Senseless?
Caroline Kennedy produces a beautiful specimen of Newthink:

Kennedy cited Giffords’ strength to carry on a difficult fight.

“Our family is still suffering from the heartbreak caused by gun violence,” Kennedy said. “No one should have to lose a husband, a wife, a father, a child, to senseless murder.

“But as our nominee has shown, out of that pain and tragedy, we must find the strength to carry on, to give meaning to our lives, and to build a more just and peaceful world.”

Horrible conflation.

Evil and senseless are TWO DIFFERENT WORDS. Evil and senseless DO NOT MEAN THE SAME THING.

JFK's murder was evil but NOT senseless. He was killed by a Soviet agent because he dared to oppose the USSR over Cuba.

Bobby Kennedy's murder was evil but NOT senseless. He was killed by the first Jihadi of modern times.

Both of those murders were designed to accomplish a rational purpose. And it appears that they did accomplish their purpose. Teddy Kennedy went on to support every Soviet and Communist and Jihadi cause, showing that he had learned from the two perfectly rational killings.

The shooting of Giffords was evil AND senseless. Jared Loughner was purely crazy, absolutely schizophrenic, totally removed from reality. His delusional "purpose" may have been romantic: Giffords had rejected his imagined love.

The most senseless aspect of this shooting is that a RATIONAL COUNTRY would have kept a perfectly defined schizy like Loughner in an insane asylum. Unfortunately, America has not been rational for several decades. Most of our total and universal irrationality was directly and personally crafted by someone named Teddy Kennedy. Specifically, the evil Soviet-inspired movement to throw schizy patients out of safe places and put them on the streets was one of Teddy Kennedy's pet projects.

Hmmmmmmmmm. Kennedy. Name sounds familiar somehow; where have I heard it recently? Oh yes! Just a few sentences back, where someone named Caroline Kennedy was praising Gabby Giffords for recovering from a bullet that was caused by Teddy Kennedy's evil work! Hmmmmm. Wonder if this Caroline is related to Teddy? Nah, couldn't be. Nobody could say such grotesquely ironic things with a straight face. Must be some other Kennedy.
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