Reposting this upon request, with updates
Any reconciliation process must include TRUTH-TELLING.
The indefensible, infamous crosshairs map is referred to as a 'hit-list' because that's what it deserves to be called : a hit-list.
Last Saturday Sarah Palin did not put a bullet in Gabrielle Giffords' head. That terrible deed was done by someone else.
But Sarah Palin put Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other Federal officials in the crosshairs of a gunsight. She exclaimed, 'Reload!' with the unveiling of her hit-list. And she signed her name to it - literally.
Everyone can understand this truth :
If you or I posted a hit-list of names in gunsight cross hairs, declared 'Re-load!' and then at least 11 of the 20 names on our list received serious death threats, had offices vandalized or shot at, and one of the 'targets' ended up with a bullet in her head, and all the 'targets' on our list happened to be Federal officials . . .
. . . well, you can be certain that regardless of our real intentions, you or I would still be sitting in a hard chair in a small windowless room, being asked a whole lot of questions by the F B I and other law enforcement agencies.
Let's re-review Sarah's list :
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