America's worst sheriff
Image via WikipediaIt's bad enough that a fine congresswoman is shot down by a crazed assassin. But do those whose job it is to prevent such awful things have to insert their own base politics into the tragedy?Loughner is not the only one in Tuscon suffering from delusions. It appears that Dupnik did not attend the Joe Friday school of law enforcement where those responsible for investigating a crime focus only on the facts. His perverse rants against those he disagrees with politically suggest a guy who does not want to be distracted by the facts in a case. His incompetence has been exposed by this case and hopefully voters will remove him at the first opportunity.
As a key law enforcement figure in the assassination attempt against Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat, might be expected to show some caution in commenting on the violent swirl of bitter, unsubstantiated and outright false accusations made by Democrats on the left against the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and conservative bloggers.
Blaming the Tea Party or Sarah Palin — or anyone on the right — misses the mark. As has been noted too many times to mention, accused shooter Jared Loughner seems to be a schizophrenic, a paranoid — a man who suffers severe delusions and violent fantasies.
Though described by former friends as a "left-wing pothead," his rantings were in fact insane. Yes, he was a 9/11 Truther and had a keen interest in both Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and Marx's "Communist Manifesto," but he had no known ties to any political group.
Even so, Dupnik couldn't resist targeting Republicans and the Tea Party as somehow responsible for Loughner's murderous actions.
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There is also the issue of whether he and his department ignored the phoned death threats that the accused is alleged to have made before he went on his massacre. That is something that the media will have to investigate, since it is unlikely that his own department will voluntarily do so at this point. If it is true, it is something that Dupnik should have told the media early on, but that would have distracted from his narrative of blaming those who had nothing to do with the crimes in question.
BTW, the accused was a registered Independent who did not vote in 2010 according to some reports.
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