It was just past noon, nell'Arizona where blood boiling faster than the tea and guns speak louder than the law, when Gabrielle Giffords, a parliamentary democracy, was struck by a bullet in the head at point-blank shot outdoors, during a rally. At least 17 other people present were reached in the storm of bullets fired from a submachine gun.Six were killed and among them a child of nine years. Hours and hours of brain surgery desperate Mr Giffords in the hospital of the city of Tucson, they left in critical condition, the first date for dead, then dying, then with good prospects of survival according to the announcement of surgeon.
It was noon on a real fire, the new policy by western crazy in front of a grocery store in a small shopping center, in these areas once known as "territories of New Mexico," not by chance used the film as a backdrop for the history of violence and summary justice who built the borders of the west and south west.
In doubts, and hopes that still surround the fate of this woman re-elected to the House of Representatives just three months ago after a fierce election battle against one of the most fanatical champions of the "Tea Party" the most extreme that has taken three days recount to assign a seat for a few votes, the attack looks like a news pending, a tragic event expected in the climate of hate that red-hot in recent years, and the advent of ultra right-wing movement of the swell of anger generated.
Giffords is the constituency of the eighth, which covers the ground almost none of the Mexico and Arizona, the place from which to run every night, and often die, the illegal immigrants that travel through the cactus and rattlesnakes along the guides, coyotes, often leaving them to die of thirst.
The Giffords's opponent, Republican Jesse Kelly, had received the investiture of the new patron saint of the ultras, the deer hunter Sarah Palin, and a few weeks before the vote had organized a "public shooting" inviting participants to "delete the Giffords also with guns. " It is not him, Kelly defeated him, to be arrested as a suspect in the shooting, and the possible identity of the bomber that had to have automatic weapons to carry out such a massacre, is kept secret.
But this, nell'Arizona extreme border before immigration legal and illegal in the state where everything is red hot as the sand of the Sonoran Desert that separates Mexico from Tucson, is the fever that is devouring rage and hatred of the citizens and is infecting America. And history shows that American set fires of anger and racial hatred inevitably leads to ideological or political murder.
The outrage and official condemnation that accompanied the hours of waiting for the outcome of surgery on the Giffords and the treatment of many serious injuries, the definition of "despicable attack" came from President Obama that has been experienced while attending the daughter Malia at a meeting of basketball and "senseless act against all of us" spread by the new president of the Chamber just took office, the moderate Republican John Boehner does not change and will not change anything in quell'Arizona who lives the drama of immigration and the insoluble political struggle in the furnace of passion excited by the universal spread of weapons.
Along with Alaska and Vermont, Arizona can carry concealed firearms without a license and failure to have the weapons to shoot and kill easily. The policy meeting, the small rally that Giffords had organized in an anonymous shopping mall in Tucson, a city of one million inhabitants, where now the "white non-Hispanic origin" are 49% of the population, then the minority, did not no special claim to protest, but rather a confirmation of the popularity of the MP, a strong position to wherever it was strongly centrist, but that in hallucination xenophobic or anti-democratic that has gripped so many citizens, must have seemed shockingly left.
Among the audience who attended the meeting, there were children, mothers with babies, latinos, and even a judge of the Federal Court, the highest judiciary. The child and the court were killed. The Arizona Small Kennedy, the MP, is married to an Air Force officer on active duty, Kelly, who fought in Iraq and is part of the team of pilots employed by NASA for space expeditions.
She had always voted for the refinancing of the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, had applauded the decision to use the National Guard, the army territorial every weapon State, to control the border with Mexico just 100 miles from Tucson, but was - and maybe this is the "fault" that went to the crime - allegedly environmentalist, supports public funding of research on embryonic stem unprecedented and contrary to Arizona law that allows police to arrest anyone who appears, be it noted, appears as an immigrant without papers.
This in a city and a state where 33 percent of the population, one in three people, has Latin blood in their veins. In Arizona, County of Mariposa, has reigned for years as a political commissar, the infamous Sheriff Arpajo, relentless pursuer of strangers. On the blog of the fanatics on the right, as in the furious campaign led by the defeated champion of the "Tea Party", the Giffords had been variously described as "a clown", a "perfect example of idiots who govern us from Washington," a " Communist sold to human traffickers "," murderer of unborn children "(embryos) or, being a woman, as the inevitable" whore of the lobby.
" Tomorrow we will know only what damage did the bullet that passed through the skull of Gaby Giffords, although the head of the team of neurosurgeons who have made are "optimistic" on the survival of a woman guilty of nothing but not a fanatical xenophobic. It seems like a small reward of fate, the fact that the head of the surgeons saving her life that could be a foreigner, an immigrant who came from afar.
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