Recessionary Currents: 3. Violence in the US: Women as Targets

Camel sitting,
The National Zoo,
Washington, DC,
2000.








Recessionary pressures erupt in reactionary violence as in the Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Rally Massacre.

Many factors, especially taxation through governmentalist revenue-producing programs, like the Obamacare health care, are causing hardships for many Americans. Hardships create societal stress. Extreme societal stress sometimes is vented through violence.

Fortunately, "right-wing" conservatives perceived the increased tax hidden behind the humanitarian smokescreen of health care 'reform' proponents. Unfortunately, 'right wing' conservatives were not quick to stop the health care reform legislation before more prssure valves blew. Liberals, heavily leaning toward governmentalist force on healthcare and other issues, hopefully will wake-up before finding the IRS healthcare tax penalty and fee notice in their own mailboxes.

Rep. Giffords, a bright, vivacious, engaged young politician, became a focus for anger. A product of the 'liberal agenda', the women's rights and liberation movements, Giffords and many other women are succeeding in American politics, government, and business. Many other women are not progressing as rapidly. Most are not 'stopped' as dramatically as Rep. Giffords.

Curiously, another woman, who superficially resembles Rep. Giffords, the articulate, attractive, blonde/brunette CBS News chief foreign news correspondent Lara Logan, too has been detoured from her career progress. Logan, despite also being a wife and mother of 2 children, was viciously assaulted on location in Cairo, Egypt during the January/February, 2011 Democracy Protest.

To radical Islamists, an exteme conservative network, the news reporter represents women, unveiled and taking a full part in national and interntional events. The CBS foreign news reporter also represents foreign, particularly US, involvement and influence in a chaotically changing Middle East. Moammar Gadafi's son Seif al-Islam in a February 20, 2011 video broadcast, openly expressed this Middle Eastern fear of Islamics killing each other off before Europeans 'took over' in Libya and throughout the Middle East.

Ironically, historically, Europeans, then citizens of the Holy Roman Empire, once fought off the Moslem (now Muslim) invasion and conquest of Spain and Southern Europe from Northern Africa. Currently, the enormous influx of Muslims and Muslim violence into Europe and transoceanically into the US across the northern and southern borders from Canada and Mexico have instilled the same fear in US citizens, more so since the 911, 2001 Al-Qaida plane bombing of the the NYC, NY World Trade Center.

To many American conservatives, and polite but not actually egalitarian Ameican men, and unfortunately, women Rep. Giffords represents a fear many Americans have of being 'taken over', 'told what to do', or replaced by women. When women were almost routinely excluded from politics, and the higher eschelons of government and business, there appeared to be more jobs available for men. As the number of jobs contract, and as women fill some of those jobs, men and women no one would suspect of harboring hostility to a woman's success may have fueled the anger which somehow became focused on Rep. Giffords.


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Graphic: An Original Photographic of Camel Sitting at The National Zoo, Washington, DC, 2000, by mkrause54@yahoo.com or mkrause381@gmail.com.