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Edited on Mon Jan-10-11 02:40 AM by Roci
for the Rovian School of the Party of NO.
Make the statement, even if it's a lie, by the time someone bothers to come up with the truth, the lie sticks.
All politics aside, I don't think anyone, anywhere is served by the arguments over what this guy believed, or did not believe, politically or otherwise. People are dead. Politics don't enter into it, nor should it, ever. I don't give a box full of pins what this guy believes, one way or the other. All I know is what he is accused of, and I'll wait for the evidence to make the case. In this case, politics, all politics, is just plain wrong. Don't waste your time on it.
Instead, help substitute reason and focused passion for an act of utter madness. We must return as never before to the foundation stones of the politics we argue. Politics and public service, indeed all governance via civilized means in a civil society, depends not on who knows what, and who it is "spun." The truth of our Politics, and the core of the entire philosophy we expound, is the betterment of the many, instead of the few. Those who oppose what we believe say that the few ought be made better and everyone is lifted by that. The intensity of this argument, and this example of its terrible consequences when touched by madness, has blinded us to it's lasting meaning. The Politics, like the flow of time, and ocean waves, will continue. It always will. But for this moment, which calls forth from everyone who is remotely Human extremes of Humanity to counter madness, we must resist the flow around us for a moment in time, and in it, create a lasting eddy of common Humanity, in which we can all flow for the greater Human good which politics is supposed to bring forth. The victims of this madness were trying to bring a common touch of Humanity to their dedicated beliefs when madness stuck them down. If they, and what some of them died for is to rise, and stand for them in lasting monument, then it is up to all of us who share a common Humanity to place that quality above the politics of the moment, and Remember, as I choose to, not that the victims were Democrats or from some other party. I choose to focus on them as Human Beings, whose attempted denigration at the hands of a madman, will not stand in my hopes, prayers, thoughts, or dreams, because I will not allow it to do so. What I shall remember, and treasure, is their Passion, Their Humanity, and their Commitment, which stands against the madness of a single moment wrought by the Politics of Madness, and the Madman who was the Instrument of that madness.
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