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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That was the best book that I have read about that subject, but there was another called “Others Unknown” written by an ex-lawyer of McVeigh, that was also interesting.
Um, leftists have killed more than right-wingers.
Multiply that number by a few thousand and you get how many Muslim terrorists have killed.
I don’t know who did it. Could be it was a US citizen, although that does not necessarily means home grown. Citizenship ain’t what it used to be. We have US citizens joining ISIS.
“They couldn’t wait to execute Timothy McVeigh could they?”
That was McVeigh’s doing, he stopped all appeals. I think the Feds would have been happier if he hung around long enough to drop a dime on the several people who helped him.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed an emerging narrative of “Right Wing” extremism in the occupation media. This may be due to the 2016 elections and the need to develop the progressive battlefield. What is completely missing from every news report is 9/11. This has been erased from the American conscience.
Yep, what was it, 76 people burned alive including women and children? And for what? Because they practiced their constitutional rights of freedom of religion and their right to bear arms, therefore they were exterminated like bugs. I don’t condone in the least what McVeigh did, but the Clinton/Reno regime did just as worse and both of them walked.
Speaking of TWA Flight 800, did you read about the pilot last week who said it was a missile that brought it down? I absolutely believe it.
http://gothamist.com/2015/04/16/twa_flight_800_was_totally_shot_dow.php#photo-1
Yes, I saw that. That’s been my take since very shortly after the event.
Too many witnesses around that area saw the missile from different vantage points (around 180 degrees as I understand it), and each saw it head directly for TWA800.
The government thought they could nullify those eye-witness testimonies. Suuuuuure...
No sale. Thanks for the link.
I was living in NYC and I remember all sorts of reports of something flying up from about Jones Beach towards the aircraft (although nobody realized where it was headed until the explosion, obviously).
Another thing that is rarely or never mentioned is that this plane was not the one intended to go out in that slot. The flight that should have been there was an El Al flight to Tel Aviv, which lost its place in the line because of a late arriving passenger (IIRC). So what they were probably aiming for was the El Al flight, and this one just happened to have taken its place.
I would say Wounded Knee. Same aggressor, though.
Yes, it was somewhat of a surprise.
But what occurred in Waco which left a bunch of innocent kids shot to death and burned alive made most of America recoil.
If they had wanted to simply arrest Koresh for what ever, it would have been very simple for them to do so safely, without mass death to innocents one would expect to happen in a war zone.
IIRC, Nichols visited al-queda/islamic terrorists in the Philippines multiple times.
Add the first Islamic bombing of WTC and the USS Cole, Sick Willie Xlinton did NOTHING to retaliate against islamic attacks.
April 19th, the day the shot heard around the world was fired at Lexington.....In response to the British gun grabbing
April 19th, the day the government of the United States murdered 68 men, women and child at Waco Texas.. for no apparent reason other than to make a point that they could..
April 19th, McVeigh blows up the Federal building as retribution for Waco...
Homegrown terrorism still a threat decades after the Symbianese Liberation Army, Weather Underground, ELF, the Unibomber, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, and somebody threw a firecracker at my face on the 4th of July once, and we got into a fist fight, which I lost.
My guess was always that GHWB really believed that somehow the Saudis had been a great help during the first Gulf War, and that he and GWB both saw them as forces of sanity in the area. The problem is that they dealt exclusively with the Saudi Royal family, that has a very good existence and therefore no reason to want to see anything change. The Saudis in general are another story. The money to fund lots of problems in the Middle East comes from various Saudis. They don’t get their hands dirty, but they sure supply the juice.
The worst part of the story is that the Saudis may actually BE the sanest in the area. That just illustrates what a bunch of batshit crazies we are dealing with.
Bingo.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/630530/posts
Also IIRC Janya Davis was sued by they guy she ID’d and the judge threw it out.
Ah found it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3185843/posts
Yup.
Remember Clinton wanted his legacy to be mid east peace.
Or the Haymarket bombing. Terrorism it seems depends on ones political affiliation.
It also ignores McVeigh’s leftist leanings as well. I’d agree he wasn’t as wholly leftist as many domestic terrorists, but he wasn’t exactly a stereotype right-winger.
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