Back to the topic itself...

What we must remember is the story itself. From all the reports put out so far, this is the basic picture: The suspect allegedly was in political affiliation a liberal before 2006, pothead too. One of his parents was a county public official. Suspect also allegedly quit the reefer and apparently lost his head (mental disease?), cutting himself off from friends and going off in his own private little world of conspiracy theories that make no sense to anyone except himself.

Then he appeared (unless I'm mistaken) at a rally for the Congresswoman in '08 and was miffed that she didn't answer his perfectly reasonable question (to him at least) about the power of grammar. Or something. Anyway he took that gun and went off on a suicidal assassation attempt (he left letters behind at his home addressed to authorities) and targeted her personally. This wasn't random.

From those YouTube videos he posted on-line, nothing he cited is specifically Tea Party. It's less anti-government and more the broad generic anti-authority paranoia shared by all fringes. In fact alot of his so-called "favorite books" from ALICE IN WONDERLAND to yes both COMMUNIST MANIFESTO and MEIN KAMPF are all about an author unveiling the real reality behind the misleading manufactured "reality." Then again, friends of the suspect claim he liked to fuck with people in general by shocking people with outrageousness this side of your usual FAMILY GUY segway sketch which they think explain that booklist, but who knows?

Is the Tea Party to blame for this particular tragedy? Is Sarah Palin? No. The "noise" I mentioned in my previous post that the media is speculating/attacking from now is honestly all based from that Palin ad I posted which at the time it was distributed a bad idea by that PAC. Now in retrospect its definately even much more a very bad idea.

Her camp spinning the "targets" as surveyor's sights (what?) only digs that PR hole she's in even deeper.

That's like claiming a Christian cross is actually a plus sign. Couldn't her flunkie staffers just admit they screwed up, we're sorry, it was a mistake at the time? Did they really think anyone would disagree with that?

Her (and the basic Tea Party community) being over-reacting defensive just makes them look more guilty than they necessarily are on this incident. Nor not exactly swatting down the Beck-expressed public idea that the American republic would fall if she would to fall herself. That last bit isn't bad PR or bad spin, just being narcissist, which is expected of most if not all aspiring presidential candidates. Including our current President.

Back to the point unless we discover otherwise, until then there is no direct evidence that the suspect was directly inspired or influenced by that PAC ad or certain specific Tea Party rhetoric. Did this pamphlet, passed around Dallas a few days before JFK visited, inspire Lee Harvey Oswald?



We have no evidence that it did, and to argue that it did is just from pure speculation. Not like the police found it in his house or he had it in his pocket or whatever. But none the less its still a toxic visual political link (fair ot not) that gave Dallas a bad name.