Let's all lower our voices, form a circle and sing Kumbaya? Sad as it is, that's the message the mainstream gullible media are all calling for. Even the Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, seemed tired and subdued when he appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

It was as if someone had pulled him aside, constrained him and told him to tone down his words after he said that Arizona had become a Mecca of prejudice and bigotry.

Sheriff Dupnik's words were spoken with passion and honesty in the aftermath of the horror of the 6 deaths and critically wounding of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head by a crazed maniac at a public gathering in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday, January 8. Soon after those words were broadcast to the nation right wing radio shock jock, Neal Boortz, was all over that statement in a nanosecond. He was joined by Arizona's right-wing Senator Jon Kyl demanding Dupnik's resignation.

That's how it works in Republican/Tea Party Land. Instant response in a blitzkrieg-like attack at the slightest hint that Republican-fomented violence during the 2010 election campaign could have had anything to do with the shooting of a Democratic congresswoman who won reelection in a Republican-heavy district. Even the Dixie Chicks were not attacked with such instant fury by the right-wing Dobermans as was Sheriff Dupnik.

After the Republican­s and their Tea Party spawn spread the most despicable lies over health care reform, inflammato­ry attack ads like Second Amendment remedies urging some lone wolf to "take out" a Democratic Party candidate, the media are exhorting us to lower our voices.

Sarah Palin's Reload web site posted gun sight cross hairs over Democrats' names and congressio­nal districts and a withering fusillade of right-wing rhetoric spewed out the mouths of hatemonger nonpareil, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News Beck, Palin and Hannity during the 2010 election.

Xenophobic laws in Arizona were driven by bigotry and aimed directly at brown-skin­ned people, nonstop spewage from right-wing birthers are still doing whatever they can to plant seeds of suspicions about the president'­s birth certificat­e. It just never ends.

Yes, let's all gather round and let the healing take place -- until next year when once again the media will be teeming with the same Republican deluge of incendiary attacks and vitriol that succeeded so well in 2010.

We all know this: Republican­s will do whatever it takes to win. Nobody can come close to their propaganda machine when gaining power is their chief motivator.

Just ask former Georgia U.S. Senator Max Cleland who lost three limbs fighting for his country in Viet Nam only to face Republican charges in 2002 that he was a friend of Osama bin Laden and a traitor to his country. His opponent, Saxby Chambliss, won. He never served a lick in uniform.

After all, hasn't that always been the Republican way? Talk big, incite fear and violence but get surrogates like their Tea Party extremists to strut around town hall meetings with their Gadsden flags, Glocks and Berettas and incendiary slogans, waving signs accusing the president of not being a legitimate American citizen, accusing him of being a Nazi, Marxist-Socialist who wants the terrorists to win, take over health care and create "death panels."

Now that a Democratic Party congresswoman has finally been "taken out", not by a random shooting, but by a planned and deliberate assassination, we are all told to lick our wounds and play nice to a Republican Party leadership that spent the last two years subverting our government, tearing down our president and on record vowing to shut down every federal agency unless they get their way.

And what is that way? Spend the rest of this year throttling progress, stalling legislation, demagogue, lie and threaten to "take out" more of their opponents by whatever means in their arsenal of hate and violence.

Nobody now can say we weren't warned.
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