Domestic Terrorism

[GMDino]

(09-28-2017, 07:54 PM)Vlad Wrote: Superficially at worst.


His motivations had zero to do with white supremacy and everything to do with being anti government/ US military.

He sounded more like a white liberal than a white supremacist.

In fact he says the same shit thats been said on these boards.

In a 1,200-word essay[105] dated March 1998, from the federal maximum-security prison at Florence, Colorado, McVeigh claimed that the terrorist bombing was "morally equivalent" to U.S. military actions against Iraq and other foreign countries. The handwritten essay, submitted to and published by the alternative national news magazine Media Bypass, was distributed worldwide by the Associated Press on May 29, 1998. This was written in the midst of the 1998 Iraq disarmament crisis and a few months before Operation Desert Fox.

The essay, which marked the first time that McVeigh publicly discussed the Oklahoma City bombing, continued:

McVeigh included photocopies of a famous Vietnam War-era picture showing terrified children fleeing napalm bombs, and of nuclear devastation in Japan. He said in a preface that the essay was intended to "provoke thought — and was not written with malevolent intent."

On April 26, 2001, McVeigh wrote a letter to Fox News, I Explain Herein Why I Bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which explicitly laid out his reasons for the attack.[106] McVeigh read Unintended Consequences and said that if it had come out a few years earlier, he would have given serious consideration to using sniper attacks in a war of attrition against the government instead of bombing a federal building.[107]

Can you agree Dino?....  that he takes the same positions as you Dill and others,  right?

No doubt much of his motivation was his part of the militia movement.  He loved him some guns show and and the Turner Diaries.

He also thought he was in a movie and compared a lot of what he did to Star Wars.

Nonetheless he was not a "liberal".  

Hell, if he was a registered democrat and said "I'm a liberal" he wouldn't have been a liberal based on his other actions and words.

But dividing the country into two easy to hate parties seems to be the latest spin action around here so have at it.