost immediate reactions from the MSM that this murder was instigated by the Tea Party. The liberal ideologue Paul Krugman blamed the Republican Party for the murders. Apoplectic left wing faux journalist Keith Olbermann described conservative commentators as those "who have so irresponsibly brought us to this time of domestic terrorism". The local sheriff, an Arizona State Senator and the Congresswoman's father all blamed the Tea Party, either directly or indirectly. Based on my reading of the murderer's writings and youtubes, he appears to be a mentally deranged psycho. Somehow, every liberal MSM "journalist" has concluded that this was due to the contentious political atmosphere in the country. This is code for "we need less dissent". Stop disagreeing with the Obama agenda. If you disagree, you are dangerous.
The scene in the movie that made me think of yesterday's events was toward the end of the movie when Inspector Finch, who is trying to capture V, has a feeling about what is going to happen:
Finch: I had to see it. There wasn't much left. But when I was there it was strange. I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. It's like I could see the whole thing, one long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill. I felt like I could see everything that happened, and everything that is going to happen. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me. And I realized we're all part of it, and all trapped by it.
Dominic: So do you know what's gonna happen?
Finch: No, it was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then"
[Dominoes collapse with TV footages showing conflicts between rioting citizens and the anti-riot police]Â
The line that hit me like a ton of bricks was, "With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid." As Inspector Finch was speaking these words a scene of a policeman shooting a 10 year old girl with a Guy Fawkes Mask on is shown and then an angry mob surrounds and kill the policeman.
Yesterday, someone did something stupid. The question is what happens next.
Already, a fringe religious fanatic pastor and his followers, who have previously picketed the military funerals of Americans killed in Iraq, issued this press release:
 "Thank God for the shooter -" 6 dead! WBC will picket their funerals!"  It continues on to condemn what it condemns as violence unleashed on WBC by a "hateful nation"hoping to silence our kind warning to obey God and flee the wrath to come."Â
There is one thing I'm sure about. This will not result in more civil discourse. Opposing ideologies will become further entrenched in their positions. Those who attempt to be peacemakers will be shouted down. Passions will rise as they did in the 1850s when another member of Congress was badly injured as national passions flamed over slavery.  On May 19, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a prominent voice in the anti-slavery movement, delivered an impassioned speech denouncing the compromises that helped perpetuate slavery and led to confrontations in Kansas. Sumner singled out Senator Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina. Butler, who had recently been incapacitated by a stroke and was recuperating in South Carolina, was held to particular ridicule by Sumner. Sumner said that Butler had taken as his mistress "the harlot, slavery." Sumner also referred to the South as an immoral place for allowing slavery, and he mocked South Carolina.
 Preston Brooks, a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina, was particularly incensed. Not only had the fiery Sumner ridiculed his home state, but Brooks was the nephew of Andrew Butler, one of Sumner's targets. Brooks walked to Sumner's desk in the Senate chamber, and reportedly said: "You have libeled my state and slandered my relation, who is aged and absent. And I feel it to be my duty to punish you." With that, Brooks struck the seated Sumner across the head with his heavy cane. Brooks continued raining blows with the cane upon Sumner, who tried to fend them off with his arms. As might be expected, northern newspapers responded to the violent attack on the Senate floor with horror. Southern newspapers published editorials lauding Brooks, claiming that the attack was a justified defense of the south and slavery. Supporters sent Brooks new canes, and Brooks claimed that people wanted pieces of the cane he used to beat Sumner as "holy relics."
This attack was a foreshadowing of what was to come -" the deaths of 600,000 Americans in the space of four years -" over 4% of the male population. Yesterday's tragedy is another step deeper into this Fourth Turning. Every Fourth Turning has proven to be a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one.Â
Words Matter, Ideas Can Change the WorldPeople should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. V -" V For Vendetta
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The prior Fourth Turnings in U.S. history (American Revolution, Civil War, Great Depression/World War II) all proved to be secular upheavals of immense proportions, tore apart the existing civil order, but had numerous moments of danger and uncertainty about the future turn of events. We are six years into a twenty year Crisis saeculum. Every Crisis intensifies as time progresses to an ultimate crescendo. The initial financial crisis built to a dramatic peak in September 2008 as the government and Federal Reserve have taken extraordinary and immoral actions to protect Wall Street banks. Since September 11, 2001, the government has used fear as its primary means of controlling the American population. Fear of terrorists, fear of flying, fear of WMD, fear of mushroom clouds, fear of the axis of evil, fear of economic collapse, fear of a Great Depression, and now fear of the Tea Party movement. This attack by a crazy man will lead to further losses of liberties and freedoms. That is a certainty.
Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security. V's speech to the people of England invokes Ben Franklin:
"I know why you did it. I know you were afraid! Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease" There were a myriad problems that conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor, Adam Suttler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient, consent." - V -Â V For Vendetta
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