Who's Afraid? I'm Not Afraid
by James Glaser
April 21, 2010

The last couple of weeks, the Democrat Party has been trying to demonize the Tea Party and link that Tea Party to the Republican Party. I believe they are doing this because they think they will be able to get their base back, and maybe some of the independents who have lost faith in President Osama's "Yes We Can" movement.

The Democrats sat on their hands and watched as George Bush and Dick Cheney made much of America fearful of two of the most pitiful nations on earth, Iraq and Afghanistan. Not only did the American people fall for this fear and dread line about two tiny Muslim countries, but the Democrats got caught up in it, too. The Democrats gave George Bush the power to wage war any place on earth he wanted, and all but one Democrat voted for the Patriot Act.

They watched in amazement as the American people fell into line behind George Bush who promised to keep them safe.

Now Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress think they have found their "Terrorist threat," and that would be the Tea Party. Now they are trying to relate the Tea Party to Timothy McVeigh and say that if the Tea Party movement keeps on, some new Timothy McVeigh will come out of that movement and run amok like McVeigh, They are trying to play on the fears of the American people just like George Bush did. But don't think the American people are going to fall for that again. "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."

I wrote the following article back in 2001. Timothy McVeigh had blown up a federal building in Oklahoma, and nobody could figure out why. Today, the Democrats in Washington, with the help of our national media are trying to say that McVeigh and the people in the Tea Party movement have something in common. The Democrats want Americans to be afraid of the people in the Tea Party. The Democrats are afraid of the Tea Party, not because its members are supposed terrorists, but because it might prove to be the one force that could cost them their control of Congress. So, they will stoop to any means to make the Tea Party look bad. Here is the column I wrote back then:

Are Our Media Really This Dumb?
June 1, 2001
by James Glaser

I keep reading about Timothy McVeigh and how evil he is. I keep reading that these media people can't understand how he got the way he is, and how he could kill all those women and children.

Well surprise, surprise. We, our government, made him that way. Wake up, people. What do you think we do when we train our young people for war? Timothy McVeigh came home from the Persian Gulf war a hero with a Bronze Star for killing people. His side, our side, bombed the city of Bagdad and killed a lot of women and children. Remember the thousands we killed on that highway? Ever talk to a vet who watched as we buried thousands of Republican Guards alive, in those bunkers in the desert?

Timothy McVeigh came home to an America that was proud of what he and his army, our army, did. Timothy McVeigh bought into the story every vet gets that we were in the right, and those women and children that we had to kill were "collateral damage." Sorry, they just had to die for the greater good.

Timothy McVeigh came back to an America that was killing women and children at Waco. An America that was using snipers to kill women and children at Ruby Ridge. An America that was and is trying to disarm its people. An America that wouldn't believe thousands of the troops from McVeigh's army, when those troops said that they were sick. I believe that he wanted to fight for the America that he believed in. He fought for that America in the way he was taught by our government.

You and I can correctly say that what Timothy McVeigh did in bombing that federal building was a sick act, but for us to say we don't know why he did it is delusional. I am a Vietnam Vet, and I saw a lot of dead women, children, and old people who were collateral damage inflicted by us to "win the war." I asked at our VFW and, yes, those in Korea and WW2 also saw a lot of our killing of women and children in order to "win the war."

Americans have no idea what happens in a war. We are lucky in that respect. But we should never kid ourselves and think that our wars are clean, by-the-book wars. Also, we should never think that war doesn't have a very strong impact on those we send to fight them. When we as a country send thousands of men and now women to another country to kill. Those same young people have to come back and live with us, under different rules than we have taught them.

Timothy McVeigh is, I believe, a cost we pay for going to war. "What comes around, goes around."

Now, today, President Obama and the Democrats are trotting out Timothy McVeigh on the fifteenth anniversary of the Oklahoma Federal bombing, and are trying to instill fear in the American people. They have brought our former President Bill Clinton to talk about that bombing that happened under his watch.

Fear is a powerful emotion, but our government has gone to that well too many times, and the American people have figured out what is going on. Millions of Americans have gone to a Tea Party Rally or one of their loved ones has. They know that the Tea Party people are not the problem in America today.

The American people have come to understand that the problem with America is Washington, and that would be the Democrat Party along with the Republican Party. People in the Tea Party movement give neither political party a pass.

The real fear in America today is the fear our government has that the jig is up, and that the American people have finally figured out what is going on in Washington.

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