Garin~Clinton Chief Strategist~Called For Violent Revolution

[pkz]

Philip Weiss, who attended Harvard with Garin more than 30 years ago, recalls that he was "a special guy -- softspoken, funny, brilliant. He was also a radical. In 1973, on an anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Garin called for violent revolution in the United States" in the student paper, the Crimson:

...America and much of the world is living dangerously close to oppression. ... Whether Americans will soon become steadfast in their resistance to oppression depends on their coming to understand what resistance is all about. The way we celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party will gauge the depth of that understanding.... Freedom is on the wane in this country and repression is on the rise all over the world. We can no longer sit back and swap stories about the good old revolution. We have to start worrying about the present. On this anniversary we must recognize that the patriots of Boston acted wisely in overthrowing their oppressors and the time is come to express our confidence in what our forefathers did by doing it ourselves.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/30/geoff-garin-clinton-chief_n_99336.html

[leftofcool]

1. So did I in the 60's What's your point?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Wow- That Must Mean He's A Jeffersonian Democrat

"Every generation needs a new revolution."

-Thomas Jefferson