I really am tired of the progressive left’s idiotic and malicious attempts to paint every newsworthy violent act as the fault of conservatives and/or the Tea party movement. It’s as if they are trying to build the Great Wall of Denial to hide themselves from the shame of so many utopian movements gone horribly wrong.
The latest exhibit comes in the form of J. Patrick Bedell, the deranged Truther and Bush-hater who shot two police officers near the Pentagon. Like the deranged Communist-loving and Bush-hating Joseph Stack, Bedell has been transformed by the left and the MSM into a right-wing cauldron of hate who embodies all that is wrong with the Tea Party movement.
I’m with Michelle Malkin on this. Bedell, like Stack before him, was bugnuts crazy and he was going to go off regardless of his ideology. There are some people who plant a grievance into their hearts and nurse it with bitterness and anger until it blooms into stunning violence. The grievance itself isn’t important. It never is. The person is, and it’s painfully obvious that Bedell and Stack both were weak-minded and angry men who believed the entire universe was focused on drowning them in misery.
The truth of the matter is if Bedell wasn’t obsessed with finding the “truth” about 9/11, he would have obsessed over some other ridiculously convoluted and Joker-like conspiracy. For him, 9.11 fit nicely. For Stack, it was the IRS. For the next whackjob it could easily be the Triune Red Menace of the Washington Capitals’ Alexander Ovechkin, Alex Semin, and Seymon Varlamov (there’s three of them, don’t you get it? A trinity, man! And they’re Russians. Red Russians, like the Capitals’ color. It’s all so clear!).
The left needs to drop its silly penchant of trying to lay ever senseless act of violence on a political ideology it doesn’t like and the right needs to learn to fight back on the solid ground that already exists. Michael Walsh has the right idea on the latter front.
Tags: Crime and Punishment, Progressives
