Government Grammar

Lemme just put a proposition to yinz. This Loughner fellow, he thought that the federal government was trying to control his mind through the deep structures of grammar and syntax, through meddling with his conscious dream-states, and so he got himself a gun and shot a member of the federal government, plus, you know, some collateral civilians. I say to you that he is not a murderer. He is merely a victim of faulty intelligence. He cannot be held morally responsible. No one could have known at the time! I think the best result will be that perhaps, after a period of instability and uncertainty, the state of Arizona will once achieve some reasonable level of self-government, you know, for the region. It will generally be able to secure its borders, hold reasonably free and fair elections. I think if we see that outcome within the next six months to six thousand years, then it will be impossible to condemn fully the initial action, erroneous though it may have been.