Posted on 04/19/2010 7:19:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick said that President Barack Obama should speak in front of members of the militia movement to calm down rhetoric in the midst of a resurgent anti-government movement.
Gorelick was speaking Friday as part of a panel discussion marking the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing on Monday. On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. McVeigh, an anti-government extremist who was hoping to spark a revolt against the federal government, was convicted, sentenced to the death penalty and executed on June 11, 2001.
It is harder to demonize someone who is real and right in front of you, said Gorelick, now of WilmerHale. Although it was a long time ago, our experience dealing with militia groups in the aftermath of Oklahoma City was pretty powerful.
According to Gorelick, after the bombing, the Justice Department asked the FBI to approach militia movements across the country and tell them they could speak out and hold exercises in the woods but that they couldnt threaten violence against the government. President Bill Clinton also went to Michigan State and spoke to students and members of the militia movement and thanked those who had opposed the bombing.
Gorelick recommended that Obama try a similar approach.
I see these things as waves, and I believe were having another wave right now, it feels that way to me, and Im hoping theres something short of a catharsis which in the case of Oklahoma City and the abortion clinic bombings and others has been death that will stop that pendulum swing, said Gorelick.
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The panel discussion is embedded below, the entire video is available on American Progress Action. A transcript of President Bill Clintons remarks is available here (PDF).
“Earth to Planet Gorelick.....”
Why does this beotch have ANY credibility with ANYONE anymore?
McViegh was a tea party member?
Isn't she the fool who facilitated the Islamic Attack on Sept 11, 2001 ?
Gorelick should be behind bars. She is as traitorous as any of the other commie progressives, plus she bilked us taxpayers out of over $100M as part of the fanny-freddie fiasco.
Who could forget the Gorelick wall...erected to protect the Clintons and ranking democrats from chinagate.
She’s had her finger in fannie mae and pulled out a plum...and sandbagged the 9/11 oommision while representing implicated clients...
Typical Liberal Democrat political soldier.
A true believer...
She aint named GORE LICK for nothing...
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Is this the same Gorelick whose malfeasance facilitated the 9/11 attacks?
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Is this the same Gorelick whose malfeasance facilitated the 9/11 attacks?
Her ideas work so well. /sarcasm
She is a genius. N O T !
Yet somehow I am sure Obama would still demonize the Tea Party Patriots even after having seen them in front of him. He claimed he didn't notice when, by some projections, a million of us gathered in DC.
Not only that, he was a FReeper (even though FR hadn't been invented), and a Fox News viewer. /s
Was she shouted down? Oops, my bad—that only happens when
non-Marxists like Rove, Coulter and others are speaking.
I think she should have Bama talk to the militia!!! LOL..Dear God. There’s a whole bunch of criminally stupid people in this administration!!!
Boo!
I see EXILE for many of these lefty clowns. They need to be afraid, very afraid of JAIL not violence.
Yes, and never held accountable. Some of the things Obama is doing now to weaken America will probably have a similar effect.
Yeah, the power of charisma enhanced by his ingenious arguments will win over all opposition to his agenda. (/sarc)
Sorry, we don’t speak to listen to African Colonials.
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