Wade Michael Page, Nazism and Personal Outrage
If I have any remorse over the death of Wade Michael Page it
is that he can not be used as a lab rat to find out how a human being turns
himself into a foul beast. Page was
rightfully shot to death on the site of his attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin . As with all pusillanimous shooters of
innocents, I think their only social value is to be studied to find out what
screwed them up past the point of humanity.
We have
photos and articles showing Page trying to act the big shot in front of
disgusting images of White Power and Nazi flags. Page displayed the usual pattern of the
perpetually ineffectual loser who is attracted to any movement that can layer
on the manhood which nature seems to have left out. He was a washout in the Army, had a criminal
record that includes DUI’s and petty mischief.
He didn’t have a steady job, other than the marginal existence of a rock
band. Even his girl friend left him for
another member of the same band.
Currently he didn’t have a woman in his life. Loser!
Such people
frequently turn to neo-Nazism or other gangs because they tell them what they
want to hear—that they are not responsible for their life of serial
failure. It is always someone else’s
fault. They actually are superior to
successful people, in fact, in their twilight world of convoluted thinking, the
success of others is the reason they have failed. Reason and logic are not their intellectual
long suites. Evidently, neither is
history.
There are
few things that irritate me more than people who treat words and concepts
lightly. They are invariably people who
don’t read, and certainly didn’t pay attention in history class (oh, wait, we
don’t teach history any more do we!?!), and there in lies part of the
problem. These fools bandy around the
term, “Nazi” and, “Hitler” as if one needs only tangential similarity to the
real thing to merit comparison. These
are similar to the people who use the words, “rape” and, “lynching” for
dramatic impact when they clearly do not hold the enormity of either word in
due regard. Ignorance produces sweeping
statements to cover up little substance.
Actual rape, lynching, Nazism and the real Adolf Hitler are all
monstrous. Most of the convenient,
politically inspired comparisons are pathetically weak attempts to shore up
poor arguments. I wonder if Wade Michael
Page realizes that the real Hitler and his Nazi thugs would have weeded him out
through sterilization as a weak link in their march toward a, “master”
race. Maybe, deep down, he did know
that, which produced the self-loathing that caused him to kill innocent people.
It is the
same poorly thought out heresy that brought me a moment of shame and outrage
yesterday. I am a Republican. I disagree with 90% of what President Obama
thinks, says and does. But he is my
President. I am bound by the
Constitution that protects me and my love for this land to respect his office. There are lines that one simply does not
cross without shaming us all.
At the post office in Sequim , Washington
my husband and I saw a group of people campaigning against President
Obama. They were displaying a poster on
which was a photo of the President, doctored with a mustache to look like
Hitler. Shame on them! I can not defend a single thing these or any
people say, when they start with a reference so ugly and unwarranted.
Guard
against excess, and keep the faith.
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