Looking at the way media and officials are reacting to the shooting of Arizona U.S. Representative Gifford (and several other victims not given such depth of time even though they were killed), it seems that since a man who believed government had failed him on terms known only to him, anyone at all who on even traditional, Constitutional terms so much as says "eh?" to any official forever after shall be deemed the equivalent of Gifford's attacker and silenced together with being made of public "interest". Period, from kids through the elderly...PERIOD!!!

Well, most of us DON'T go around say shooting our Representatives, nor do we seek in comfort in the likes of Pakistani Muslim government bodyguards who shoot their own Governors for speaking against death to all Christians...hope the latter doesn't subject me to being labeled anti-Islam from the same voices saying free speech generally is the cause of attacks on officials.

On the contrary, when I walk around streets in Oregon towns, I notice that police, people in business wear, kids, old people, and even ME more and more observe such road rage on the streets...even as pedestrians...that in Salem, for example, people are using trucks to simply smash down gas pumps for doing it's sake, with others more and more LAUGHING at us as they drive MILES the wrong way, rev up and drive at us in crosswalks WITH lights and signs in our favor, and so on. Around Oregon, stores this past month have been beefing up locks and cases due to increased theft. In other words, it can be pretty dangerous to just be a normal person these days.

Now, I don't really think anybody in charge means to say or imply that whatever happens between the "little people" is their own affair, and whatever happens to an OFFICIAL...well, now, finally, somebody who actually MATTERS!!! Round up the nation, smack, waterboard, draw and quarter, whatever you have to do to the race of rats until one of them coughs up whodunit! No, this is what political opportunists and media mavens crave as  attention-getters for themselves.

What the Gifford matter actually shows is that so many mavens are demanding all government stomp on even Constitutional critics or voices, the ACTUAL psycho-nut cases get to weave overly-long "twisted internet trails" at non-traditional interest websites (as was said of Gifford's attacker) without anyone shutting off their websites, freezing accounts, having police stops, or such, while the bulk of DHS/NICC/Focus Center/Law Enforcement time and money is spent slapping around the places that demonstrably DO NOT produce people like Osama bin Laden or Gifford's attacker.

Wherefore, I respectfully submit that it is not ANY use of religion, speech, questioning, or otherwise that must be abolished...I'm just saying that government might like to spend more time sending in spies on groups who actually ADVOCATE force against others to protect officials, and consider restoring funding to local police agencies and Courts/jails to keep the real hard-core hitters...who don't care about ANY law or persons anyway...away from officials and ALL normal people. Especially on the heels of what media itself has labeled a very sour economy idling the hands and minds of too many people to begin with.