This is my latest letter to The Tifton Gazette. If it gets published I'll put a link in here. I wrote the last letter because I saw deliberate distortion of the facts designed to spread fear in the extreme right of the USA. JeffK was indeed bold enough to spin the problem around and blame the Democrats. The evidence that JeffK supplied only showed that he failed to understand metaphors and that his entire argument fell down. What he wanted was to scaremonger the extreme right into thinking that armed conflict was just around the corner. And I thought that this was dangerous and that it should get stopped before somebody gets hurt. As it turns out it was too late for Gabrielle Giffords.
Letter to Tifton Gazette 08 January 2011:
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[Opinion] Its Only a Metaphor part 2
In the opinion piece of December 22 we read, “For almost the last two years, we have heard accusations of how dangerous the Tea Party groups are, how they incite violence and are haters of groups of people.”. Now we find out just how dangerous. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was a marked woman. A rifle sight marked her location on a USA map among with nineteen other Democrat congressmen. This map was published on Sarah Palin's website. Obviously this was a metaphor as a reasonable person would have understood that debate and lawful democratic process should be followed and not assassination. Unfortunately there are a few followers of Sarah Palin, possibly also autistic who don't understand metaphors and pursued a sustained hate campaign that ended in tragedy. I would advise all people of the USA to stop using metaphors immediately or at the very least, flag them so there can be no misunderstanding. Some people take things too literally.
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