The United States as Jared Loughner: How the State Sanctifies Murder
Arthur Silber was going to write a new essay, but you just need to change the referents in his nearly-fouryear-old essay The United States as Cho Seung-Hui: How the State Sanctifies Murder, and everything he said then applies now.
I changed the referents in the following quote:
[Loughner] was a detestable, sickening amateur. The governing class of the United States, together with its military of unprecedented strength, are professional killers. Even now, as all our politicians make calculations for the [2012] elections their overriding priority, there is no sense of urgency whatsoever about ending this ongoing, monstrous crime.
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