Like OJ searching for the real killer, the New York Times is trying to figure out what could have motivated a patriot to try to kill a person whom the New York Times characterized as literal Hitler. The front page right now:
In case you too are searching for a motive, the New York Post published “Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto”:
And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)
I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.
Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.
Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack
Related:
From the above, a New York Times reminder that the righteous might want to eliminate a “danger”:
“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X Sunday afternoon.
But back in 2017, Obama noted:”You have to tend to this garden of democracy — otherwise, things can fall apart fairly quickly. And we’ve seen societies where that happens,” he added, referring to the late 1920 and 1930s.” See: https://www.dw.com/en/barack-obama-evokes-nazi-germany-in-plea-to-voters/a-41722219.
Doesn’t that make Mr. Cole Allen a hero…he was tending to our garden of democracy?
I woke up this morning thinking that we in the U.S. have been in a “cold civil war”*, although one that seems to be warming. We are so polarized, yet our lives are intertwined, a war of direct combat would create intolerable collateral damage for both sides. Even outside a moral framework of non-violence, assassinating a sitting president harms both sides — to address the topic of the day. We claim we can help other countries achieve peace, but we can’t even help ourselves. I wish I had ideas for re-establishing the ideal of compromise — I don’t even find it at the personal level anymore. I’ve kind of given up. (Ghosting is the bane of our modern existence, for the record.)
There has been a lot of relocation along physical boundaries, and we now see the Democrats gerrymandering. Despite Lincoln’s hopefully well-intentioned war, have we really solved the fundamental problem of everyone being able to lead the life they choose as long as it doesn’t harm others? Obviously, assassinating Lincoln didn’t achieve anything either, other than bitter revenge.
* I thought this was clever, until I searched for the term in the Internet, perhaps “there isn’t anything new under the Internet” would be the new adage.