The blame game

It starts with an attempted murder by an unbalanced Arizonan but quickly escalates into a cause célèbre where, depending on your political orientation, it was either a senseless, unprovoked assault on a partisan politician or the act of a politically motivated activist.

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Actually it makes no difference what the shooter’s political leanings were –whatever they were they were enough to motivate him to try to kill a member of Congress whose political views simply seem to have been not a real issue with him. Regardless of her political orientation Rep. Gabby Griffords is a member of a government he both fears and despises and was therefore a suitable target for his rage. That’s the fact of the matter but it seems to have escaped the nation’s Left wing entirely. They are bent on pinning the blame for any politically shameful and senseless act on the nation’s conservative majority no matter what an examination of the facts of the matter reveal. I was amused by the media’s original coverage of the death of Judge John Roll, which more or less ignored what was a vitally important factor in his death. It took a couple of days for the pagan media to report that he arrived on the scene on his way home from attending daily Mass and planned to have a brief conversation with Rep. Giffords concerning illegal immigration. To the nation’s Catholics that was a vitally important and joyful fact – prior to his sudden death Judge Roll had just received the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist , and in the unlikely event that he committed some grievous sin on his way home from Mass and in the few minutes before his death, he experienced what we Catholics call and hope for, the grace of a happy death. I don’t know enough about the Judge, or anyone else for that matter, to have an informed guess about his immediate experience upon meeting his Savior but given what I do know about him it had to have been a happy encounter between our Lord and a faithful servant. He would appear to have been a saintly man, and one hopes he is now enjoying sainthood – the state of being in paradise where all those in the presence of God are saints. That sort of thing is, of course simply a matter of pure superstition to the media elite - to them people who not only have a deep religious faith but practice it are no doubt laboring under a false conviction no properly educated person would accept. They are to be ridiculed – a chore many in the mainstream media are happy to perform. One could not be blamed for hoping that in the hereafter these scoffers of all things religious might encounter a couple of such genuine intellects St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Augustine of Hippo. It is said that one should pray for one’s enemies, not simply because by so doing you heap the proverbial coals of fire upon their heads but because it is one’s Christian duty to love one’s neighbor, even if he happens to be a militant agnostic or an atheist, or even – shudder - a columnist for the New York Times. Happily it would now appear that Rep. Giffords is on the road to recovery. Every day brings new reports of her slow but steady progress and it is now expected that sometime in the not too distant future she will be back on the floor of the House of Representatives. In the meantime, you might take a minute or two every day to say a prayer for her complete recovery.