I don't know if it's the writers blind and incurious acceptance of the narrative which has reverberated in the leftist echo chamber since Paul Krugman penned this smug bit of sophistry in last Thursdays NY Times, or the Advertiser's lack of judgment in publishing the letter writers lies. Whatever it is my response will probably not make it to the Advertiser's letters section, and if by some miracle it does will most likely be incomprehensible due to lack of context and the constraints of the Advertiser's character limit which caused me to eviscerate my original response.
At any rate, I offer my original letter here in context with that of the liberal pea-brain from Lahaina as the cartharsis I will doubtlessly not receive from 'Hawai'i's complete source'
The Offending Letter:
Republicans
Palin is accessory to acts of violence
On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin stated we need to "reload," and "take aim" at a list of Democrats after the health care bill was passed. Then she put cross hairs on Democratic candidates.
As a result, law enforcement authorities investigated the discovery of a cut propane gas line at the Virginia home of Rep. Tom Perriello's (D-Va.) brother.
A tea party organizer published what he thought was the freshman member's home address on a blog, in case any readers "want to drop by" and provide a "personal touch" to their views.
Republicans like Palin are becoming an accessory to the unlawful actions against Democrats.
An accessory charge is a for person who, though not present during the commission of a felony, is guilty of having aided and abetted another, who committed the felony.
If Sarah Palin didn't mean to encourage unlawful behavior then she would have come out and apologized for not being impeccable with her word — but she didn't.
Sarah Palin should be prosecuted on accessory charges to any crime directed toward the list of Democrats she laid out with cross hairs. This Republican strategy is deeply disturbing!
Justin Hughley
Lahaina, Maui
My Response:
I'm wondering who Justin Hughley is quoting in his March, 30th letter condemning Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers, and Republicans, but whoever it is, it 's definitely not Palin.
A simple visit to the Facebook entry in question belies the writers assertions. There was indeed a placement of cross hairs in that entry, but they were not "on Democratic candidates" as the writer describes, but rather on a map of Congressional districts where as Mrs. Palin writes:
"We’ll aim for these races and many others. This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington."
It is therefore difficult to understand Mr. Hughley's contention that the cutting of a gas line at the Virginia home of Rep. Tom Perriello's (D-Va.) brother occurred "as a result", especially since the act took place before Palin's blog entry
By the writer's logic it's not difficult to imagine who might be liable for accessory charges in last week's throwing of bricks through GOP office windows in Charlottesville, or the firing of bullets through Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-Va) Richmond office window, and the on-line death threats made to Cantor and his family by the alleged shooter.
Needless to say if I'd had the space I could go on to admonish Mr. Hughley about his ignorance of the law, his typical leftist intolerance of free speech, or that demokrats have manufactured this issue to avoid an argument of their insidious health care bill which they can't win on merit.
But what I'd really like to do here is call attention to this blog post on Verum Serum (hat tip to Daniel Foster at NRO's The Corner) which should cause Paul Krugman to eat his words.
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