Could Tea Party Rhetoric Lead to Another Oklahoma City?

CBS NEWS ^ | 19 APRIL 2010 | CBS NEWS

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It was fifteen years ago today that Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people by detonating an explosives-filled truck near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in the nation's deadliest-ever homegrown terrorist attack.

McVeigh was an anti-government extremist inspired by the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco; he railed against taxes, gun control and federal interference in Americans' lives.

Those who betray the Constitution, he wrote in a letter, "are domestic enemies and should and will be punished accordingly." After the attacks, McVeigh suggested that he acted for the "larger good" and said that even if he were executed, it would still be "168 to one."

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Who is this guy, “CBS News?”

[Bigtigermike]

Reichstag fire

Reichstag fire

Reichstag fire

Reichstag fire

Reichstag fire

[GeronL]

Meanwhile real violence by the left will be totally ignored.

[TigerBait]

Ignoring the George W. Bush riots and calls for assassination and...

Now Dems love the Patriot Act and are all for law and order and curbing free speech. Love it.

[tacticalogic]

Possible, but more likely that left wing rhetoric will lead to another unabomber.

[AlaskaErik]

This is the blatant leftist garbage that has totally turned me against ever watching the alphabet networks evening newscasts. I am so done with them.

[Bigtigermike]

....The day after the fire Hitler asked for and received from President Hindenburg the Reichstag Fire Decree, signed into law by Hindenburg using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany and was used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause. Despite the fact that Marinus van der Lubbe claimed to have acted alone in the Reichstag fire, Hitler, after having obtained his emergency powers, announced that it was the start of a Communist plot to take over Germany.......

[GoCards]

Stupid. They look ridiculous and scared.

[Allegra]

CBS is in top twist ‘n spin mode.

Does anybody watch them anymore?

[MrChips]

http://www.thepatriotsflag.com/2010/03/violence-against-republicans/

[SgtBob]

FReepers vote on the CBS poll with the story!

Any FReeper who is ‘puter smart best make a thread!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Could SeeBS’s dumbass commie rhetoric lead to more FOX News Channels?

[Mr. Mojo]

Those who betray the Constitution, [McVeigh] wrote in a letter, "are domestic enemies and should and will be punished accordingly."

So the brain-dead wuss then goes out and kills a bunch of innocent people.

[TigerBait]

Knew SOMEONE would say it was an inside job:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIV90WfPzOc

[BunnySlippers]

I’m sick of the militia meme. I’m a woman in LA going to work everyday!

McVeigh was a terrorist. Koresh, no better IMO.

[onyx]

Should Americans be concerned that heated rhetoric will incite domestic terrorism?

66% = YES

33% = NO

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PEOPLE ARE FREAKING-UNBELIEVABLY STUPID!

NO WONDER WE HAVE OBAMA.

[Darkwolf377]

Wow this is just like all the similar stories about when Bush was president, and “Regime change begins at home” became their slogan! Remember all those stories???? (crickets)

[BigSkyFreeper]

Koresh was a kook, but that’s no reason to kill him or his followers who were just minding their own business. They weren’t a threat to anyone.

[laconic]

I guess this is only fair, given all the stories CBS “news” ran about the proud unrepetant bomber William Ayers and his wonderful wife, the unrepetant terrorist Miss Dohrn.