While our brand of Neo Liberals have also had a soft spot for a little huntin’, fishin’,and shootin’, they have yet to strongly take up a defence of the citizen’s right to bear arms- but watch this space. Since every other public service is being offered up to volunteers, why not the right to bear arms?
Meantime, http://www.thenation.com/blog/157599/its-not-game-sarah-palin-and-madness-march offers an analysis of the way in which the very language in which political dialogue is carried out has been debased by the Republican right and those to the right of them in the Tea Party movement. When does inflammatory and derogatory rhetoric stop being free speech, and become a threat, not just to the individual as events in Arizona show, but become a threat to democracy itself?
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