OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

On April 19, 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols received life in prison. Until September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst terrorist attack to take place on U.S. soil.

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We were living in Japan at the time, getting re-oriented after the big earthquake in January. I was surprised how much attention the bombing got there.

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I was finishing up my Photo degree, and we were all sitting around watching a TV in the prof's office while our stuff dried.

I was about 2 miles from the blast. It shook buildings 2 miles away.

One of Mrs. Buzz's cousins, who was in law enforcement there, was on TV several times in the immediate aftermath. He retired from law enforcement shortly thereafter, even though he was only in his late forties... it really got to him.
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I was home watching the immediate aftermath on the tube. I was amazed at how much damage to life and property a terrorist could do with a basic rental truck partially loaded with fuel oil soaked fertilizer.

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The cause and effect.....

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I was at work. Since that was a federal building the NASA center and adjoining air force base went into lockdown. It was especially horrifying for us parents who had our kids in daycare on federal property. Security really changed after that.

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The cause and effect.....

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Hard to say what the cause and effect are for someone with a terrorist mindset. Maybe they are easily influenced by propaganda. Or they have gotten some warped religious or political belief from family or friends. Or revenge like the recent murderer in Cleveland. Some are just crazy.

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The cause and effect.....

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Hard to say what the cause and effect are for someone with a terrorist mindset. Maybe they are easily influenced by propaganda. Or they have gotten some warped religious or political belief from family or friends. Or revenge like the recent murderer in Cleveland. Some are just crazy.

Hardly all that.
It is easy to dismiss every revenge resistance to government misdeeds as terrorism.
In fact McVeigh actions, even if viewed as wrong and misguided, were anything but terrorism.
They were focused on the single adversary. His collateral civilian damage, unconnected to government employees, was not any different, if not lesser, than what our military inflicted in our missions in that time period.
The cover up of Waco was the final straw that drove McVeigh to the point of action, that is not an unknown mystery....

Who authorized McVeigh's terrorist attack?

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Are you drawing an equivalent between our military acting against a firing population and an individual with no ground vernment authorization? That's the end of a government of law.

"Even if wrong and misguided..." Are you are intimating that the murder of innocents wasn't wrong and misguided? Why not say "Even though wrong and misguided..."?

What definition of terrorism are you using that excludes this? The focus is on a single adversary? Where does that come from, the 4th Circuit of Homer Simpson? Oh, wait a minute, I see, you're going Godwin's law for the win!
"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
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The cause and effect.....

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Hard to say what the cause and effect are for someone with a terrorist mindset. Maybe they are easily influenced by propaganda. Or they have gotten some warped religious or political belief from family or friends. Or revenge like the recent murderer in Cleveland. Some are just crazy.

Hardly all that.
It is easy to dismiss every revenge resistance to government misdeeds as terrorism.
In fact McVeigh actions, even if viewed as wrong and misguided, were anything but terrorism.
They were focused on the single adversary. His collateral civilian damage, unconnected to government employees, was not any different, if not lesser, than what our military inflicted in our missions in that time period.
The cover up of Waco was the final straw that drove McVeigh to the point of action, that is not an unknown mystery....

You are mistaking an objective analysis for an opinion.

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Are you drawing an equivalent between our military acting against a firing population and an individual with no ground vernment authorization? That's the end of a government of law.

I dont, McVeigh did.
Adding "no ground vernment authorization?" is your statement.
You ideal government subverted the law in the first place when it came to actions in Waco and the resultant massacre. At McVeigh;s trial, both sides, the prosecution and the defense discussed the direct correlation, the cause and effect. Waco being the cause.



Do you understand what is terrorism? ie an intentionally indiscriminate use of violence to create terror and fear...
McVeigh believed that Oklahoma City was the command and control center responsible for all decisions
concerning government massacre in Waco, making it a focus of his actions, hardly an indiscriminate bombing....
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The only difference between McVeigh and the government is that government officials responsible for murder of close to a hundred Americans were not only not punished, they were promoted...

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"Even if wrong and misguided..." Are you are intimating that the murder of innocents wasn't wrong and misguided? Why not say "Even though wrong and misguided..."?

What definition of terrorism are you using that excludes this? The focus is on a single adversary? Where does that come from, the 4th Circuit of Homer Simpson? Oh, wait a minute, I see, you're going Godwin's law for the win!
"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
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The cause and effect.....

[www.famous-trials.com]

Hard to say what the cause and effect are for someone with a terrorist mindset. Maybe they are easily influenced by propaganda. Or they have gotten some warped religious or political belief from family or friends. Or revenge like the recent murderer in Cleveland. Some are just crazy.

Hardly all that.
It is easy to dismiss every revenge resistance to government misdeeds as terrorism.
In fact McVeigh actions, even if viewed as wrong and misguided, were anything but terrorism.
They were focused on the single adversary. His collateral civilian damage, unconnected to government employees, was not any different, if not lesser, than what our military inflicted in our missions in that time period.
The cover up of Waco was the final straw that drove McVeigh to the point of action, that is not an unknown mystery....

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You are mistaking an objective analysis for an opinion.

The only difference between McVeigh and the government is that government officials responsible for murder of close to a hundred Americans were not only not punished, they were promoted...

Ah, so this is an example of objective analysis, not opinion. I see.

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You are mistaking an objective analysis for an opinion.

The only difference between McVeigh and the government is that government officials responsible for murder of close to a hundred Americans were not only not punished, they were promoted...

Ah, so this is an example of objective analysis, not opinion. I see.

Which facts do you disagree with, Speedy.
Was there a legal process where these people were charged and judged before they were executed by the jackbooted thugs of our government?
Was any one in charge the massacre ever held responsible for the botched up operation, Speedy?
Did not close to a hundred men, women and children die for nothing?
Did not McVeigh get executed, while the agents in charge got promoted?
Yes, once promotions became publicized the public blowback caused enough uproar that the agents got transferred, but the fact is that somebody in government thought they deserved a promotion for the massacre.
So what so you object to, Speedy, the inconvenience of facts?....

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You are mistaking an objective analysis for an opinion.

The only difference between McVeigh and the government is that government officials responsible for murder of close to a hundred Americans were not only not punished, they were promoted...

Ah, so this is an example of objective analysis, not opinion. I see.

Which facts do you disagree with, Speedy.
Was there a legal process where these people were charged and judged before they were executed by the jackbooted thugs of our government?
Was any one in charge the massacre ever held responsible for the botched up operation, Speedy?
Did not close to a hundred men, women and children die for nothing?
Did not McVeigh get executed, while the agents in charge got promoted?
Yes, once promotions became publicized the public blowback caused enough uproar that the agents got transferred, but the fact is that somebody in government thought they deserved a promotion for the massacre.
So what so you object to, Speedy, the inconvenience of facts?....

No, the revisionist history.

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If I shoot some white guy for the sins of slavery, someone could apply a cause & effect historical thread.

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You are mistaking an objective analysis for an opinion.

The only difference between McVeigh and the government is that government officials responsible for murder of close to a hundred Americans were not only not punished, they were promoted...

Ah, so this is an example of objective analysis, not opinion. I see.

Which facts do you disagree with, Speedy.
Was there a legal process where these people were charged and judged before they were executed by the jackbooted thugs of our government?
Was any one in charge the massacre ever held responsible for the botched up operation, Speedy?
Did not close to a hundred men, women and children die for nothing?
Did not McVeigh get executed, while the agents in charge got promoted?
Yes, once promotions became publicized the public blowback caused enough uproar that the agents got transferred, but the fact is that somebody in government thought they deserved a promotion for the massacre.
So what so you object to, Speedy, the inconvenience of facts?....

No, the revisionist history.

And you have nothing to show how it is so, do you Speedy?
Neither could you disprove any of the facts you objected as being inconvenient to your comfort, Speedy.

Your entire objection boils down to you being uncomfortable with history.
The inconvenient history.....

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If I shoot some white guy for the sins of slavery, someone could apply a cause & effect historical thread.

Somebody could, vision,
but in this case, it was the government that brought it up,

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Instead, the officials said, they believe the attack was carefully planned and deliberately timed for the second anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's tear gas assault on the compound of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco on April 19, 1993, and occurred after months of preparation involving tests of explosives and discussion about delivery methods and possible targets.

Mr. McVeigh's motive appears to center on his extreme anger over the deaths of more than 80 people in the fiery assault in Waco, but some investigators are uncertain of his role within what they believe is a small group of conspirators. Some investigators doubt that he had the leadership capacity to have written such a complex plot and theorize that another suspect will prove to be the ringleader.

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as by McVeigh himself.

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'I explain herein why I bombed the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong. I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.

"I chose to bomb a federal building because such an action served more purposes than other options. Foremost the bombing was a retaliatory strike; a counter attack for the cumulative raids (and subsequent violence and damage) that federal agents had participated in over the preceding years (including, but not limited to, Waco). From the formation of such units as the FBI's Hostage Rescue and other assault teams amongst federal agencies during the 80s, culminating in the Waco incident, federal actions grew increasingly militaristic and violent, to the point where at Waco, our government - like the Chinese - was deploying tanks against its own citizens.

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Neither of this is a secret, nor deeply buried.
Why do you find the truth so inconvenient that you feel the need to deny the history, to deny the direct cause and effect.....