> Saturday, May 6, 1995
 
> TOUGH TALK WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton is imploring
> Americans to fight violence in all its forms.
 
I think that all Americans ought to heed our President in this.
I think that he is absolutely right. The only question is where
this fight against violence should begin, and I think that it should
start with our glorious president leading the charge with a vow and
some laws with real teeth in them that would prevent excessive use
of violence and military firepower against relatively unarmed American
Citizens, and that such atrocities as those which occurred at
Waco, Texas shall never again be permitted to happen. Maybe if he
started there to fight violence in America, he might get some mileage
that would do him some good at the polls in 1996.
 
> At a speech at Michigan State University he denounced paramilitary
> groups and others who advocate violence against the government.
 
All he is doing here is following the lead of militias and paramilitary
groups as well as many millions of outraged citizens who have long
decried the violence of the government against the citizenry. Leave
it to Clinton to put the spin on the issues and twist them into something
that he thinks might be popular.
 
> "How dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes," he challenged.
 
Maybe you are right, Mr. Clinton. After all, no true patriot should
have voted for one of the Great American Chickens for president. But
I bet that any of those who might have done so will rush to the polls
to cure their image and cover their shame with a vote against you and
all others of your ilk who have endorsed outrageous attacks and murders
of so many American Citizens who have died defending their homes and
their property.
 
Maybe they were violating some law or treaty and therefore deserved
arrest and to be brought before a court of judgement and if found
guilty made to serve their sentences.  
But no crime they might have committed could have justified the horrible
deaths they died at the hands of our government and it's agents.
 
While there is, in my personal opinion, no reasonable justification
for what happened here in Oklahoma City, there is also no reasonable
justification for what happened in Waco, Texas either.
 
No reasonable person would arm themselves with the sole and simple
reason that they intend to attack their government nor any of it's
agents, but in view of the enormous number of citizens who have lost
their lives at the hands of government and the enormous number of
atrocities committed in it's name by it's agents, it is not unreasonable
for a person to be so fearful that he or she might arm themselves
against attacks by criminals in the night and government agents alike.
 
Bill Bauer
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