Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeighwas an American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the detonation of a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bombing, the attack killed 168 people and injured over 600. According to the United States Government, it was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11 attacks, and remains the most significant act of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth23 April 1968
CountryUnited States of America
He walked back and put his hands up to the glass (against my hands), ... He smiled ... and off he went.
Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
If people are allowed to destroy property...it's a slippery slope.
I didn't say that ... but they didn't prove it.
If I had known there was an entire day-care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets. That's a large amount of collateral damage,
I asked him why. He gave me the whole list of reasons. But it didn't make much sense to me. It was a bunch of stuff the government did, and the last straw was Waco,
I asked him if he would apologize, and he said, 'No.' He said, if he did apologize, he'd make a lot of people happy, but he'd be lying,
the effect that they have is going to be up to the listener.
The important thing here is: One person can make a difference.
Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.
After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.
But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.
I do believe in a God, yes. But that's as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that are personal like that, it gives people an easier way to alienate themselves from me and that's all they are looking for now.
I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.'