A retired judge sent me a copy of a speech Newt Gingrich gave recently. It was to a group in New Hampshire.
The part about terrorism was so compelling and probably so prescient, I thought, I’d like to offer you an excerpt or two:
I want to talk about very briefly about the genuine danger of terrorism, in particular terrorists using weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and biological weapons.
I want to suggest to you that right now we should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of supervision that we would never dream of if it weren't for the scale of threat.
Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in order to hide the bomb as baby milk.
These few excertps from Newt Gringrich's speech in Vermont are certainly part of an incredibly focused explanation of our current conflict and it's implications with the First Amendment. Although I'm only 27 years old, I've been reading constantly every since September 11, 2001 and have yet to hear anyone in our political circles speak so powerfully and clearly as Newt Gringrich. For anyone moving on to read the rest of the speech mentioned in the January 4, 2007 post here at FDD, please make sure you find your way to a video or transcript of Mr. Ginrich in an interview on Meet the Press on December 17, 2006. In this episode of the Sunday morning news program, Newt Gingrich gives one of the greatest televised performances of "owning" an interview that we may ever see.
Posted by: George | January 07, 2007 at 10:28 AM