{"id":668,"date":"2005-04-20T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/oklahoma-city\/"},"modified":"2005-04-20T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T07:15:34","slug":"oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/oklahoma-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember the day after the bombing of Oklahoma City, I was at the Y. Two guys near me discussed loudly how likely it was that the government (read, “Democrats”) had blown up the building as a pretext to a coming fascist movement. I could only listen to so much of this madness before I said they were nuts. One of the two virtually exploded on the spot, pounding the adjacent stairmaster. “Do you want to take this outside?!,” he bellowed in rage. No thanks.<\/p>\n

After he calmed down a bit, he sought me out to help me see the coming threat. “You see those little cameras above the traffic lights?” I felt sorry for him at that point, a little less afraid of him.<\/p>\n

This guy was no liberal<\/i> wacko. I doubt he voted for Kerry 9 years later. But he probably hates the Patriot Act even more than I do. Common ground in uncommon places.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City showed us the correct response — what we didn’t get right after 9\/11. After OK City, we got the perpetrators (some of them). We did NOT turn the country into a frightened fortress. I still think the greatest threat is within. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: Domestic terrorism threats continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember the day after the bombing of Oklahoma City, I was at the Y. Two guys near me discussed loudly how likely it was that the government (read, “Democrats”) had blown up the building as a pretext to a coming fascist movement. I could only listen to so much of this madness before I … Continue reading Oklahoma City<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}