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
Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
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 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.'
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control.
I understand. It is the position I take now. I do not foresee changing this decision by January 11,
I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them, ... American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Yes, ... That thing in Oklahoma City, I guess.
Michael Fortier was charged with every charge we could convict him of.
Mr. McVeigh stated that he laid out the plan and that Terry Nichols alone broke into Moore's house and stole the weapons.
we sleep better that way ... But the truth is, there are people like him, armed to the teeth, waiting to overthrow the government.