Yet, this peaceful person is advocating the murder of President George W. Bush. In a speech before 1,000 people Wednesday, Ms. Williams said that violence is a choice and the push for peace takes hard work and commitment.
"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that." As she made her point, she chuckled and some members of the audience laughed.
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Audio: 'Right now, I could kill George Bush' (Note: The International Women's Peace Conference states that Ms. Williams' opinions are her own.)
Ms. Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped start peace talks in Northern Ireland, also said that Mr. Bush should be impeached. About half the audience responded to that with a standing ovation.
The speech, given in the city that will host Mr. Bush's presidential library, caused a stir on talk radio and Internet sites, and among those attending the conference.
"Threatening the president of the United States is a crime," conservative talk show host Mike Gallagher said on his nationally syndicated program, which airs in Dallas. "Many of us are resentful at a so-called Nobel Peace Prize laureate having the audacity to threaten the life of our commander in chief."
Mr. Gallagher is correct. Ms. Williams needs to be led away in chains, frogmarched out of the women's conference. However, some emptyheaded bonbon muncher at the conference doesn't think so...wonder what she would have thought if Bill would have been threatened
"It was an incredible act of bravery to make that statement in Texas," said Lucinda Marshall of Louisville, Ky., who added that the anti-Bush rhetoric appealed to her. "When you have a president that's consistently breaking the law, you do not have a democracy. You have a dictatorship."
OK, not only a bonbon muncher, but an inbred waste of trash from South of the Ohio border. This stupid woman, tell me, what laws has Bush broken? I can quote to you at least 10 that Bubba broke. Tell me, how is it a dictatorship? If it were, you and Ms. Williams would be shot. Which, on the whole of it, is not such a terrible idea. I hope you, Ms. Marshall, did not pollute the gene pool by having children.
