{"id":7404,"date":"2011-01-11T12:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2011-01-11T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:59:55","slug":"grammar-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/01\/11\/grammar-control\/","title":{"rendered":"grammar control?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The killer’s political bent is about what you would expect: deeper on the “Nuts” end of the “Nuts” \/ “Sane”\u00c2\u00a0axis than any “right” \/ “left” axis.\u00c2\u00a0 No, he is not a “Tea Party” participant — falling outside even the “Nuts \/ Tea Party” axis of, for instance, some guy I saw on youtube in a “Pass the Bullhorn” session going off on 9\/11.\u00c2\u00a0 The effect of our politicized culture is that we see stammerings of misinformation — a fake facebook page to tie him in\u00c2\u00a0as supporting\u00c2\u00a0Obama<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or quickly and easily verified as false ties to such and such an anti-government right-wing\u00c2\u00a0Extremist group.\u00c2\u00a0 (The latter is the product of our media culture demand for immediate gratification, the former a product of political defensiveness.)<\/p>\n

It is\u00c2\u00a0possible to track a lot of his “politics”, such as they are, and they lead out from points from which the Tea Party (such as it is) have drawn.\u00c2\u00a0 The influences are re-assembled in a mad pastiche from out of the nation’s\u00c2\u00a0broader protest (sure, the tone set by it as well) for a man not in control of his life and painfully aware of that.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, it is political by definition — he shot a politician — and the concerns expressed to the politician were reflections of his existential crisis:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u009dHe told me that she opened up the floor for questions and he asked a question. The question was, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat is government if words have no meaning?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Giffords\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 answer, whatever it was, didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t satisfy Loughner. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCan you believe it, they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t answer my question,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and I told him, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDude, no one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to answer that,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tierney recalls.<\/a><\/p>\n

From here is the\u00c2\u00a0one that puzzles me.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of his pastiche of politics are easily recognized — monetary theories spouted by Congressman Ron Paul (who is a sane man, by the way),\u00c2\u00a0conspiracy theories of the Fall of the Nation’s constitutional bearings\u00c2\u00a0coming from opponents of the 14th Amendment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But from “What is government if words have no meaning”, we drip down into:<\/p>\n

You don’t allow the government to control grmmar structure.<\/em><\/p>\n

Where did this one come from?
\nWell, David Wayne Miller will now enjoy his 15 minutes of fame<\/a>.
\n… Even if the young man who attempted to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords probably added his own twist<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(and I don’t think his proposed educational system would hold up all that well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The killer’s political bent is about what you would expect: deeper on the “Nuts” end of the “Nuts” \/ “Sane”\u00c2\u00a0axis than any “right” \/ “left” axis.\u00c2\u00a0 No, he is not a “Tea Party” participant — falling outside even the “Nuts \/ Tea Party” axis of, for instance, some guy I saw on youtube in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}