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Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Paul Rigby - 11-01-2011
All change, all change...
Quote:Doctor: Giffords has '101 percent chance' of surviving
Congresswoman has moving both arms, breathing on her own
msnbc.com news services
Doctors initially thought the bullet entered the back of the skull and exited the front, but after reviewing X-rays and brain scans, two outside physicians brought in by Giffords' medical team now believe that Giffords was likely shot in the front of her head.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41018273/ns/health-health_care/
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Paul Rigby - 11-01-2011
Paul Rigby Wrote:All change, all change...
Quote:Doctor: Giffords has '101 percent chance' of surviving
Congresswoman has moving both arms, breathing on her own
msnbc.com news services
Doctors initially thought the bullet entered the back of the skull and exited the front, but after reviewing X-rays and brain scans, two outside physicians brought in by Giffords' medical team now believe that Giffords was likely shot in the front of her head.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41018273/ns/health-health_care/
Updated EST 3: 43 PM: New York Times reports a witness saying: "the gunman approached her from behind, held a gun about a foot from her head and began firing. 'He must have got off 20 rounds,' he said."
http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/01/08/us_congresswoman_shot
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Paul Rigby - 11-01-2011
Paul Rigby Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:All change, all change...
Quote:Doctor: Giffords has '101 percent chance' of surviving
Congresswoman has moving both arms, breathing on her own
msnbc.com news services
Doctors initially thought the bullet entered the back of the skull and exited the front, but after reviewing X-rays and brain scans, two outside physicians brought in by Giffords' medical team now believe that Giffords was likely shot in the front of her head.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41018273/ns/health-health_care/
Updated EST 3: 43 PM: New York Times reports a witness saying: "the gunman approached her from behind, held a gun about a foot from her head and began firing. 'He must have got off 20 rounds,' he said."
http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/01/08/us_congresswoman_shot
NB The original Salon page has now been edited to remove the entry for EST 3:43 PM. It was all a most terrible misunderstanding.
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Ed Jewett - 12-01-2011
Someone off to the side was taking cell phone video footage, no? And sent it to their friends (via the NSA) and...
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - David Guyatt - 12-01-2011
Paul Rigby Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:All change, all change...
Quote:Doctor: Giffords has '101 percent chance' of surviving
Congresswoman has moving both arms, breathing on her own
msnbc.com news services
Doctors initially thought the bullet entered the back of the skull and exited the front, but after reviewing X-rays and brain scans, two outside physicians brought in by Giffords' medical team now believe that Giffords was likely shot in the front of her head.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41018273/ns/health-health_care/
Updated EST 3: 43 PM: New York Times reports a witness saying: "the gunman approached her from behind, held a gun about a foot from her head and began firing. 'He must have got off 20 rounds,' he said."
http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/01/08/us_congresswoman_shot
NB The original Salon page has now been edited to remove the entry for EST 3:43 PM. It was all a most terrible misunderstanding.
Perhaps someone should ask Salon why that update was removed? I've also checked the N Y Times live blog for around that time on the 8th and can see nothing that even hints at the direction the shots came from. But perhaps Salon got that report from other than the NY Times live blog?
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Peter Lemkin - 12-01-2011
" … The term blood libel' refers to the slander, dating to the late Middle Ages, that Jews serially kidnapped and murdered Christian children to use their blood in rituals. … "
By Chris Good
The Atlantic | January 12, 2011
A liberal pro-Israel lobbying group is calling on Sarah Palin to apologize after she accused the media of "manufactur[ing] a blood libel" against her and conservatives after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami in a statement released Wednesday:
J Street is saddened by Governor Palin's use of the term "blood libel."
The country's attention is rightfully focused on the memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shooting. Our prayers continue to be with those who are still fighting to recover and the families of the victims. The last thing the country needs now is for the rhetoric in the wake of this tragedy to return to where it was before.
We hope that Governor Palin will recognize, when it is brought to her attention, that the term "blood libel" brings back painful echoes of a very dark time in our communal history when Jews were falsely accused of committing heinous deeds. When Governor Palin learns that many Jews are pained by and take offense at the use of the term, we are sure that she will choose to retract her comment, apologize and make a less inflammatory choice of words.
The term "blood libel" refers to the slander, dating to the late Middle Ages, that Jews serially kidnapped and murdered Christian children to use their blood in rituals. After such accusations were leveled, Jews frequently were persecuted and killed. The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, who publish essays on religious tolerance, hold up this explanation and timeline of the term.
UPDATE: More pro-Israel and Jewish groups criticize Palin's use of the term.
The Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism, wishes Palin would have used a different term, one that isn't so "fraught with pain in Jewish history." From its national director, Abraham Foxman:
It is unfortunate that the tragedy in Tucson continues to stimulate a political blame game. Rather than step back and reflect on the lessons to be learned from this tragedy, both parties have reverted to political partisanship and finger-pointing at a time when the American people are looking for leadership, not more vitriol. In response to this tragedy we need to rise above partisanship, incivility, heated rhetoric, and the business-as-usual approaches that are corroding our political system and tainting the atmosphere in Washington and across the country.
It was inappropriate at the outset to blame Sarah Palin and others for causing this tragedy or for being an accessory to murder. Palin has every right to defend herself against these kinds of attacks, and we agree with her that the best tradition in America is one of finding common ground despite our differences.
Still, we wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase "blood-libel" in reference to the actions of journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on others. While the term "blood-libel" has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history.
David Harris, president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, says Palin escalated her rhetoric and wonders whether she knows what "blood libel" means:
Following this weekend's tragedy, we and many others simply did two things: we prayed for our friend Gabby while keeping all of the murdered and wounded in our thoughts and prayers, and we talked in broad terms about our increasingly charged level of political debate asserting that now is as good a time as any to look inward and assess how all of us need to dial back the level of vitriol and anger in our public square. Nobody can disagree with the need for both.
Instead of dialing down the rhetoric at this difficult moment, Sarah Palin chose to accuse others trying to sort out the meaning of this tragedy of somehow engaging in a "blood libel" against her and others. This is of course a particularly heinous term for American Jews, given that the repeated fiction of blood libels are directly responsible for the murder of so many Jews across centuries and given that blood libels are so directly intertwined with deeply ingrained anti-Semitism around the globe, even today.
Perhaps Sarah Palin honestly does not know what a blood libel is, or does not know of their horrific history; that is perhaps the most charitable explanation we can arrive at in explaining her rhetoric today.
All we had asked following this weekend's tragedy was for prayers for the dead and wounded, and for all of us to take a step back and look inward to see how we can improve the tenor of our coarsening public debate. Sarah Palin's invocation of a "blood libel" charge against her perceived enemies is hardly a step in the right direction.
And from Simon Greer, president of Jewish Funds for Justice:
We are deeply disturbed by Fox News commentator Sarah Palin's decision to characterize as a "blood libel" the criticism directed at her following the terrorist attack in Tucson. The term "blood libel" is not a synonym for "false accusation." It refers to a specific falsehood perpetuated by Christians about Jews for centuries, a falsehood that motivated a good deal of anti-Jewish violence and discrimination. Unless someone has been accusing Ms. Palin of killing Christian babies and making matzoh from their blood, her use of the term is totally out-of-line.
In the past two months, Ms. Palin and Glenn Beck, the most well-known media personalities on Fox News, have abused two of the most tragic episode in the history of the Jewish people: the Holocaust and the blood libel. In addition, Roger Ailes, the head of the Fox News channel, referred to the executives at NPR as "Nazis." Perhaps the popular news channel has such an ingrained victim mentality that it identifies with one of the most persecuted minorities in human history. But the Jewish community does not appreciate their identification, which only serves to denigrate the very real pain so many Jews have suffered because of anti-Semitic violence. It is clear that Fox News has a Jewish problem.
Sarah Palin did not shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Only the perpetrator can be found guilty for this act of terrorism. But it is worth pointing out that it was Rep. Giffords herself who first objected to Ms. Palin's map showing her district in the crosshairs. "We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, the way she has it depicted, it has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that they have to realize that there are consequences to that action." According to Ms. Palin's logic, Rep. Giffords statement was a blood libel against the Fox News host. The fact that Rep. Giffords is Jewish and Ms. Palin is Christian makes the accusation even more grotesque.
Ms. Palin clearly took some time to reflect before putting out her statement today. Despite that time, her primary conclusion was that she is the victim and Rep. Giffords is the perpetrator. As a powerful rhetorical advocate for personal responsibility, Ms. Palin has failed to live up to her own standards with this statement.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/pro-israel-groups-palin-must-apologize-for-blood-libel-accusation/69400/
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Peter Lemkin - 14-01-2011
Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona Shooting Prompts Resignations
By Edythe Jensen
The Arizona Republic | Jan. 11, 2011
A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign.
Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that election and Internet blog posts by some local members with Tea Party ties made him worry about his family's safety.
In an e-mail sent a few hours after Saturday's massacre in Tucson that killed six and injured 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Miller told state Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen he was quitting: "Today my wife of 20 yrs ask (sic) me do I think that my PCs (Precinct Committee members) will shoot at our home? So with this being said I am stepping down from LD20GOP Chairman … I will make a full statement on Monday."
Pullen was in Washington, D.C. and not available for comment, an employee in his office said. State party spokesman Matt Roberts said he could not discuss details of the district's disputes but, "Anthony has been a good Republican and was really involved in LD20."
The newly-elected Dist. 20 Republican secretary, Sophia Johnson of Ahwatukee, first vice chairman Roger Dickinson of Tempe and Jeff Kolb, the former district spokesman from Ahwatukee, also quit. "This singular focus on getting' Anthony (Miller) was one of the main reasons I chose to resign," Kolb said in an e-mail to another party activist. Kolb confirmed the contents of the e-mail to the Republic.
District 20 includes parts of Chandler, south Tempe and Ahwatukee Foothills. Republican state Rep. Bob Robson of Chandler and Sen. John McComish of Ahwatukee said they had supported Miller as chairman and were sorry to see him go. "It's too bad," McComish said. "He didn't deserve to be hounded out of office."
A longtime Republican activist, McComish said contentious battles for local party leadership posts are nothing new, but this one appears to be more extreme, especially since there are no partisan elections in 2011 and by next year district boundaries will change.
Kolb said the Tea Party and associated conservative groups ran their slate of candidates for seven Dist. 20 leadership positions, winning three the treasurer's post and two vice-chairmanships. However, Miller beat challenger Thomas Morrissey for the top post after Sheriff Joe Arpaio made a personal appearance for Morrissey. Phone messages left for Morrissey were not returned.
After the election and around the December holiday season, some of Miller's detractors made an issue of the residency of Dickinson, the first vice-chairman. Dickinson, who did not return phone messages, was a supporter of Miller's and allegedly moved to a different precinct within Dist. 20 last year, making him ineligible for the leadership post. Miller said he told the critics he would handle the matter after the holidays. In the meantime, a series of accusatory e-mails was exchanged among party members. Some blasted Miller's support of McCain, called him a "McCainiac with a penchant for violating the rules" and a "McCain hack."
Members of the Ahwatukee Tea Party group did not respond to e-mails seeking comment.
Miller said when he was a member of McCain's campaign staff last year has been criticized by the more conservative party members who supported Republican opponent J.D. Hayworth. The first and only African-American to hold the party's precinct chairmanship, Miller said he has been called "McCain's boy," and during the campaign saw a critic form his hand in the shape of a gun and point it at him.
"I wasn't going to resign but decided to quit after what happened Saturday," Miller said. "I love the Republican Party but I don't want to take a bullet for anyone."
http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html#ixzz1AwZSC0PQ
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - David Guyatt - 14-01-2011
Paul Rigby Wrote:All change, all change...
Quote:Doctor: Giffords has '101 percent chance' of surviving
Congresswoman has moving both arms, breathing on her own
msnbc.com news services
Doctors initially thought the bullet entered the back of the skull and exited the front, but after reviewing X-rays and brain scans, two outside physicians brought in by Giffords' medical team now believe that Giffords was likely shot in the front of her head.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41018273/ns/health-health_care/
Btw, this is what happened when Israeli PM, Yitzak Rabin was assassinated. But in reverse.
The apparent killer, a young zealot shot two shots from behind.
That's all.
Which always raises the question why the kill shot was a contact shot to Rabin's chest.
Things change quickly as the following cover-up gets properly dialled in.
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Paul Rigby - 15-01-2011
Was this the moment Obama won back America? (This section p29):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/13/tucson-memorial-speech-verdict-president
Exterminatory liberal imperialism obviously feels need to retain its non-white mask
Arizona Congresswoman Shot dead at point-blank range moments ago~! - Magda Hassan - 15-01-2011
A nice warm fuzzy feel good speech. A bed time story. A Lullabye. No social or political context of course. We are all just lone nuts in their narrative. Billions of lone nuts all acting as individuals. Except if you are Muslim in which case it is all organised. Fancy that?