THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, May 6, 1995 TAG: 9505050022
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 40 lines
I have watched, fascinated, as recently the president of the United States and his cohorts in the liberal news media have attacked conservatives and talk radio, blaming them for triggering the fruitcake who set the bomb in Oklahoma City with ``hate talk.''
Between them, these liberals have labled anyone who disagrees with them ``right-wing wackos,'' ``extremists,'' ``hate-mongers,'' etc.
And this past Sunday The Virginian-Pilot weighed in with its own personal bug-in-the-ear paranoia and implicated Pat Robertson in the bombing. After all, he wrote a book called The New World Order which all these nutcases read and took seriously.
This book is a best-seller, read by millions. Are all of them nutcases?
In an ever-changing world, it is comforting to see some things remain the same, and your paper's neuroses against Pat Robertson fill the bill nicely.
Let us chart this growth of the distrust of the motives and actions of the federal government to its source. When did it all start?
I submit that it reached full strength with the inauguration of Bill Clinton as president, for he proceeded to unleash his leftist/socialist ideology on this country, planning socialized medicine for us and turning the BATF loose on innocent Americans who happen to own guns and want to be left alone to live their lives in peace.
Under his administration, money is given to the Russian soldiers to buy homes while our own soldiers have to use food stamps to feed their families. Farmers are jailed for killing rodents with tractors, and loggers' families starve so owls have a tree to live in. And Clinton wonders why some see the federal government as their enemy?
Mrs. JOHN T. PHILLIPS
Norfolk, May 2, 1995 by CNB