Saturday, April 11, 2009

Violent America 4-11-09

CNN: Children shot in Terrytown apartment; three dead, one critical
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2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

SANDE ... America is the most murderous society on earth. Let it go friend. The crazy's are buying guns like there is no tomorrow, but what can any of us do about it? They sit @ home watch Glenn Beck and listen in their cars and workplaces to DrugRush and they're going crazy. A BLACK MAN sits in their sacred WHITE HOUSE now and they all feel violated , their manhood challenged. The slave revolt they have always feared is REALITY!!

12:41 PM
Jim Sande said...

I decided that I was going to have this little focus and call it violent America. It changes the way I think about things and remember things when I deliberately seek out these articles and post them, day after f-ing day. And we know that this is going to be the way it continues.

What is very clear to me right off the bat, is that how we kill each other and ourselves varies according to cultural background. We are terrified of "suicide bombers" yet we clearly and obviously have "suicide shooters." Somehow it is in a different rung of right and wrong. The big difference is that power and politics is not involved with our "suicide shooters." At least the kind of power and politics that threatens our military, political, and corporate interests as the "suicide bombers" do in Iraq and Afghanistan and every other f-ing place.

I'm only judging by what I read and see, I'm not saying its correct to do this. I'm trying to be objective here. Its just that this is the way it seems to be. This is an underlying structure in our moral code. Personally I think it needs some clarification, to put it as mildly as I can.

So if what you are saying is correct, and I believe it is, because I read about and know what a crazed a-hole Beck is and Limbaugh is, then we are in for a twist in our "suicide shooters." If its right wing wackjobs pulling the triggers then it becomes the same thing. Its like we are verging on the same level of "suicide" as the Iraqis.

Its very very messed up.

2:44 PM

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