We've made flying a nightmare and it's not even clear that the latest, most egregious intrusions into our fourth amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure would stop the bad guys. Sounds a lot like what we've done to airport security. And if we're concerned about politicians as public figures, then how about CEOs, entertainers, and athletes?Īnd all that because of one madman's evil rampage.
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So what are we really talking about here? Limiting free speech? Making certain words illegal? We're certainly heading in that direction. And, as I said before, if we're worried about what we're teaching our kids or inciting violence, does any of this even begin to rise to the level of violence and vitriol depicted on TV, in movies, and in video games? Not even close.A quick search uncovered dozens of blog posts that used words like Destroy, Target, Kill, Conquer, and Sabotage in their headlines. There are literally dozens of sports metaphors that reflect violence, not to mention target practice in sports, bulls-eyes in archery and darts, even human images in weaponry targets.And guess what just appeared in my Inbox? An email from my local wine merchant entitled: ""A killer wine value" - Robert Parker.".In a recent presentation, I quoted an analyst who talked about my client "holding a gun to its customers' heads." The image I used was a cartoon of a bound person with a gun pointed at his head.Not to be funny, but how about Target - the company - with its bright red bulls-eye logo? Does that have to go too?.We talk about dominating an industry and defeating, destroying, even killing the competition. We target customers, competitors, and markets. We use that same sort of rhetoric every day in business.Moreover, how do we even begin to tone down our vitriolic or violent rhetoric and imagery when it's literally strewn throughout our entire society? We're all guilty, for example: Maybe I'm missing something here, but how can we consider censoring without condemning a broad swath of our democratic society and jeopardizing our first amendment right to free speech in the process. And yet, a sheriff and a congressman - two people who should surely know better - based their conclusions, linking Palin and the Tea Party to the shooting, on pure speculation. That surprised me because, the last time I checked, our nation considers even those accused of the most heinous crimes to be innocent until proven guilty. For that, I was lambasted by more than a few readers in angry comments and emails. Raul Grijalva who, when asked if the " Tea Party right was to blame for the tragedy," essentially answered in the affirmative. On the other hand, in a blog post on Monday, I accused those who rushed to link Sarah Palin to this murderess rampage of "attempting to politicize and benefit from tragedy" and I furthermore said that behavior was "despicable, unprofessional, selfish, idiotic, and lacking in professionalism and class." "When people do that, they have got to realize there are consequences to that action." "The way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gunsight over our district," Giffords said last March.
Gabrielle Giffords - the target of Saturday's shooting - in an interview with MSNBC regarding Sarah Palin's now infamous congressional district target map: That may be free speech, but it's not without consequences."Īnd those comments are eerily consistent with those made by Rep.
"People tend to pooh-pooh this business about all the vitriol we hear inflaming the American public by people who make a living off of doing that. And I think people who are unbalanced are especially susceptible to vitriol," said Dupnik at a news conference. "There's reason to believe that this individual may have a mental issue. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik certainly seems to think the answer to the first question is yes: Since this is a complex issue, let's try to break it down.
The way I see it, there are actually three questions on the table: A heated national debate has emerged in the wake of Saturday's shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona.
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