Misplaced Responsibility

       A recent letter to the op-ed page blamed the tragic Parkland shootings not just on the FBI, but specifically on the former director of the organization. Peripherally, the writer managed to slander Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as if they were somehow involved. His spurious claim that the Obama administration had knowledge of Russian election interference and did nothing, is especially asinine, since if true, bringing it to light pre-election, could only have helped the Democratic candidate. All that was missing from the blame game was a Uranium One backhand. 

       

         Reality is that we are still, and only after a significant amount of investigation with undue obfuscation by the Trump regime, uncovering the depths of Russian election interference. Not that we hold any ill will for the Russians anyway, apparently, since our President, over the vigorous objections of staff, personally congratulated Vladimir Putin for another 6-year term in a real “rigged” election.

        As to the principal allegation, that the entire FBI is to blame for the shootings: that would only be true if the local FBI field office had forwarded whatever information related to a possible threat they had received to the Director. In fact, the information never left Florida. It also, apparently, and in truth unforgivably, never left the Broward County Sheriff's Office. James Comey, however, 1200 miles away and uninformed,  was singled out for blame, which is analogous to blaming the Treasury Secretary for a bank fraud committed in the Villages. Ludicrous? Of course, it is.

        Sadly, nowhere in the letter does the writer allocate any shred of responsibility to the mentally unstable 19-year-old killer who physically committed these crimes with a high rate of fire assault rifle which he obtained from someone else who should, but is ideologically unable or unwilling to, share some of that responsibility as well.

         When in doubt, blame the evil government; that is until your Social Security check is deposited in your FDIC insured bank account, so you can afford your FDA approved medication copay with Medicare part D.