{"id":13232,"date":"2010-04-20T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13232"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:31:08","slug":"james-bovard-a-lethal-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13232","title":{"rendered":"James Bovard: A Lethal Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By JAMES BOVARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, on the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the federal office building in Oklahoma City, former President Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the <em>New York Times<\/em> headlined: \u201cViolence is Unacceptable in a Democracy.\u201d   The article settles any doubts about whether Clinton was one of the most talented demagogues of modern times.<\/p>\n<p>Casting a net of collective guilt over much of the 48 contiguous states, Clinton announced that the 1995 bombing was the fault of people who believed \u201cthat the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them.\u201d  People who distrusted government helped echo ideas which somehow  persuaded \u201cdeeply alienated and disconnected Americans\u201d to carry out the attack. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/bovard04202010.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JAMES BOVARD Yesterday, on the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the federal office building in Oklahoma City, former President Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times headlined: \u201cViolence is Unacceptable in a Democracy.\u201d The article &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13234,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions\/13234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}