Some might consider this witness intimidation:
By Phil Brennan
His name is Gary Johnson. Back in 1990, he lived in the Quapaw Towers Apartment in Little Rock, Arkansas, a
residence that turned out to be, for him, a very hazardous place to be indeed.
Hazardous because his former next door neighbor had been a TV reporter named Gennifer Flowers, and even more
hazardous because he had a security camera mounted above his door which showed not only those visiting him, but
also those calling on Gennifer Flowers.
One of her frequent visitors was the then-governor of the state, one William Jefferson Clinton.
When news of Clinton's affair with Miss Flowers broke, the governor vigorously denied having been her lover-- a
fact which Gary knew to be untrue. For one thing, he had video tape from his security camera showing Clinton
entering Flower's apartment.
"I had been Gennifer Flower's neighbor and I knew that Bill Clinton wasn't telling the truth," He recalled. "I'm by
no means the only one who saw Bill Clinton at Quapaw Towers. It was an open secret that he was seeing Gennifer
Flowers."
When a lawsuit was filed which named Flowers as one of Clinton's paramours, Gary and his tapes were subpoenaed.
He began to get threatening calls, warning him against talking about the Clinton's surreptitious visits to Flowers.
"Basically what they said was: 'Mind your Own Business.' All it did was make me mad. I never thought in a million
years that anybody would follow up on it."
He was wrong.
Only two days after getting the subpoena, Gary Johnson was found in his apartment, battered and bloody, and nearly
beaten to death. Both his elbows were dislocated, his collar bones were broken, his spleen and his bladder were
ruptured with holes in them the size of half dollars, and his nose and his sinus cavities were crushed.
Johnson said his assailants, who he described as being very large men, demanded the incriminating tapes. He
complied, upon which the men proceeded to beat him senseless.
"They looked like State Troopers," Johnson recalled. "Clinton can be a very dangerous individual," he added. "I
think Bill Clinton would do just about anything to save his political hide."
This is an incident worth remembering in light of the First Lady's assertions, echoed by her husband's White
House toadies, that the efforts of those who have sought to expose the president's shady background and continuous
criminal wrongdoing are motivated solely by either irrational hatred of the man, or by their complicity in some
"vast right wing conspiracy," to undo the results of the last two presidential elections.
In the days following exposure of the latest Clinton scandal, the man's opponents have been rightly outraged by the
sleaziness of his reaction to the charges -- the stonewalling, lying, the slandering of his accusers and the special
prosecutor -- all hallmarks of his often employed defensive tactics when faced with the undeniable.
Those who have taken the trouble to examine Clinton's sleazy past recognize the danger he poses to this nation's
liberty and sovereignty. They know the facts brand him as a liar, a man mired in decades of corruption and deceit.
Can they be blamed for demanding that he at last be held accountable for his actions, just as you and I are held
accountable for what we do?
Is that a conspiracy? Is that irrational hatred? Or is it just plain common sense?
Johnson's experience was no isolated incident. Time after time, Clinton and his henchmen have proved they "would
do anything to save his political hide," as he put it.
Anything.
He is a very dangerous man.
Ask Gary Johnson. |
