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Ferguson, former george w. Bush Administration Justice from an official john you and awardwinning author shall be steel it up first, here is a portion of a 2013 interview with George Scholz, secretary of state during the reagan administration. He talked about his book, issues on my mind. And issues on my mind you right when it comes to terrorism we in this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice and means a more active defense and deterrence must be considered and given the necessary political support. Well, you say if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen and then we find out who did it and then we try them in a u. S. Court and if we make them guilty with their endless appeals they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrent but in the meantime the terrorist act has t
All these whites have it in for you and that is why you are doing badly. I had done badly in harlem and i overcame it. Reporter what happened there . I graduated. I thought you said you went to howard. I was going to howard in the evening while working fulltime during the day so at harvard i was a fulltime feature first time in 10 years so that was what years did you go to harvard . I graduated in 1968 so you can understand, talking about recently a black man in law school was told professor x never takes black students and he got a b plus but there was great consternation but it is truly criminal what goes on in terms of using and manipulating students to serve all kinds of external things. Host give us an example of what you are talking about. Guest political purposes, the investment campaign. The administration, the whole thing. They are threatened with violence. At stanford the hispanic students have complained the hispanic establishment has threatened them with what is said and do
Department officials, john and awardwinning author, shelby steele. At first, heres a portion of the 2013 interview with George Schultz freed secretary of state during the Reagan Administration he talked about his book issues on my mind. And the issues on my mind, you write that when it comes to terrorism, this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved and if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend that. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice. Needs of our active defense must be considered and given the necessary political support. Estate if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say okay, but a terrorist attack happened. Then we find out who did it. And then we try them in the u. S. Court. And we find them guilty. Then they go to jail. What has that accomplished. A certain deterrence but in the meantime, tara stark has taken place. In the terrorist act like 911 can kill a lot of people. So if you know something is co