Imagine that we should see as the leading news story on the BBC Americas page, the funeral of the 9 year old killed in Tucson. It is sad that it takes the inevitable and predicted deaths of innocents to confront deaf ears of the guilty that the right to free speech requires some use of common sense. Hate rhetoric, TV, computer games, etc have done little to make a peace-loving new generation. As in free software, after a trial period you have to buy the software to be able to run the program. Similarly, in order to be accepted in the 'club', you have to prove yourself through your speeches and words.
Sarah Palin has proven herself to be beautiful but somewhat brain dead in sensitivity to most of the people in the lower '48'. Ethics and morals are strangers to far too many. She may defend her right to free speech but she is yelling 'fire' in a movie theater. I do not 'blame' her for the shooting. I have observed Michele Bachmann making no comments in the past few days, Glenn Beck making the kindest speech I have ever heard him make about toning down the hate speech, Palin whose writer didn't look far enough down the list of meanings of 'blood libel' to use a different phrase defended her poor choice. I've learned that there are people who don't wish you to explain your meaning. They know the words you used and that is all they wish to know. The right choice of words distinguishes the great statesmen from the unsuccessful ones. Sarah Palin failed that round.
they' allows him to continue to talk about the ideal without any real way of knowing what has to be done to get there other than his suggestion of needing new leadership in Washington, obviously forgetting that it what we voted in two years ago to undo what the Bush administration did to our economics. Rand Paul has zeal but lacks experience to see ahead to political consequences. I don't mean about his own re-election, I mean the results to our countrymen if his policies are enacted.
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