Suggest An End to Violence

On her website, Sarah Palin put gun targets on the names of 20 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress.  After the election, she stated that of the twenty, only Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall were left.  On Saturday, January 8, 2011.  Rep. Giffords was among more than a dozen people shot.  The victims included U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Roll,  Giffords' Director of Community Outreach, Gabe Zimmerman,  two other members of her staff, and a 9-year-old girl.  

Rep. Gabrille Giffords

Giffords, who was the apparent target of the terrorist massacre, underwent surgery and is currently in a medically induced coma.  Perhaps the gunman was exercising the freedom of Arizona's lenient gun laws.  Perhaps he was caught up in Arizona's racist immigration law invironment.  Perhaps he was encouraged by his alleged affiliation with the anti-Semitic, anti-immigration, white supremacist hate group American Renaissance (Giffords is Jewish).  We only know two things for sure: On her website, Sarah Palin put a gun target on U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords; and then someone shot Rep. Giffords.  Palin issued condolences about the event and I want to believe that even Sarah Palin did not intend for her targets to murdered.  But even if the gunman knew nothing about Palin's targets, the suggestion was out there.  It was energy in the wind.  It was a violent thought written; to be read, absorbed and disseminated into an already agitated environment...  

Judge John Roll

Our thoughts have power.  Our words have power.  Our suggestions have power.  That power can be used for peace, or for war.  President Obama called for a moment of silence for the victims of the Arizona terrorist (my word) attack.  I call for a moment of silence to pray for / meditate on /  envision the suggestion of peace.  I call for a moment of sound to put thoughts into words of peace.  I call for a moment of action to engage everyone you touch to be mindful of the power of they possess, and to encourage them to use that power to promote peace. 

Credo Action has a petition asking Sarah Palin to renounce violence.  To sign that petition Click Here!