The White Shadow Dojo is a Martial Arts school run by Gwynne and David in western New York. This blog features information on our book "The Rhythm of One", our class offerings, a calendar of events, an edged weapons forum, articles on knife design, and a community space for the research and dissemination of Martial Arts. "Sometimes irreverant, often opinionated, always brutally honest."

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Day Two

All normal, sane, and caring people are praying for Congresswoman Giffords and the others touched by this tragedy. But the Witch Hunt has already started. The media declared her dead and then not dead, two shooters, not two shooters, maybe a person in the crowd returning fire, or not. The story is more important than the truth!

Before the gunsmoke even cleared the shooter was described by main stream media as: rightwing, teabagger, afghanistan war veteran. He was labeled as a "possible" member of the Patriot Movement, The American Rennaisance, and an advocate of Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto. People in line for blame are Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck (of course) Glock and hi-capacity mags. Semi-auto pistols and concealed carry laws. Lets get a rope and lynch them all!

Congress has stopped their work, not out of respect to the dead but out of concerns about their own safety, like this was an epidemic spread by hate mongering conservatives. I must be deficient. I have never read the communist manifesto or mein kampf. I fail to see how these writings are in anyway aligned with patriotism or the tennets of the conservative party. But I am sure some will find a way to further poison the already toxic state of divisive politics and, in the words of Rahm Emanuel, not let a good crisis go to waste. Let us focus back on the pain and suffering of the wounded and the survivors and wait for the truth to reveal itself.

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