Liberals Exploiting Tragedy

Liberals Exploiting Tragedy
By: Michael P. Tremoglie, author of "A Sense Of Duty" available at amazon.com, The Bulletin
04/19/2007
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The contemptible exploitation of a terrible tragedy by certain liberal ideologue and certain Democratic Party politicians is unconscionable. These demagogues could not wait until the next of kin were notified before they began making public statements attempting to blame Republicans, President Bush, the National Rifle Association and conservatives for the tragedy.

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Have they no shame? Is there not one shred of morality and compassion left among these people?

Virginia Democrat Congressman Jim Moran made a disgraceful statement during a radio interview that Republicans and the Bush administration were at fault for the carnage at Virginia Tech University. This is the same Democrat politician who, in 2003, proclaimed that Jews were responsible for the war in Iraq. Moran said, "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this ..."

New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly wrote a thoroughly despicable column with the morbid satirical title, "Yes Virginia, Guns Kill Innocents," in which he somehow tried to link every citizen in the state of Virginia as responsible for the massacre because of the state's gun laws. Obviously he did not compare notes with Rep. Moran first. This is the same Michael Daly who once resigned from this same paper after he allegedly wrote a bogus article about a shooting in Northern Ireland.

The leftwing magazine The Nation proclaimed, "Thanks to the Republican Congress, law enforcement officials can't even get a full picture of which guns are used during crimes in their communities."

A BBC commentator, Gavin Hewitt, said mass murder on school campuses had become were normal. They showed video of the Columbine and the

Amish school shootings. They said the powerful U.S. gun lobby had blocked gun restrictions that Europeans regard as simple common sense. "Even after today's horrific tragedy, laws are unlikely to change," Hewitt said.

For someone to make such snap pronouncements and judgments - before the killer was even identified or a motive was known - is indicative of people who are bitter and resentful.

How cold can these people be to begin their politicization and exploitation of a tragedy before the incident is even completed?

How much hatred must these people have inside of them to make such allegations before the victims' names are known?

Surely such people have as much hatred and mean spiritedness as anyone who ever wore a white sheet and rode with the Ku Klux Klan. Surely, they possess more bitterness than anyone who ever followed Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot or Hitler or Castro.

How else can one account for their immediate attempt to foist their political views into this calamity? Could they not have at least waited until the dead are buried, the wounded treated, the perpetrator identified, the police complete their investigation, and the grieving end? Was that too much to ask?

Give credit, at least, to Virginia's Democratic Governor Tim Kaine. When asked a very inappropriate question by a journalist during a news conference who was obviously attempting to exacerbate the issue of gun control, Kaine stated that he had "nothing but loathing" for those who take the tragedy and try to make it into their own crusade or "their political hobby horse." He said people who try to do that should take it "elsewhere."

Why, in the midst of a disaster, some feel compelled to use it for their own purposes is very disturbing. Do these people, who are intelligent, supposedly sophisticated, individuals, do they not have at least one iota of concern for the victims?

Apparently not, instead they are more interested in telling everyone how they feel. They want everyone to know what they think is significant. They act as if what they think or say or believe, is so important for all the world to know that the rest of us should listen to their every word and not be concerned about those who are suffering.

Such self-importance is appalling. It is appalling and it discredits those think this way.

Unfortunately, their own vanity prevents them from realizing this and any ideas of value that they may contribute will not be seriously considered.

Michael P. Tremoglie is the author of A Sense Of Duty, available on Amazon.com





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