When asked by a constituent about his policy to combat terrorism, Barksdale claims, “We are the ones that are in the wrong. We need to step back from the violence.”
Barksdale’s answer in it’s entirety:
When I read that – I mean to me that’s part of what this meeting is about. That’s part of what I say is, there’s a choice – we have a choice, and this (inaudible) – I feel like the fact that this conversation that we are having has moved all the way from ¬Vermont where it started 30 years ago, to Georgia, is telling me how deep and important the problem is, and how important it is for us to stop it. And, when I say that I believe it’s up for us – the cradle of the civil rights movement, the cradle of, of, of harder advocacy for human rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That we’ve got to crackdown to condemn violence. We can’t just keep raiding and high beaming. When the high beams are coming at you, and you raise the high beams at them. This is that circle of violence, and you become, yourself, a captive of violence. This is the course, and we’ve got to talk about that. I believe that the only way down is try cooling this. The urgency is now. Somebody has got to be strong enough and say ‘I’m not going to enter that circle of violence.’ It’s up to us, the strongest country in the world, that is going to have to start. We are the ones that are in the wrong. We need to step back from the violence.
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