Wilkerson, Lawrence - short clip - PoliticsofFear
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| - | As I said, when I was campaigning for President Obama, | 0:00 |
| close it, shut it down. | 0:05 | |
| - | And what would-- | 0:06 |
| - | I don't care | |
| if the, what is there 172 left or whatever, | 0:08 | |
| I don't care if they're all terrorists, | 0:11 | |
| and they go back to the battlefield. | 0:12 | |
| I am not a coward. | 0:13 | |
| Like apparently 50% of America is. | 0:15 | |
| I am not a coward. | 0:19 | |
| I have enough resiliency to understand | 0:20 | |
| that terrorism will always be with us, always. | 0:22 | |
| The best you can do is bring it down to a manageable level. | 0:25 | |
| Bring them here and let's try them. | 0:27 | |
| And if they're determined to be innocent | 0:29 | |
| for whatever reason, release them, you know? | 0:31 | |
| This is insane that we allow this to go on. | 0:33 | |
| Incidentally, more people die on the highways | 0:43 | |
| than have died in every nuclear accident | 0:48 | |
| and every terrorist attack combined, | 0:50 | |
| but we don't go, you know, | 0:51 | |
| excoriate the automobile or highways, or, | 0:53 | |
| this is insanity to me. | 0:56 | |
| This is the kind of insanity that, | 0:58 | |
| the politics of fear in particular, | 1:00 | |
| and bad leadership, lacking courage, brings about. | 1:03 | |
| And that leads to tyranny. | 1:06 |
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