April 19, 2010,we remembered the tragedy that shook off our hearts, it was the 15th anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that resulted to deaths with 149 men and women,most of them are federal workers, and 19 innocent children. The former President Bill Clinton used the occasion to bash his critics.
"What We Learned in Oklahoma City" Clinton placed the blame on Americans who have been advocated as a smaller government. The terrorists, bomber Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices, who targeted the Murrah Federal Building, wrote, "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."
Clinton said that criticism is just part of the lifeblood of democracy, we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician and demonizing the government that guarantees our freedom and public servants who enforce our laws."
Clinton continued, "We must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged."
So if anyone were to cast blame for the Fort Hood shootings that left deaths, or any other terrorisms within American military bases, then that movement would be followed by outrageous comments. It would be absurd to suggest that to contradict the war is by promoting violence against U.S. troops.
Then, Clinton learn from Oklahoma City that by his decisions, he can worsen such events and in so doing, endear himself to the subject of his party struck with itself.
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