The first shots of the American Civil War rang out across
the southern landscape not far from the water’s edge in the early morning hours
that fateful spring day.
No, it
wasn’t Fort Sumter near Charlestown, South Carolina, in April of 1861. It was
on a ball field in Alexandria, Virginia earlier today. The shooting phase of
the Second American Civil War has begun.
In this case, the assassin, James T. Hodgkinson from Belleville,
Illinois, was killed by Capitol police after injuring five people, including
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, when he opened fire on a Republican
congressional baseball practice. Hodgkinson was a Trump-hating Democrat and
ardent Bernie Sanders supporter who had threatened to “destroy” the president
and his administration on social media. He was a member of the FaceBook group, “Terminate
the Republican Party.” He chose the day of the president’s 71st
birthday to launch his attack. The 66-year-old would-be mass-murderer, who had
a history of domestic violence, including punching a woman in the face,
apparently fired nearly 100 rounds from his assault rifle in his attempt to
kill as many Republicans as possible. Representative Scalise was shot in the
hip, two Capitol police officers accompanying him were shot as they returned
fire, and a lobbyist and congressional staffer were also shot. Rep. Scalise and
Matt Mika, the lobbyist, are still in critical condition. Thankfully, the
others are expected to make a full recovery.
Hodgkinson asked one of the lawmakers, prior
to opening fire, if they were Republicans or Democrats.
It is a
depraved new world.
There are Islamic terrorists asking
people if they are Christians before killing them. And now we have left-wing
fascists asking people if they are Republicans before attacking them, as well.
Innocent people are being maimed and slaughtered for the religious or political
beliefs they hold.
The
attacks are no longer figurative. They are no longer just faux beheadings in a
“photoshoot,” or portrayals of assassination in a dumb-ass play by deranged
thespians. They are real. Democrats constantly used to bemoan the “coarsening” of
language in our political “debates.” They pompously tut-tutted about the
“politics of personal destruction.” And now their unending engagement in- or tolerance
of- every form of hatred and every vile act directed against the Trump
administration, and Republicans or conservatives in general, has reached its
logical culmination. The media, academia and Hollywood are also directly
complicit in fostering an atmosphere of outright hatred and intolerance towards
those who possess views differing from their own.
They have all come down with
Hodgkinson’s Disease.
According
to reports, shortly after the shooter opened fire on Republican lawmakers
practicing for an annual charity baseball game, the office of Rep. Claudia
Tenney (R-N.Y.) received an email with the subject line, “One down, 216 to go…”
If a
second Civil War transpires, it won’t be the Blue versus the Gray. It will be the
Blue States vs. the Red States. And it will occur because one side, the
leftists/progressives/socialists, will not recognize or accept election
results, differing viewpoints, or even the rule of law in its mad quest for
control.
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[Tragically,
this attack occurred just hours after I wrote and posted: “…if any group needs
and deserves taxpayer-funded safe spaces going forward it is conservatives.”
(See my post, “Muslim Group Demands Taxpayer-Funded Safe Spaces;” June 13th,
2017). I do not claim to be Nostradamus, nor would I want to be, but events
I’ve foreseen in my blog posts seem to happen far too frequently and far too
quickly].
It turns out Hodgkinson had a list of Republican names in his pocket that was recovered by the FBI, The Daily Caller reports. This proves the shooting was not a random outburst, but a premeditated political assassination. The list was written out on notepad paper found in the shooter’s pocket, and included at least six congressmen who are members of the House Freedom Caucus, which is comprised of the lower chamber’s most conservative members. (Update as of 6/16/2017; p.m.)
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