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
we sleep better that way ... But the truth is, there are people like him, armed to the teeth, waiting to overthrow the government.
Yes, ... That thing in Oklahoma City, I guess.
Tim told me that Terry no longer wanted to help him mix the bomb, ... Terry would have to help him because he was in it so far.
When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.
If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years.
I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion. I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.
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.
Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City.
I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them.
Kids are fair game; women are fair game.
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.'
But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.
After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.