Posted on 04/16/2010 2:08:25 PM PDT by onyx
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that parallels exist between the mentality that inspired the 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building and today's anti-government attitudes.
In an interview with The New York Times, Clinton specifically targeted remarks made by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) at a Tea Party rally in Washington Thursday as problematic:
"There can be real consequences when what you say animates people who do things you would never do,” Mr. Clinton said in an interview, saying that Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing, and those who assisted him, “were profoundly alienated, disconnected people who bought into this militant antigovernment line.”
The former president said the potential for stirring a violent response might be even greater now with the reach of the Internet and other common ways of communication that did not exist on April 19, 1995, when the building was struck.
"Because of the Internet, there is this vast echo chamber and our advocacy reaches into corners that never would have been possible before,” said Mr. Clinton, who said political messages are now able to reach those who are both “serious and seriously disturbed.”
He will be delivering the keynote address Friday at an event about the Oklahoma City attack being sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Democratic Leadership Council.
Mr. Clinton pointed to remarks like those made Thursday by Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican, who when speaking at a Tea Party rally in Washington characterized the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “the gangster government.”
“They are not gangsters,” Mr. Clinton said. “They were elected. They are not doing anything they were not elected to do.”
Tea Partiers held hundreds of rallies across the country on Thursday, which was Tax Day.
Clinton made his comments before appearing at a symposium about the 1995 bombing, which occurred during his first term in the White House.
Some Democrats, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, have warned that right-wing "extremists" could engage in acts of violence as a result of strong anti-government attitudes.
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Slick is just a lying bag of scum - he knows the truth of who was behind the OKC bombing. He is the one who ordered all FBI personnel to ignore evidence linking Middle Eastern men to the bombing AND told them to destroy the memo ordering him to do so! Thankfully, one of the agents did not destroy his memo, instead giving it over to an investigative reporter, one Jayna Davis.
Jayna Davis wrote the facts around the OKC bombing in a book called ‘The Third Terrorist’.
The driver of the Ryder truck loaded with explosives was driven by an Iraqi Republican Guard Officer, Husseini al Hussein. McVeigh was a passenger and a ‘lily white’ - a cover for the Arab’s terror activities.
Clinton took the bait, as Saddam Hussein knew he would, and Slick has used that line about right-wing crazies ever since.
The truth should be told whenever this subject come up.
They just can’t make up their minds how to attack us because nothing works.
They are back to square one...equating us with terrorists like Napolitano tried to do in the beginning. We have gone from being called terrorists to fringe to racists to rednecks to rich people...now we are back to terrorists....LOL!
Clinton just can’t help himself. He so wants to be relevant....lol.
Bubba should listen to his wife’s screech about criticizing this government.
“There can be real consequences when what you say animates people who do things you would never do,” Mr. Clinton said in an interview...
Words from a guy who was/is surrounded by a strange trend of “de-animating” people around him.
And thene there is the whole issue of “doing things you would never do..”.
One has to laugh.
You’re right. The exact same cloth. She wrote her thesis on Saul Alinsky.
Thanks to the original freeper but also
ETL
thanks to you.
The left so wants to paint us as extremist but there are too many of us. Most of America, except for the POls in DC and MSM, either knows one of us OR is one of us.
BTW ETL
how can I save these links
He sure is hung-up on Michele Bachmann. He zeroed in on her.
Because she is unobtainium to his needs and wants......
Unfortunately the liberals/progressives/communists/democrats need a civil uprising....in order to further their agenda....
It wouldn’t be very surprising to see a Reich-stag Fire soon, and then the right will be blamed and persecuted.
The devil is a liberal/Marxist and its most certainly obvious.
Bill, man man... thanks so much for reminding me what a slimer beast you are. I’d almost forgotten. We see you hiding there behind that charity work. Met any good interns lately?
Rot in hell Clinton ! You punk POS polidiot trash !
Highlight them, right click, and select "View Selection Source" (or something similar to it, depending on your setup). Then copy and paste it somewhere where html is used (like here on FR).
And do any of these clowns realize that none of this is actually working? No one is remotely buying that people at tea Parties are remotely like the OKC Bomber. We are more like The rescue workers that would be the first into the ruins.
Ah, yes, Bubba’s high water mark when he was able to blame talk radio for OKC. If it worked once, why not again ...
I remember the third guy’s drawing and often wondered what ever happened to him. Why would Saddam do that though? Personal gratification? Did he ever claim responsibility?
Re: “Then copy and paste it somewhere where html is used (like here on FR).”
Correction: copy the highlighted “View Selection Source” info, save it somewhere, then later paste it somewhere where html is used.
The Impeached One is an ass clown.
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