RSDavis
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Blowback for Me, but Not for Thee
by RS Davis
The Freedom Files
Hello Freedomphiles! You may have heard by now that on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Bill Clinton, who was president at the time of this nation's biggest incidence of domestic terrorism, penned an op-ed in The New York Times, part memoir and part examination of what he believes to be home-grown extremism on the rise today:
Finally, we should never forget what drove the bombers, and how they justified their actions to themselves. They took to the ultimate extreme an idea advocated in the months and years before the bombing by an increasingly vocal minority: the belief that the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them. On that April 19, the second anniversary of the assault of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, deeply alienated and disconnected Americans decided murder was a blow for liberty...
...Fifteen years ago, the line was crossed in Oklahoma City. In the current climate, with so many threats against the president, members of Congress and other public servants, we owe it to the victims of Oklahoma City, and those who survived and responded so bravely, not to cross it again.
The problem with this line of thinking is that there are plenty of reasonable people - myself included - who think that "the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them." That's a line of thinking that would be very familiar to the founders of this country....
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by RS Davis
The Freedom Files
Hello Freedomphiles! You may have heard by now that on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Bill Clinton, who was president at the time of this nation's biggest incidence of domestic terrorism, penned an op-ed in The New York Times, part memoir and part examination of what he believes to be home-grown extremism on the rise today:
Finally, we should never forget what drove the bombers, and how they justified their actions to themselves. They took to the ultimate extreme an idea advocated in the months and years before the bombing by an increasingly vocal minority: the belief that the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them. On that April 19, the second anniversary of the assault of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, deeply alienated and disconnected Americans decided murder was a blow for liberty...
...Fifteen years ago, the line was crossed in Oklahoma City. In the current climate, with so many threats against the president, members of Congress and other public servants, we owe it to the victims of Oklahoma City, and those who survived and responded so bravely, not to cross it again.
The problem with this line of thinking is that there are plenty of reasonable people - myself included - who think that "the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them." That's a line of thinking that would be very familiar to the founders of this country....
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