In case you’ve missed it, there’s a lot of anger-management therapy talk going on about calming down the heated political oratory in this deeply divided nation. The reasoning behind the calls for muting our tongues is that the vocalized anger might cause people to commit crimes of violence.
Balderdash, says I. Rightist Rush Limbaugh has been targeted for his hot political rhetoric. So has Michael Savage.
But, here’s a heated analogy replete with a violent allusion from the current President, himself. I despise what he’s done to the country and I vehemently disagree with him and I’ll vote for the other guy (or gal) whoever it is, come November 2012.
But what he said doesn’t bother me a bit and he can keep saying whatever he wants to say.
And so can the right-wingers.
With thanks to The Drudge Report, here’s a link to a 2008 Wall Street Journal report about a Barack Obama speech wherein he told his followers to bring a gun to the political knife fight:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/
“Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Philadelphia.
“Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight?
That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”…”
Barack Obama’s words are not responsible for what happened in Tucson and neither are Rush Limbaugh’s or Michael Savage’s.
This is why God gave us mouths – to express ourselves. Obama got one. Rush got one, too. Savage, too. And they can all use them to maximum effect. Let ’em all talk, says I.
So, I’d be a lot happier if all the politicians would stop pointing their fingers at each other and look straight at that son-of-a-bitch that pulled the trigger down there in Tucson.
About John L. Work
John Lloyd Work has taken the detective thriller genre and woven an occasional political thread throughout his books, morphing what was once considered an arena reserved for pure fiction into believable, terrifying, futuristic, true-to-life “faction”.
He traveled the uniformed patrolman’s path, answering brutal domestic violence calls, high speed chases, homicides, suicides, armed robberies, breaking up bar fights, and the accompanying sporadic unpredictable moments of terror - which eventually come to all police officers, sometimes when least expected. He gradually absorbed the hard fact that the greatest danger a cop faces comes in the form of day-to-day encounters with emotionally disturbed, highly intoxicated people. Those experiences can wear a cop down, grinding on his own emotions and psyche. Prolonged exposure to the worst of people and people at their worst can soon make him believe that the world is a sewer. That police officer’s reality is a common thread throughout Work’s crime fiction books.
Following his graduation from high school, Work studied music and became a professional performer, conductor and teacher. Life made a sudden, unexpected turn when, one afternoon in 1976, his cousin, who eventually became the Chief of the Ontario, California, Police Department, talked him into riding along during a patrol shift. The musician was hooked into becoming a police officer.
After working for two years as a reserve officer in Southern California and in Boulder, Colorado, he joined the Longmont, Colorado Police Department. Work served there for seven years, investigating crimes as a patrolman, detective and patrol sergeant. In 1989 he joined the Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office, where he soon learned that locking a criminal up inside a jail or prison does not put him out of business. As a sheriff’s detective he investigated hundreds of crimes, including eleven contract murder conspiracies which originated “inside the walls”.
While serving on the Adams County North Metro Gang Task Force and as a member of the Colorado Security Threat Intelligence Network Group (STING), Work designed a seminar on how a criminal’s mind formulates his victim selection strategy. Over a period of six years he taught that class in sheriff’s academies and colleges throughout Colorado. He saw the world of crime both inside the walls and out on the streets.
His final experiences in the criminal law field were with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, where for nearly two years he investigated felonies from the defense side of the Courtroom.
Twenty-two years of observing human nature at its worst, combined with watching some profound changes in America’s culture and political institutions, provided plenty of material for his first three books. A self-published author, he just finished writing his tenth thriller.
In case you’ve missed it, there’s a lot of anger-management therapy talk going on about calming down the heated political oratory in this deeply divided nation. The reasoning behind the calls for muting our tongues is that the vocalized anger might cause people to commit crimes of violence. 
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