Enemy Combatant
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
from billmon's blog:
Authority Figures
Schwarzenegger said on NBC's "Meet the Press'' that he fears worsening protests about the divisive issue and worries the situation could get out of hand if courts don't quickly stop the marriages, which are being performed in defiance of existing state law.
"All of a sudden, we see riots, we see protests, we see people clashing. The next thing we know, there is injured or there is dead people. We don't want it to get to that extent."
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Meet the Press Interview
February 23, 2004
Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle
Faubus appeared on Little Rock's KTHV-TV and announced that he had called out the militia "to maintain or restore the peace and good order of this community." The city, he said, was on the brink of riot: "The evidence of discord, anger and resentment has come to me from so many sources as to become a deluge!"
Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus
Radio Address on the Little Rock Desegregation Case
September 2, 1957
Quoted in The Glory and the Dream
By William Manchester
At the terminal, the [freedom riders] made their way to the bus landing and braced themselves for the wait . . . Radio reports announced that Governor Patterson was correcting previous statements attributed to him. "I refuse to guarantee their safe passage," he said, soon adding that "the citizens of the state are so enranged that I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabblerousers."
Alabama Gov. John Patterson
Comments on the Freedom Riders
May 15, 1961
Quoted in Parting the Waters: America in the King Years
By Taylor Branch
Governor Vandiver, from whom it had been difficult to pry any statement so long as Albany's whites were on the defensive, had all but taken to the rooftops. "I want all troublemakers to know that I will do whatever is necessary to prevent violence at Albany, Georgia," he announced.
Georgia Gov. Ernest Vandiver
Comments on Civil Rights Protestors
July 25, 1962
Quoted in Parting the Waters: America in the King Years
By Taylor Branch
An hour later, after touring the crowded, gun-laden streets of Oxford, Barnett called Kennedy again . . . "There are several thousand people here in cars, trucks," he said. ". . . There is liable to be a hundred people killed here. It would ruin all of us. Please believe me . . . a lot of people are going to get killed. It would be embarrassing to me."
Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett
Conversation with President Kennedy
regarding the desegregation of Ole Miss
September 27, 1962
Quoted in Parting the Waters: America in the King Years
By Taylor Branch
True peace is not merely the absence of tension.
It is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted by billmon at February 25, 2004 04:36 AM
