Two days after the shooting that claimed the lives of six persons and seriously wounded the elected Democrat Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, America began a painful soul-searching - an extended session of introspection General claimed, on Saturday, by the sheriff in charge of the investigation. The term was coined in the public and the press across the Atlantic, soon challenged by another concept, that of political rhetoric.Because behind the "killing of Tucson" there are pathological delusions of a man, but also ruled unanimously deleterious political climate. A climate summary by Democrat Steny Hoyer in the program "Face the Nation on CBS:" The political environment of these two or three years has been more violent, more aggressive than anything we've experienced in the past.
" At issue, therefore, the "political rhetoric" in force since the accession of Barack Obama to the White House. The Washington Post has sought to identify the most excessive of these recent contributions to public debate: the menu, word warrior and ad hominem attacks. Emanating mostly Republicans or members of the Tea Party, these attacks can be perpetrated by Democrats as the campaign of the governor of West Virginia.
For many newspapers, the climate reminded of some dark moments in American history: the violence of the Vietnam War had once echoed on American soil, "writes the New York Times, with its share of murders and riots, like the debates on abortion or guns in the 1990s led to the bombing in Oklahoma City.
"What is new with this case is the emergence of a political culture - through blogs, Twitter, or by the proliferation of television channels - which amplifies the rantings of extremists," the newspaper analysis. USA Today reminds his side that the number of death threats against members of Congress has tripled in the second half of 2010.
Gabrielle Giffords, she had been threatened for supporting the reform of Medicare. In March, windows of his house were broken by unknown just hours after the adoption of the text. The elected denounced the harsh statements against him from the Republican camp. She particularly referred to a map released by the former candidate for vice-presidency, Sarah Palin.
This map, prepared by his political action committee, showed an America riddled with rifle sights. Each finder designated a riding camp heard Palin win. The Eighth District of Arizona, that Gabrielle Giffords, was referred. From there to directly accuse Ms. Palin is a step that some dare to cross - "I wonder how Sarah Palin stayed last night," launches this article published on the Huffington Post - but that is usually avoided with more finesse by columnists: "Those with mental disorders act according to their fantasies, but they draw their vocabulary, their imagination and concerns of the surrounding culture.
(...) In the killing of Tucson, which operates in a context of political controversy violent call to action, a disturbed young man probably has perhaps pulled the trigger, but many other hands, more respectable, guided the barrel, "wrote the columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle. In the Huffington Post, Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater edge: "We are all responsible," says he, having left America turn into a violent society in which any debate, starting with the gun control becomes an exchange of replicas excessive and brutal.
The shock just cashed, commentators ask: how can the country get up there? "The question now is whether the killing on Saturday marks the end of an era or the beginning of a new era more terrifying," wrote The New York Times. The immediate notes USA Today, elected officials will mute their differences: Sarah Palin multiplies the outputs conciliatory, Barack Obama has put the flags at half mast and the Republicans announced that it was postponing the scheduled vote Wednesday in the House the health reform.
Then, prophesy the Washington Post, elected officials will review security procedures that accompany their release in public and get away a little more of their citizens, "what constitutes an insult to a country where to assemble in peace is a right guaranteed by the Constitution. " As a result, the San Francisco Chronicle ventured: "Maybe that will change the tone in American politics, maybe everyone will embrace the values and find bipartisan common language appeased.
Maybe members of the Tea Party and their supporters will realize that it must be more measured. And maybe it will 90 degrees in the shade, tomorrow in Washington DC. " Le Monde. en
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