Some People See Terror Where Others See Panic: Where's the Gray Area?

We here at the Venango Republic stand by our word when we say that our goal is to tick everyone off. Due to a series of articles that consistently point out the hypocrisies of one side, we feel that it is time we point out the hypocrisies of another side of an issue. This time, we go after the conservatives who wildly exaggerate the motives of a woman who just wanted to drive off, thinking that the agent would jump out of the way.

Granted, we acknowledge that the agent did not wake up that morning thinking to himself, “I want to shoot a woman in the face.” But when the Vice President comes before the press and says this is "an act of terror," we must say to ourselves, really? You’re going to compare some woman pulling her car forward and almost hitting an agent to an airline jet taking down the Twin Towers? That’s a bit of a stretch.

We’re not here to please everybody. We’re here to make you all angry. And now, it is time for us to point out the hypocrisies of the far right.

We already talked about how the media pretends they care that Renee is dead. They really just think it’s convenient that she died at the hands of an ICE agent. As for the conservatives pretending that she meant to run him over, you also are not looking at the gray area.

Here’s a scenario. A woman says, “I don’t want to deal with this,” and pulls her car forward, thinking any sensible person will jump out of the way. The officer can’t see the tires turning all the way to the right and thinks she’s trying to run him over. He then shoots her.

A simple misunderstanding results in the death of a woman who was caught in the middle of a heated exchange.

Nobody woke up that morning thinking, “I want to kill somebody.” They were just extremely heated. And in the heat of the moment, something unfortunate happened that neither individual wanted to be caught up in. That simple.

Calling her a terrorist is about as dumb as it can get. Could you imagine if the news reports came out the next day with this absurdity? "A woman committed an act of terror when her car hit a telephone pole and killed nobody. It was a suicide mission because she hoped to get shot in the face. That equates to some guys intentionally wrecking a plane into a building."

Calling it an act of terror is like saying that one dead ICE agent brings the country to our knees. Yes, it would have been sad if he died, just as sad as it is that she died.

Can both parties acknowledge that there is a gray area we’re all too proud to acknowledge because we’re so focused on a political agenda? One side wants to call ICE evil. The other side wants to call the left evil. Meanwhile, I would say that you’re both evil because you’re using the death of an innocent person to accuse each other rather than actually grieving.

Stop pretending you care that the person is dead, and acknowledge that you’re just excited to make a political statement. That goes for both Republicans and Democrats. And I know for a fact that nobody really cares she’s dead because several other people died this week while being shot by other individuals, and they’re not being talked about because they weren't political.