Posted on 04/19/2015 7:48:00 AM PDT by PROCON
(CNN)—Twenty years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The attack killed 168 men, women and children, injured hundreds more, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
The attack's aftermath saw a storm of media coverage with themes such as "attack on the heartland" and America's "lost innocence." In fact, the bombing took the country by surprise. It wasn't simply the scale of the tragedy that drew attention, but the fact that the bombing exposed something new: American citizens targeting their own government with a deadliness hitherto unseen.
The public became aware of the true danger of the extreme right. Reports connected McVeigh and his accomplice Terry Nichols to anti-government ideology movements, such as the militia movement, as well as to white supremacist causes.
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Bill Clinton blamed talk radio, (can you say Rush Limbaugh?).
Yup, right-wing terrorism seems to be the focus of the Obama regime.
But at least right-wing extremism isn't as dangerous as climate change is to these people.
Right wing, home grown extremists. Obama’s “Squirrel” to deflect his Muslim roots and religion and blatant refusal to address the problem of religious Muslim zealot infiltrators within our borders and those sappers outside our border aching to destroy us.
OK, judged by raw body count it was the deadliest. But the most diabolical act of domestic terrorism remains Waco.
They couldn’t wait to execute Timothy McVeigh could they? And what about the Iraqi connection to the bombing?
American citizens targeting their govt was something new after the OK city bombing?
Two words for these mental little people.
Bill Ayers
The Tea Party did it, right?
Everybody journ-0-list knows that!
I’m still looking for those “Six dark complected men, of Middle East extraction, last seen fleeing the scene in blue jogging suits”. As ABC reported that morning.
What about the extremist running the executive branch of the federal government and the Democratic party.
“but the fact that the bombing exposed something new: American citizens targeting their own government with a deadliness hitherto unseen.”
The United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954, by fourPuerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from theLadies’ Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of theHouse of Representatives chamber in theUnited States Capitol. They wanted to highlight their desire for Puerto Rican independence from US rule.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_shooting_incident_%281954%29
List of Weatherman actions
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Weatherman_actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQCpUhONtk
Interesting thing, this selective amnesia liberals seem to suffer from.
The ADL compiled an interesting list of right-wing conspiracies and attacks here:
http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/combating-hate/Right-Wing-Plots-Acts-Conspiracies-1995-2015.pdf
Most of them are just loner nuts, but there are enough true conspiracies to worry those of us with respect for the law and Constitution.
They are afraid of anyone who wouldn’t violate their principles due to their religious beliefs.
John Doe number 2. Which they never really looked for after they found the patsy. And don’t forget that TWA flight that was shot down.
Exactly.
Many people here might be unfamiliar with the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, which killed at least 120 men, women and children, and maybe more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre
Where CNN is really heading: Timmothy McVeigh=anyone not subscribing to the left wing agenda. Anyone criticizing Obama or Billary. Anyone who owns a gun. Anyone and everyone depending on the moment and need.
So, to recap, all of the FBI's most wanted domestic terrorists are leftists, because right wing terrorism is such a threat.
In other words, CNN, we should all pay no attention to those behind the curtain in the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” crowd advocating violence against police and, let’s just say it, white people in general. We should pay no attention to those “mythical” ISIS extremists and their litany of horrors. Oh no, the real threat is from those who don’t share your political ideology, like gun owners.
Nice catch, LB.
Ha, good catch, deceased one; in other words, let’s not let the facts get in the way of our beliefs.
I just got to the second one that list. I remember the story about Chevie Kehoe killing the gun dealer and family. Although it was true that Kehoe could be considered anti-gov’t nut, this crime was murder with robbery as a motive, not domestic anti-gov’t terrorism as is described in ADL.
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