Letâs discuss the breakdown in civility now, Sarah.
Thursdayâs attack on The Capital Gazette in Annapolis came amid months of verbal and online attacks on the âfake news mediaâ from politicians and others from President Donald Trump on down.
Please change this to âfrom Republicans from President Trump on down.â
I donât recall this âfake newsâ continual attack, or treating the press as the âenemy of the peopleâ being something Democrats or any other political group does.
Small town newspapers are under siege economically, now the subjects of their stories feel free to open fire. My heart goes out to every victim and their families. My admiration goes out to all those who toil in the newspaper business for not much money and less recognition. They all have honored places on the front lines of the American experience.
Of course, we wonât hear a word from the vicious enabler in chief. He will continue to spew his âfake newsâ meme whenever a journalist tells the truth.
What people havenât talked about yet is the shooter seems to have had long standing mental issues. Had they been treated?
At the White House, spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said: âThere is no room for violence, and we stick by that. Violence is never tolerated in any form, no matter whom it is against.â
What a bold, ground-breaking position to take. We stick by that? I mean, WTF?
no matter whom it is against Yeah, weâre gonna even go so far as to suggest that it might not be okay to kill the fake media.
When you use words like âenemy of the peopleâ, you really expect your merry band of koolaid drinkers not to follow suit. Those victims and families should sue Trump for painting a target on them.
You mean as Milo said?
Of course, when called out on it, Milo Yiannopoulos said he was just joking. Guess itâs not so funny now, is it?
This blood of journalists is on trumpâs hands
Drop the mike
Remember trump urging violence at his campaign rallies? Even mimicking punching someone? I do. He is an accessory after the fact.
Accessory before the fact. Indict the motherfucking fascist.
> Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said the community was grieving the attack on its paper.
> âThese are the guys that come to city council meetings, have to listen to boring politicians and sit there,â Buckley said. âThey donât make a lot of money. Itâs just immoral that their lives should be in danger.â
Thank you, Mayor Buckley. You have a rare understanding of and appreciation for the value of a community newspaper.
Hmm, I wonder how long or not Fox News will cover this story? On one hand the victims were jouranlists, same business they are suppose to be, and on the other they first had someone scan the editorial to see if they were ârightâ kind of newspaper to be concerned about.
I donât mind being corrected. I am no lawyer. An indictment would be nice. We have waited a year for Mueller to get around to it and i wonder if he ever will.
Hamhock, it was your boss who called journalists âthe enemy of the peopleâ. Thereâs blood on his hands.
If this were a Latino or Muslim shooter, Trump would be all over it.
This is turning into a local story so the national press is naturally drifting away, but I think we all need to remember that this guy has been roaming the streets for years without help. I would like to know what triggered his explosion right now. Did he feel empowered by all the âFake Newsâ talk spewing out of the White House?
What a lot of folks donât understand is most towns have a bunch of locals who are only partially hinged. Most of them never turn violent, but they are always seething, blaming others for all their problems. They are known to the police, the newspapers and the local bench and bar. Sometimes they are known to the local mental health people. They constitute the pool of people from whom mass murderers often spring. Mostly they are untreated.
Throughout my career as a small town lawyer I worried about the crazies in my town as individuals and prayed none of them would shoot up a local establishment, like my office. A lot of small town lawyers have guns in their desk drawers to protect themselves from just such an eventuality. The guns donât really protect them but they feel better when they have to interview a crazy or his victim.
What Iâm afraid of is, the initial identification of the shooter had the last name as âRamosâ. Sorry, but thatâs not exactly northern European in origin. I expect this to be an issue, if the story gets more publicity.