Special Comment: Violence and Threats Have No Place in Democracy (Video)
Saturday 08 January 2011
by: Keith Olbermann, Countdown With Keith Olbermann | Special Comment
The political rhetoric of the country must be changed to prevent acts of domestic terrorism.
In the aftermath of the shooting of 19 people in an attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reminds Americans that “violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our democracy.”
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Let's face it: In a society
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 03:11 — Sayward (not verified)Let's face it: In a society where take-out coffee cups have to carry a "Caution: Contents are very hot" warning label, celebrities and authority figures should be mindful of the potential influence of their words.
RushLimbaugh [since he is
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 09:06 — Anonarcmous (not verified)RushLimbaugh [since he is the eldest] et al what older wo/men or men -- losing their faculties--do, who can no longer reason through mildly complicated concepts/ideas/thoughts--now frustrated at their inadequacies--simply get emotional and blurt out short semi-correct non-applicable common truths to solve all problems.We have the result of such worship and such stupidity.That politicians or public servants cannot take the time to do it well or understand--SenMcCain about the healthcare--"not enough time..." What??Have the pride and intelligence to take the time and do it right.
Yes Keith, violence has no
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 10:55 — Ricky Santelli (not verified)Yes Keith, violence has no place "inside" the country. It's best left for the rest of the world where the US is engaging in civilian eradication, assasinations, weapons sales including engines and guns from your parent company, drone strikes, torture, Git Bay, a President who travels the world as a salesman for Defense Contractors, diplomats who do the same, billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia and Isreal and so on. This entire country thrives on the sale of weapons.
Our democracy??? OUR
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 12:23 — Anonymous (not verified)Our democracy??? OUR democracy? What world and country do you live in? You mean the corporate-upper class democracy that hand-picks politicians and laws and policies to achieve their ends, the fundamental of which is to continue repression, enslavement, and consumption? Violence and threats have a very long history in this undemocratic nation, and continue to be used by the government, corporations, and the media to perpetuate injustice, poverty, and repression.
Keith Olbermann is a complete idiot.
I maintain that Sarah Palin
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 14:11 — Anonymous (not verified)I maintain that Sarah Palin and the four wheel drive "Dude" she consorts with ARE celebrating presently; along with her fundamentalist Christian friends - for whom the violent Old Testament amounts - those these right wing Christians in the Assembly of God church - to a literal instruction to liberate American into an American Religious Fascist State by killing off those they consider to be humanist secularists. I maintain that Sarah Palin believes she has succeeded in attaining what all that hate talk clearly was meant to produce: to kill Democrats, literally, with actual physical guns. And if Obama does not have this woman and Fox News indicted for what they've done, then one can only hope that someday there will be some sort of justice-based retribution against the hideous and violently insane commentators on the Fox News channel along with their proto-fascist, right wing owner: Mr. Murdock; who is the real culprit and IS ultimately responsible for who speaks on his FNN channels.
Maybe it would help to
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 15:14 — Anonymous (not verified)Maybe it would help to quelch the climate of violence in the US if its government damped down its own. Wars, torture centers, drones killing civilians, imprisoning & torturing unindicted citizens,military priorities - all and more make life less valuable and thus may lower the threshold for casual killing.
Let’s have a more
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 15:21 — Richard R Carlson (not verified)Let’s have a more inclusive soul searching. The degree to which inflammatory language, threats and implicit instigations to violence have become a steady undercurrent in the nation’s political culture must be confronted.It is not only the part it played in the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, but the possible violence that could result from the call for the assassination of Julian Assange.
I just say Amen, even if he
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 15:36 — Bubbiesue (not verified)I just say Amen, even if he prays a bit long.
Already, the rumors are
Sun, 01/09/2011 - 16:37 — S.O.Teric (not verified)Already, the rumors are flying: the shooter is a left-winger; he once watched a youtube video on Marx: the left is going to use this incident to take away people's guns; the left is going to use this moment to restrict First and Second Amendment rights; the US is going to turn into a left-wing gulag.
Don't suck for these deliberate provocations; don't make any unreasonable charges. Just demand a trial. The shooter must be watched constantly; no one should get close enough to pull a Jack Ruby on him. Get him in court. Let the whole story come out.
When will Palin and Beck be
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 09:55 — Anonymous (not verified)When will Palin and Beck be indicted for incitement?
psychotic violent
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 10:17 — Anonymous (not verified)psychotic violent toys,movies,video games, music ,violence has every right to manifest itself in our culture we are drowning a tidal wave of it constantly, we deny what we've become,this tragedy is predictable , its getting harder to lie to ourselves ,,,,from freedom into chaos
Lady Shondra seems to be
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:04 — Anonymous (not verified)Lady Shondra seems to be taking things rather personally. Is it defensiveness, guilt, or is she being paid by the word?
Mr. Olbermann holds that
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 13:44 — Dieter Heymann (not verified)Mr. Olbermann holds that Rush Limbaugh and most of Fox news is not news but entertainment. I hold that his ridiculing of Sarah Palin, while often greatly amusing, is not news either but is entertainment too.
Peace to you all. US
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 20:59 — Anonymous (not verified)Peace to you all. US Rep.Michelle Bachman (Idiot, I mean Republican from MN) just last week urged her constituents to be "armed and dangerous." How will she spin this in response to reasoned and eloquent remarks like Olberman's. I know she will not apologize or change her rhetoric. How tragic. How sad.
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