JUSTICE...................not "revenge"

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JUSTICE...................not "revenge" !!!!


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-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

Answers

THE LOSER:

For many years, McVeigh’s struggled to find a place that would accept 
him. When his associate college, Bryant and Stratton, forced him to 
add liberal arts to his computer studies, he dropped out to return to 
his job at Burger King. When neighbors complained about noise from 
his frequent target practice in his father’s back yard, he bought a 
plot of land in rural southwest New York so he could have some peace. 
His comfort with the structure and rules of Army life morphed into 
betrayal when he discovered the politics that governed so much of 
armed service. His sense of place in rural Arizona, which stoked his 
survivalist interests, was scuttled by his marijuana- and 
methamphetamine-laced respite with Army buddy and eventual accomplice 
Michael Fortier.
       In the end he determined, as he told his biographers from his 
prison cell, “This world just doesn’t hold anything for me.”
       
A GROWING HATRED
       McVeigh was born in the town of Pendleton, N.Y.; his mother 
Mickey and father Bill tried to provide a stable middle-class home 
for their three children. But the marriage soured and McVeigh’s 
adolescence was marked by the strife of his parents’ divorce.
       His hatred of bullies from childhood on became a rage as he 
witnessed the overwhelming force of allied troops during his Gulf War 
service and wondered why the United States seemed so unconcerned with 
the impact of the war on regular people. That same revulsion of 
abuses of power sparked his disgust with the assault on separatist 
Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 Waco siege on David 
Koresh and the Branch Davidians — and made him feel retaliation was 
his responsibility.
       “Once you bloody the bully’s nose, and he knows he’s going to 
be punched again, he’s not coming back around,” he told his 
biographers.   
  
 
 
 June 11 — NBC anchor Tom Brokaw reflects on McVeigh’s execution and 
says there is still so much we don’t know about the Oklahoma City 
bomber. 
 


         Yet he couldn’t see, even at the end, how his treacherous 
act was the ultimate in bullying. Even Randy Weaver, who lost his 
wife and child in Ruby Ridge and told the Washington Post McVeigh was 
just “trying to make a point,” distanced himself from the 
heartlessness of the Oklahoma City blast. In a nasty jag of irony, 
McVeigh’s intended message about the government was all but lost amid 
the sheer horror of what he wrought.
       
A HARDENED WORLD VIEW
       As he said he would, McVeigh ended up offering as a final 
statement Henley’s “Invictus.” Like Henley, McVeigh was a staunch 
agnostic. But Henley wrote the poem as a triumph over his 
tuberculosis and personal anguish. 
       Even as he admitted regret in letters just a day before his 
death, he maintained the hard thoughts he so often associated with 
the military he loved, then came to loathe. “It’s understood going in 
what the human toll will be,” he wrote.
       He insisted he had no fear of death. He said he 
would “improvise, adapt and overcome” if it turned out that there was 
an afterlife.
       “If I am going to hell,” he wrote, “I’m gonna have a lot of 
company.”
       
       NBC News’ Pete Williams and John Baiata; and The Associated 
Press contributed to this report.
 


-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

http://www.msnbc.com/news/557581.asp

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

If you want to contiue to delude yourself to ease your mind.... fine, go ahead and believe that this circus was justice.... From listining to the whining and hand wringing coming from oklahoma, it is very plain to anyone with a brain to see this was vengance, nothing more. Justice means the book is closed, everyone who pontificated today says the book will never be closed. With mcveigh dead for over 12 hours now, I have yet to hear a single case of any one of the 168 dead bursting outta their graves, have you??? and what is the crap of 168 plus 3 unborn?????? Tell me mister justice, how many unborn are lost every day in this country due to abortions??? How many *unborns* were aborted just today?? Somehow, the three lost in OKC are more important to you than the lives lost everyday?? good grief youu are one sick mother fucker! CAN WE SAY H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E???? I rest my case.

-- Anonymous, June 12, 2001

Hey Queenie, what outcome could show "justice"?

-- Anonymous, June 12, 2001

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