Clinton Calls American People “Deeply, Deeply Troubled”

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clintonFormer President Bill Clinton warned of a slippery slope from angry anti-government rhetoric to violence like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, saying “the words we use really do matter.”

The two-term Democratic president insisted he wasn’t trying to restrict free speech, but in remarks Friday he said incendiary language can be taken the wrong way by some Americans. He drew parallels to words demonizing the government before Oklahoma City.

On April 19, 1995, an anti-government conspiracy led by Army veteran Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people.

“What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold – but that the words we use really do matter, because there’s this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike,” he said.

“One of the things that the conservatives have always brought to the table in America is a reminder that no law can replace personal responsibility. And the more power you have and the more influence you have, the more responsibility you have.”

Clinton made the remarks at events sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund on the upcoming anniversary of the bombing.

He mentioned the rancorous fight over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Passage of the law elicited threats against some lawmakers.

“I’m glad they’re fighting over health care and everything else. Let them have at it. But I think that all you have to do is read the paper every day to see how many people there are who are deeply, deeply troubled,” he said.

He also alluded to the anti-government tea party movement, which held protests in several states Thursday. At the Washington rally, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota railed against “gangster government.”

Clinton argued that the Boston Tea Party was in response to taxation without representation. The current protesters, he said, are challenging taxation by elected officials, and the demonstrators have the power to vote them out of office.

“By all means keep fighting, by all means, keep arguing,” he said. “But remember, words have consequences as much as actions do, and what we advocate, commensurate with our position and responsibility, we have to take responsibility for. We owe that to Oklahoma City.”

{My Way/Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}


6 COMMENTS

  1. Yes Mr. Clinton we are deeply troubled by what you and your friends have done to our country. And there are plenty of violent left wing nuts out there too.

  2. Bill! Please get out of our face & take your dumb wife of yours with you! Yes you are right. Rush Limbaugh is responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing! Such lunacey! Get out! You had your chance. Thank goodness for term limits. Fade away. Good buy.

  3. Mr Bill IN THIS COUNTRY WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO THE ARABS WITH YOUR HILLARY AND STAY THERE BY THE WAY TAKE A LONG THE OBAMS AND LET US HAVE OUR COUNTRY BACK

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