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How Timothy McVeigh's Ideals Entered the Mainstream (Yeah, they went there)
Newsweek ^ | June 1, 2015 | Nina Burleigh

Posted on 06/01/2015 6:28:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican presidential candidates gathered last month at the Oklahoma City Cox Conference Center, just a few blocks from the site of what was the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building. Two decades ago, anti-government militia sympathizer Timothy McVeigh blew it up in what he called an act of war against the U.S. government. It was the worst crime of domestically bred terrorism in American history. McVeigh was executed in 2001, but since then, some of his militia ideals have gone mainstream and even been introduced as laws in many states, including Oklahoma.

Legislators in dozens of states have submitted proposals to nullify or block federal laws—a longtime goal of militias. These have included exempting states from federal gun laws and educational standards, as well as, of course, Obamacare. That doesn’t make these anti-federal statutes part of McVeigh’s madness, but Republican politicians now often echo conspiracy theories once relegated to troglodyte pamphlets. And several states have passed laws making gold a currency—a step toward returning to the gold standard—even though currency is a federal responsibility.

When Cliven Bundy engaged in an armed standoff with Bureau of Land Management agents in 2014, after a federal court order demanded he get his cattle off federal land, as he hadn’t paid grazing fees for 20 years, several of the current Republican presidential candidates sided with the outlaw. As armed militia members converged in Nevada to protect Bundy, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas called the events “the unfortunate and tragic culmination of the path President Obama has set the federal government on.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: clivenbundy; dnctalkingpoints; militia; newsweak; ninaburleigh; pravdamedia; stalinisttactics; teaparty; tedcruz
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To: IncPen

That photo and his consideration that he may not have put his terrorist past completely behind him ran ON 9-11-2001 in the NY Times.


41 posted on 06/01/2015 9:05:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Nifster

Suspect #3 was an Iraqi intelligence agent.

42 posted on 06/01/2015 9:20:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A better book on this subject was by Jayna Davis. She did the seminal work.

The book is titled The Third Terrorist


43 posted on 06/02/2015 5:11:51 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

It hard for Keith to write from the grave.


44 posted on 06/02/2015 5:16:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MC VEIGH AND NICOLS were trained by Ramsay Yousef cousin of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (on vacation in gitmo 9/11 ... one of the 3 waterboarded...) and thus the al queda connection...
bomb making documents found in afghanistan contain a statement..”just like okc”...
besides, the BATF and FBI had informants in Elohim City who informed them of Mc Veigh’s intentions. Video tapes of the dropoff of the OKC truck have been suppressed by the FBI and there was an iraqi seen exiting the truck with Mc Veigh who later showed up at Boston Logan as a security guard on 9/11....... Extensive research has been done and multiple books written with more facts. One of whcih is that Mc Veigh and Nicols stayed in a midwest motel at the same time as the 20th hijacker Moussoui... all coincidence of course...


45 posted on 06/02/2015 7:15:01 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ms. Davis covered this story from day one....she nailed the third terrorist outright (name and picture).


46 posted on 06/02/2015 7:54:08 PM PDT by Nifster
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