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Communist Party USA Jumps on the Blame Palin/GOP/Tea Party Bandwagon

What a surprise. They neglect to mention that The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf were among the shooter’s favorite books.

(CPUSA) — “. . . In no uncertain terms, the Communist Party USA strongly and unequivocally condemns this outrageous act of violence. We extend our condolences to the family and friends of the victims. We hope for full recoveries for all the wounded, including Rep. Giffords.

It is reported that law enforcement has in custody a 22-year-old white man, Jared Lee Loughner, as the accused shooter. It is not clear whether the shooter acted alone or with accomplices.

Many are dubbing this a tragedy, which undoubtedly it is. But it doesn’t end there.

While we do not yet know the motivation of the crime, many have surmised that the motivation is political because of the atmosphere of violent language and threats against Rep. Giffords and other Congressional Democrats. Political or not, the extreme right-wing tea party movement and their anti-government rantings and ravings helped create an atmosphere that allowed or even encouraged this attack. For instance, until the day of the event when it was removed, Sarah Palin featured Giffords on her webpage with the congresswoman’s district in the crosshairs of a gun, targeting her for her support of healthcare reform.

Political hate speech has consequences. Giffords herself said, “Palin has crosshairs on our district; people have to realize there are consequences to that.” She said that in a TV interview after her Arizona office had been broken into and vandalized after her vote for the national health care reform bill. Giffords was a frequent target of the tea party movement. Judge Roll, a Republican, had also received threats from the right.

Yet, the link to rhetoric and violence doesn’t end with the Palin and her tea party. It extends to the political leadership of Arizona and the Republican Party, who have fomented laws and policies that logically lead to violence. Starting with the anti-immigrant SB 1070 and banning ethnic studies, leaders like Governor Jan Brewer, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have to take as much responsibility for this violence as Palin and her cohorts. All their condolences ring hollow because of their callous inflammatory rhetoric and romanticization of guns and “Second Amendment remedies”. Arizona is burning. It is Ground Zero for this extreme far-right, and their corporate, multi-billionaire sponsors. In the words of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in responding to political mood leading to the shooting shooting, “Arizona I think has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”

In the hours after the shooting, some right wing elements seem to have created fake social networking pages in order to associate Loughner with the Left. The full story about the mental state and political motivations for the shooter will hopefully come to light soon. The attempt to paint this suspect as a leftist continues the far-right’s use of anti-communism and anti-democratic rhetoric to cover-up their own role in continuing the hate until its logical violent conclusion.

It was Giffords father, 75-year-old Spencer Giffords, who wept when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies, and answered, “Yeah,” to The New York Post, “The whole tea party.”

This shooting marks a dangerous and sad day for our country. It’s up to the American people to say, “Enough” to the hate, the racism, incitement to violence and the fascist-like behavior of anti-government thugs. Political violence and assassination has no place in our democracy.”

HT: RS

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43 comments
  1. Bloggy Bayou says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    While Pundits Point Fingers, Mexico Crumbles

    http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=4525

    Cheers

  2. Larry7 (prev. just Larry) says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    Rhetoric of Left = Rhetoric of Communist Party.

    What a coincidence.

  3. 9-11 Infidel says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    Naturally, the diaper babies on the left will use every opportunity to diss anyone who disagrees with them. Seems to me that the socialist whacko left just as screwy as the perp. After all his favorite tommes are the socialist left’s favorite tommes: The “Communist Manifesto” and Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” were among the favorite reading materials listed on his youtube channel.

    Nice try lefties…Alinsky lives… truth be told, one of your own went off the deep end…again…

  4. Kaddafi_Delenda_Est says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    H/T: Gateway Pundit: The media and democrats want us to focus on the nation’s “caustic political climate” after the tragedy yesterday. Maybe they should start with President Obama. He may be the worst offender.
    http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/01/did-barack-obama-cause-the-shootings-yesterday-in-tucson

    ** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
    ** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
    ** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
    ** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
    ** Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
    ** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
    ** Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
    ** Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
    ** Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”

    If Leftists really want to consider “the atmosphere of violent language”, they may want to start at the White House.

  5. Ideocracy says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    Note to Communist Party:
    Please review videos of your protest marches and gatherings and see if you can pick out the signs inciting violence against politicians and corporations.
    It is unfortunate but not unexpected that you would justify your own actions by seizing upon the actions of an individual who appears to share more in common with you than the people and organizations that you claim are responsible.

  6. Florida Girl says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Crosshair hypocrisy

    http://lefthatefest.blogspot.com/2011/01/crosshair-hypocracy.html

    http://lefthatefest.blogspot.com/2011/01/crosshair-hypocrisy-ll.html

    http://lefthatefest.blogspot.com/2011/01/hypocrisy-lll.html

  7. Larry7 (prev. just Larry) says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Thank you, K_D_E!

    I am saving that info. I was thinking it would be great to have Zero’s inflammatory rhetoric in one place!

  8. big-pete says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    Isn’t this a transcript of bathtub boy’s special comments last night?

  9. The REAL Bob says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    @Kaddafi_Delenda_Est

    Beautiful post.

    I point my finger at and rest all of the blame directly on Obama. Your list only proves it. Thank you.

  10. debrobeaudean says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    not to mention communist Van Jones and Frances Fox Piven also calling for violence and all the democrats up to the POTUS calling for class and racial strife.

  11. whthfk says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    Well everyone we have learned one positive thing out of all this.
    The Left is scared shitless of the Tea Party.

    They know we can bet them and they can’t destroy us.

    That should let everyone know that we are on the right track.
    Keep up the Good Work.

    We need to be on the TV and Radio talking back and sticking up for ourselves.
    We not responsible for this kid or his actions.
    It was his random act of violence and his alone.

    We are in their heads 24/7 we can bring them down and they know it.
    The progressive Communist of this Nation are scared and we did it.
    Now to finish them off and get them the hell out of power.
    Back to freedom, loving the Constitution and building America and Americans back up, get our economy started and
    rebuild our futures again.

    THIS IS AMERICA AND THEY CAN’T HAVE IT.

  12. whthfk says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    beat them,

  13. whthfk says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    We’re ….

  14. gastorgrab says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    “right wing elements seem to have created fake social networking pages in order to associate Loughner with the Left.”

    ————-

    If only the left showed that kind of initiative. :-)
    .

  15. 9-11 Infidel says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Two good articles from American Thinker:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/leftists_have_you_no_sense_of.html

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/and_the_winner_of_the_most_biz.html

  16. artsykr says:
    January 9, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    Also if you went to hillbuzz and looked the post about DK there was screen shot of his fb page and guess who was on that. It was NOT Sarah.

  17. Sickofobama says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    One of Loughner’s favorite books was the Communist Manifesto.

    Why no mentioning of this from the Communist Party?

    We know why – because the Communist Manifesto is the guidebook the Communists are using to overthrow our country.

    Sarah Palin doesn’t want to overthrow our country.

    She wants to preserve it.

    God bless you Sarah Palin.

    You’re friends out here are wishing you prayers at this time as well as the victims.

    The left who are pinning this deliberate act of violence on patriotic Americans are despicable beings and should be reminded of that in a verbal way on a constant basis.

  18. myrtle says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    I went to the original article but noticed there is not place for comments.

  19. Moshe Ben Avram says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    This from the Masters of the Lie.

  20. myrtle says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Is it just mean or has there been more comments/articles/news coverage from more outlets than there was with the Ft. Hood shootings?

    I don’t remember the CPUSA condemning that.

  21. Always On Watch says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    Figures that CPUSA would be on board in the blame game.

  22. vulfy says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    One thing that many conservatives have not yet learned is that when one speaks figuratively -metaphorically is that most liberals take it literally. When Sarah Palin uses the crosshairs or reload analogy they think that she means actual harm.
    Notwithstanding, The largest segment of liberals are only looking out for the lefts view on what they want this country to become. May God help us, for he is our only hope, and has all under his control. Prayer is the best answer.

  23. gastorgrab says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Disconnecting from the event for a moment,

    How does the left reconcile the fact that Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto are on the same reading list?

    How could someone find a common thread between the two works if as the left claims, ‘the two philosophies are diametrically opposed’?
    .

  24. ratsofred says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    As we pray and morn for the victims , don’t lose focus on what these progressive commies are about . Conservatives are steadfast in their values and beliefs . We will not cow tow down to the communist bastards , not now , not ever . Give them time and they will devour themselves , parasites that they are .

  25. ClassicFilm says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    Hypocritical and typical that the post at Communist Party USA not only makes no mention of “Communist Manifesto” being a favorite book of Loughner’s (screw honesty and journalistic integrity) and that he may be a member of a Jewish hate group (Giffords is the first Jewish female to be a congresswoman), but no one can submit comments on the post to expose their obvious falsehoods in the post.

    Cowardly punk liars – easier for this spineless, commie hack at CPUSA to blame all the world’s tragedies on the tea party movement, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck than to decry the horrific shooting massacre committed by ONE OF THEIR OWN.

  26. The Rogue Jew says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Wasn’t the Liberal Left that was calling for armed and violent uprising after they lost the majority in House? If anyone’s rhetoric caused this violence the blame would have to rest on the shoulders of the Liberal Democrats.

  27. Heartofanangel says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    The fact of the matter is is that Loughner was not of the presence of mind to be rationally affiliated with a political party!! His apparent psychosis takes him way out of the realm of rational thought pattern or participation in any way shape or form. Even his favorite books listed on his social media page adhere to no particularly consistent philosophy or basis.

    Yes he mentioned the Constitution, but well the Communist Manifesto was one of this favorite books along with Alice in Wonderland. To me it is spinning and responsible for media outlets to be spouting he is a right winger out to get a Democrat when apparently he was nuts!

    To take this tragedy and spin things to go after conservatives takes the focus off of the job that those in power should be doing for the American people . United we stand divided we fall, and that is what the communists have wanted all along. This nation is being divided, and left to fall.

  28. Rogertheshrubber says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    Ah yes, the oh-s0-tolerant left…..and their co-horts in the MSM.

    I guess it’s all the bong-hits and heavy regular doses of acid that results in their short term memory loss, including this doozie from a couple of years ago:

    http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/mother-id-love-to-punch-have-you-beaten-your-mother-today/

    The great Scott Thong has a more complete portfolio of PDS here:

    http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/blatant-anti-palin-bias-in-the-liberal-media-a-collection/

    Liberal media, heal thyself before yo start casting stones.

    Where have I heard something similar……….?

    RTS

  29. Rogertheshrubber says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    sic (you)

    RTS

    What can I say, I’m a former LA teacher.

  30. Sentinel says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    Maybe this Loughran fellow was right about “mind control” by the government. Seems his mind was most assuredly controlled by Obongo himself, given the posting of K-D-E above detailing the vitriolic rhetoric of the “Magnificent One”.

    This is what the great dictators do – they incite violence through words. Hitler was a master of it as evidenced by Krystallnacht, when the German people (aided by a few Brownshirts) broke windows of Jewish shopkeepers and ransacked their businesses.

    More of this will follow as the Marxist beast fights for survival.

  31. Diamond Girl says:
    January 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    Wouldn’t expect anything less from them.

    Msm remain mum…after-all the majority of them are in the same bandwagon.

  32. gastorgrab says:
    January 9, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    This is interesting. This is a publication from Harper’s Magazine, dated August 1941, entitled ‘Who Goes Nazi?’ It attempts to identify who is susceptible to this particular ‘cult’ behavior.

    ————

    Who goes Nazi?
    http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/0020122

    “It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times–in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers……..”

    ————

    Fellow Travelers??? Where have i heard that expression before?
    .

  33. Econlady says:
    January 9, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    I am glad that I am not the only one who is seeing through all of the left’s hypocrisy. Thanks guys.

  34. Umpire says:
    January 9, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    The shooter began stalking Giffords in 2007 – a full year before American knew Palin

  35. craig says:
    January 9, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    uhhh Nazism is a rightwing philosphy

  36. Larry7 (prev. just Larry) says:
    January 9, 2011 at 4:06 pm

    The Nazis were big fans of Communism:

    “The Left’s Dirtiest Secret – the Relationship of Communism and Nazism”
    http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/08/lefts-dirtiest-secret-relationship-of.html

  37. cuthean says:
    January 9, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    ** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
    Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
    Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
    Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
    Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
    Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
    Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
    Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
    Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”

  38. Jason says:
    January 9, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Hahahahaha…the wonders of surfing the internet…I land on this site.. and read all these ridiculous comments about liberals being communist..Obama yada yada…… progressives…(didn’t know progress was a bad thing)….thanks for making me laugh guys….. and don;t bother responding… I will never come to this page again…the hate, bigotry and divisiveness is painful…. God Bless you and God Bless America…….but hey;;;hahahahaha…thanks again ..

    “We are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.” “Medicare is Socialism” Ronald Reagan against the passing of Medicare…. sorry Ronnie…we are still free…..

  39. DohBiden says:
    January 9, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    then get lost asswipe.

    If you wanna see hate bigotry and divisiveness go to every leftist website where they spew hatred against gays who vote republican.

    But i thought you idiots compared Bush to Hitler and are still doing it?

    Like i said fucktard go to CPUSA’s website you Stalin worshipper.

  40. Greg says:
    January 9, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    I don’t care what the Democratic Party has to say about this.

    And no that’s not a typo.

  41. doobster says:
    January 9, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    I am TOTALLY against violence, but if it must be, bring it, you communist pussies and see what REAL PATRIOTS are like.

  42. bitterclinger says:
    January 9, 2011 at 7:28 pm

    “In no uncertain terms, the Communist Party USA strongly and unequivocally condemns this outrageous act of violence.”

    The IRONY! It just reeks!

  43. gastorgrab says:
    January 9, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Found the perfect picture to illustrate the Commu-Nazi point:

    http://i53.tinypic.com/2ajq0y9.jpg

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