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Hey, This whole thread gives me an idea for a TC where Duke is an ATF
afent kicking some serious redneck militia ass. Whadda ya think?
Chardman

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:14:29 -0800, "Doc Holiday" <D...@OKcorral.com>
wrote:

>On Tuesday, March 7th, George W. Bush
>effectively became the Republican
>nominee. On the 6th of March he was in
>Los Angeles, and visited the Simon
>Wiesenthal Center's "Museum of
>Tolerance". He was lead around the
>Museum by it's Dean and Founder, Rabbi
>Marvin Hier, who when asked in Late
>August 1992 on a Los Angeles radio
>station what he thought of the events at
>Ruby Ridge Idaho-which had occurred just
>days earlier-and specifically the
>assassination of Vicky Weaver while
>cradling her ten month old infant daughter,
>replied: "Well, people who have hateful
>thoughts and try to spread their hateful
>ideas to others have to be dealt with in a
>forceful manor." Vicki Weaver, as Rabbi
>Marvin Heir knew at the time, was shot in
>the face by an FBI "sharp-shooter". Her
>other two daughters, small children who
>today have a clear memory of what
>happened, screamed as they saw their
>mother's head explode.
>
>George W. Bush listened intently as Rabbi
>Marvin Hier talked of "The Holocaust" and
>showed Bush a picture of Joerg Haider on a
>wall captioned "Today's Demagogues".
>George W. Bush was not silent throughout his
>visit though, in fact he gave a speech in which
>he said: " Racism finds new targets and opens
>old wounds. Hate groups recruit on the
>Internet and warp the souls of children."
>Contrast this with what Rabbi Marvin Hier
>said in the immediate aftermath of Ruby
>Ridge. In case anyone had any doubt what
>Bush meant he continued: "That is my
>commitment to the people of this
>country.and those who practice intimidation
>and violence will have a determined enemy in
>the president of the United States". Those with
>fuzzy memories and who listen to Rush
>Limbaugh may have come to believe that
>Janet Reno had something to do with Ruby
>Ridge, as Rush has repeated this many times
>over the years. However, she was president
>Clinton's third choice for Attorney General
>and was not sworn in until a year after Ruby
>Ridge. Bill Clinton was elected more than two
>months after Ruby Ridge as Rush Limbaugh
>surely knows. When Ruby Ridge occurred
>George Herbert Walker Bush was president of
>the United States. So when George W. Bush
>says that White people "will have a
>determined enemy in the president of the
>United States", there is good reason to believe
>him. At the end of the news piece about this
>visit to the "Museum of Tolerance" printed
>below, you will notice that George W. Bush's
>father was also one of the museum's first, and
>certainly most prominent visitors when he and
>wife Barbara stopped by 12 years ago. George
>W. Bush signed the guest book on the same
>page as his Father and Mother.
>--
>Monday March 6 8:52 PM ET
>
>Bush Preaches Tolerance at Simon Wiesenthal Center
>
>By Patricia Wilson
>
>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - George W. Bush (news - web sites), whose
>presidential campaign has been haunted by his visit to a
>college espousing anti-Catholic views, stood on stage at the
>Simon Wiesenthal Center on Monday and condemned all forms of
>religious bigotry.
>
>After a tour of the museum with its chilling tableaux of Nazi-era
>Germany and replicas of the tunnels leading to Auschwitz's gas
>chambers, the Texas governor delivered a somber speech, declaring
>that ``intolerance and hatred have no place in the policies of
>government or the souls of citizens.''
>
>Bush's appearance last month at Bob Jones University in
>South Carolina, a fundamentalist Christian college whose
>leaders have called the pope the anti-Christ, has dogged his
>campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
>
>Rival Arizona Sen. John McCain (news - web sites) denounced the
>visit and linked Bush to the ``intolerance'' of extremist
>elements in the Republican Party.
>
>Bush Speaks Of Tolerance And Faith
>
>Bush, who wrote to Cardinal John O'Connor of New York saying he
>regretted not speaking out against the school's policies during
>his appearance there, spoke openly about tolerance and faith.
>
>``We don't believe in tolerance in spite of our faith,'' Bush
>said. ``We believe in tolerance because of our faith. And it
>leads us to condemn all forms of religious bigotry.''
>
>Bush pledged to give that conviction voice and force.
>
>``That is my commitment to the people of this country ... and
>those who practice intimidation and violence will have a
>determined enemy in the president of the United States.''
>
>He spoke of ``the contest of light an shadow'' in the world and
>said racism could not be relegated to the past.
>
>``Racism finds new targets and reopens old wounds. Hate groups
>recruit on the Internet and warp the souls of children,'' he
>said.
>
>Bush was escorted around the museum by Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean
>and founder of the center. They stopped in front of a wall with
>photographs and inscriptions illustrating the power of words
>for good and evil.
>
>Among the pictures were the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, Iraqi
>President Saddam Hussein, former British Prime Minister Winston
>Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Nelson Mandela and Franklin Roosevelt.
>
>Nearby, among a display of ``Today's Demagogues'' was a
>photograph of Joerg Haider, the former leader of the far right
>Austrian Freedom Party whose extremist views alarmed European
>and U.S. officials.
>
>Bush listened intently while Rabbi Hier explained how Haider
>had visited the Simon Wiesenthal Center and requested his
>picture be taken down.
>
>``He came here, walked in and demanded it be removed,'' Hier
>told Bush. ``We thought he was going to pull his name off
>the wall.''
>
>After the tour, Bush and his wife Laura signed the visitors'
>book on the same page as his father former President George
>Bush and his wife Barbara, who visited the site 12 years ago
>and were shown a scale model of the then-planned museum.
>
>``God bless this world,'' the Texan wrote, signing his name
>and adding the date, March 6, 2000.
>
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