Except for the fact I hadn't counted on the dismaying ingenuity of the American political system. Sorry, Gov. Patrick, but it is pathetically stupid to talk about the murderous assault using anodyne 9/10 Therapyspeak. "Tragedy" and "incidents" do not begin to cut it.
"A failure of human understanding...a failure of human beings
to understand each other, to learn to love each other."
If that's the best his third-tier speechwriters can do, then perhaps the Governor should consider having a mime deliver next year's speech.
Look: by all accounts, Deval Patrick was a dedicated and capable assistant attorney general back in the mid-90s. Would that the dogged advocate had shown up here. But the other legal tendency, which cultivates blurred and passive lawyer language, is embarrassing in this setting.
Those who planned and executed the slaughter six years ago understood perfectly what they were doing. And they gloried in it. And, oh, would they just love to do it again. They have no intention of learning a damn thing from us--except to the extent it helps to kill ever-larger numbers.
The word you're looking for, Governor, is "evil."
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Be reasonably civil. Ire alloyed with reason is fine. But slagging the host gets you the banhammer.