My Name is Betsy. I'm a Killer
By Betsy M. Galliher
AmericanThinker.com
My name is Betsy. I'm a
wife and proud soccer mom, a writer, and small
business owner. I'm also a killer.
On the morning of
January 8th, 2011, I intentionally
entered a gathering held by Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords, and shot her at near point
blank range. I injured 14 others, killing six:
among them a beautiful, curious, doe-eyed,
nine-year-old girl. I didn't actually pull the
trigger, but I'm as guilty as the psychopath who
did.
Here are just a few of the
charges against me:
I am a conservative.
On occasion, I listen to Beck,
Limbaugh, and Fox News.
I've been known to pick up a book
or two by conservative authors; Thomas Sowell,
Andrew McCarthy, or the Founding Fathers, for
example!
I believe the federal government
is too large, far too intrusive, and dangerously
powerful.
I believe in personal
responsibility, and the amazing generosity of
Americans to aid those in need, rather than
permanent entitlements.
I believe the private, not public
sector, is the backbone of our economy.
I believe our progressive tax
system is punitive. We are over-taxed,
over-regulated, and over-lectured.
I believe in the power of the
free market to correct itself, without
government (taxpayer) intervention.
I believe the Constitution is
intended to limit government, and empower the
individual.
I believe in holding our elected
official's feet to the fire, be they Republican
or Democrat (incendiary pun intended).
I believe our sovereignty is at
risk via unsecured borders, out of control
spending and our crippling deficit, reckless
abuses of the Constitution, and the moral decay
of Washington.
In short, I'm a
madman. Guilty as charged, and armed with the
belief in my 1st Amendment right to
peaceably question those we elect to serve.
The only person
who actually pulled the trigger on that
terrible, fateful day was Jared Loughner, by
every account, a deeply troubled young man. But
the real guilty walk among us: senior citizens
in red, white, and blue, armed with signs,
"Taxed Enough Already," flag-wavers clinging to
guns and religion, doctors, the wealthy,
business owners, talk radio, and any citizen
that dare exercise his or her right to free
speech, particularly a conservative.
We're called
greedy, stupid, and racist. We're ridiculed
with snide "slurpee" innuendos, and called lewd
and malicious names, such as "teabaggers."
Ordinary citizens maligned by their own
government while the pious, liberal elite get a
free pass on reason and truth; while Islamists
invoke their religious cloak; while the
ideologue professes his moral superiority; while
the media uses the power of spin; and leftists,
including Robert Gibbs and Barack Obama, employ
their bully pulpit.
We defend conservatism by our
very way of life: as self-reliant, tax-paying,
moral citizens, and faithful defenders of
limited government and the power of the
individual. We are violent inciters only in so
much as we threaten the current Leftist,
agenda-driven stronghold on government. So
alarming is our threat, the real inciters wasted
no time in politicizing the tragic deaths of six
innocent citizens, and one revered
Congresswoman, still fighting for her life. And
they will waste no time in shamelessly
exploiting a ‘crisis' at the hand of a lone
psychopath to further enact gun control, and
squelch freedom of speech under cries of
‘civility.'
Does the Left
really believe the "rhetoric" of Palin, Beck,
Limbaugh, and Fox is incendiary? Do they fail
to understand the language of conservative
"talk" is the echo of ordinary citizens calling
for limited government, and individual
freedoms? Or, do they silence us because we
know our current leaders don't actually believe
in their own limited power? Truth be told,
even Jared Loughner undermines their agenda.
And they know it. They know their
"transformation" of America is failing, and
that people like me are not afraid to say so.
My name is Betsy, and I'm a
killer. They are determined to stop me before I
kill again.