Daily World Buzz: Massacre Tucson, slide the vote against Obama's health care reform

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Massacre Tucson, slide the vote against Obama's health care reform

There is already a first political repercussions of the massacre of Tucson. The speaker of the House Republican John Boehner, has decided to postpone the vote, set for Wednesday against Barack Obama's health care reform. "One way to svelenire the political climate," said Boehner. The decision of the speaker still has not calmed the protests of the democratic people, through thousands of messages on the Internet Tea Party accuses of having armed the hand that killed six people and seriously injured the Democrat Gabrielle Giffords (surveys immediately rejected by many in Conservatives, who in turn accuse the Democrats of "looting").

For County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, however, is precisely the "vitriolic political climate in Washington actually responsible for the tragedy. In fact, it seems that the alleged killer has particular political connections. 22, Jared Loughner, this is his name, has in recent months repeatedly expressed serious mental health problems.

Last October, he retired from Pima Community College (but the university authorities had already called his parents for the frequent outbursts of verbal abuse of the boy. No mate wanted to sit with him more in class). In his Youtube page, from the list of favorite books, there are Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto (and also Alice in Wonderland).

In a series of videos, also on YouTube, Jared has assembled incoherent phrases on currency, mind control, and paramilitary. Very few details about his political views. "I especially loved the religion," and "consider abortion murder," say now his high school classmates, who describe him as a skinny guy, intelligent, with a great passion for basketball and grammar.

" Therefore difficult to tie Jared Loughner to any group or political idea. "I checked all 4000 members of the Tucson Tea Party, and there is no trace of the boy," says local leader of the movement, Trent Humphries, to finally clear the ground by the suspect. The massacre of Tucson, however, does not seem to be explained outside of politics.

The objective of the meeting was in fact a Democratic moderate, Gabrielle Giffords, who in recent months has become among the most frequent targets of Republican controversy. In August 2009, at the time of the first clashes on health care reform (that Giffords supported) a man was arrested in possession of a weapon at a meeting of the Member.

The windows of his office in Tucson were shattered at the time of the passage of the reform. And in his map of seats to win the recent midterm elections, Sarah Palin placed the cross of a viewfinder on the name of Giffords (especially now that it is particularly the left). Investigators in these hours that bring together the pieces of history (and looking for a possible accomplice, a man between 40 and 50, in blue jacket and jeans, picked up by video of the mall where he unleashed the fury of the killer) speculate that it was precisely this political climate particularly "vitriolic", as explained by the sheriff Dupnik, to act on an already disturbed personality like that of Loughner.

Controversy over health care, immigration, taxes have poisoned the rest rarely as the political climate in the past. Arizona, in particular, has proved in recent months, an incubator of political and social tensions to explode. If Barack Obama's health care reform has led to protests and appeals (Patrick Beck, president of a local Tea Party, claimed the right to violent rebellion against the encroachments of Washington), has been largely the new immigration law, wanted by Republican Governor Jane Brewer, to inflame.

The law, which gives the right to stop a citizen only suspected of illegal immigration, has become the glue and the engine for a number of groups, particularly in Arizona but also in other parts of the country, advocating the thesis of the radical right and racist. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the last year these groups have grown by 80% in the U.S..

Roberto Festa