Some bloggers have been internet dumpster-diving through 15 year old news items with which they are trying to assassinate my character and hinder my campaign. This disinformation may be published in the local paper(s), as well as being sent around the universe via email. The assertions and the mis-quotes would be disturbing if they were true. What is true and my response to them is as follows:
I am amazed at how quickly some who have never spoken to me or asked me about the veracity of these accounts are ready to throw me and my campaign under the bus.
First of all, you would have had to have been living in the western states during the Clinton administration to understand the tension his policies created during that dreadful time in history. Had I not been there I imagine I would have a difficult time understanding the drama his policies created. Using the Endangered Species Act he destroyed a significant portion of the logging industry that many rural communities depended on to survive. Where I lived the logging was shut down and then the Department of the Interior was moving to shut down ranching by listing some swallow-tail-something-or-other as endangered. They held meetings to inform the community that they may have to ban cattle or fence off their access to the river so the habitat of this bird would not be destroyed. This was completely insane. I thought it was a joke. The Clinton Admin, soon after, determined that forest rangers and other environmental officials were to be armed. This was a first! Combine this with the move to enact more gun legislation and you had gun owners scrambling for additional arms and ammo (sound familiar? Talk about déjà…) It was in this climate of fear (of losing one’s livelihood, not starting a range war…) that the Clinton Admin started by reporting on “white supremacist” and “cults” (believers in “end time” events) as a threat to domestic security, (again, sound familiar? Have you read the DHS report and the profile they have on you?) It seemed everyone who was against Clinton’s policies were to have their character assassinated by this type of “profiling”. That’s what you have to do. You have to “demonize” a group of people that resist you so you can attack them. That’s when our Government under Janet Reno murdered those dozens of men, women, and children in Waco,because they were considered a “cult” and may have been selling guns without permits. Do you soon forget the horror of that event? How many Americans sympathized with them? Not many. Why? Because Clinton had done his job successfully removing any regard for “those” people. They must have “asked for it”. Think about that. We sure did, because my God fearing, freedom loving, independent ranchers and loggers, were being made a part of his profiled “hit list”. They were being profiled as racists and gun loving lunatics. No one seemed to care that they were neither. Then they went after that family in Ruby Ridge and shot a mother as she stood holding her baby in an open door way. They were self-proclaimed racists. So did they “ask for it”? Should we declare open season on racists? I am no racist and have the bona fides to prove it. I am not a gun owner but I did participate with the Women on Target group in White Stone last year and intend to do so again. If I ever feel competent with a fire arm I will not be ashamed to obtain one. I am not a cult member and neither were my neighbors any of these things. But I didn’t get to define who I was, neither did my neighbors. The Clinton Admin did. (Now the Obama Administration is.)
I submit rather than be outraged at a group of innocent Americans terrorized into believing that our government was capable of any act of violence against them without any indictment or other due process, you should rather be outraged at our government! We didn’t need a “conspiracy theory” about what might happen, it was happening.
As far as the Bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City which happened during this season of other horrific events, I did and do believe that our government was culpable in the OKC bombing. This was not based on a “conspiracy theory” but on the analysis of Brigadier General Benton K. Partin (retired) who resides in Alexandria, Virginia who is an expert in weapons development. General Partin spent his own time and his own money personally visiting the site in OKC and publishing his analysis. From there he hand delivered a copy PERSONALLY to every single member of Congress. Congressman Trafficant was the only one willing to stand with him and call for a press conference to address it. The very next day Trafficant canceled and never spoke to the General again. This man is a patriot and a hero and I do not and will not recant my confidence in his report. I attach this youtube link for your reference:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4224779103128976372. I also don’t believe the official report of who shot JFK, does that scare you? General Partin’s assessment was brilliant and as far as I will ever be concerned, irrefutable.
I am not ashamed of standing with my friends and neighbors in New Mexico from the domestic terrorists known as our own government. I am thankful that the immediacy of that particular threat passed without greater conflict. These events happened 15 years ago and there has been nothing in my history since then until this present time that could possibly indicate an obsession with what the press tried to paint as “anti-government” activity. Nothing. They had to go back 15 years to find anything worth attempting to create and manufacture a frenzy out of. I learned in that day that the press is always willing to make an ass out of anyone they don’t understand or disagree with.
The reality of what happened, which was in no way represented with any integrity or authenticity in these “news releases”, was a dark chapter in our nation’s history and we would do well to recognize it being recreated today by our current Administration. This time, however, it is all of you, my fellow conservatives, my fellow Republicans, who are being profiled. Not a remote group isolated by geography and anonymity.
This is not what I would want to be known for but I will not run from this and I sure as heck will not apologize for it. Again, the recently released Homeland Security Report absolutely vindicates the concerns many honest, noble, American patriots, had then and, unfortunately, have now.
If this destroys the Republican Party’s confidence in me, so be it. I intend to stay true to my charge. I will not be dropping out of this race. In fact, I would think this should inspire greater confidence in my character as someone who will not be silent in the face of evil and will not remain silent when faced with a threat to my family, community, or my nation. In other words, should I win this election, when I swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of our State and/or our Nation, I will actually mean it.
If you go to my website and refresh your minds and thoughts with the concerns of our Founding Fathers in the Patriots Corner you will be reminded that if we fail to learn from the past we will and are repeating it. In fact, everyone of the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be on Clinton’s and Obama’s Domestic Terrorist List. I consider myself in good company.
Feel free to share this with anyone who cares. I will not be bullied by a leftist blog who wouldn’t understand the truth or righteousness or freedom if it bit him you-know-where.
Call with questions or concerns. I so appreciate a straight forward approach rather than cowardly sniping behind my back.
Sincerely,
Catherine Crabill
