The massacre at Mt Carmel is no more or less political than the one in OKC.
There is no evidence at all of any child abuse at Mt Carmel, apart from Koresh's marriages, some of which were to girls younger than the legal age in Texas (no, I don't know how young the youngest was, but if they were of an age that would not have raised our great-grandparets' eyebrows then I cannot be outraged).
McVeigh was a criminal who received the appropriate penalty for his crime. I don't see how his choice of reading material is relevant. He was certainly not a good person; nor was John Brown. The fact remains that he was outraged by a terrible crime, and perhaps if more people had been outraged by it, if something had been done about it in the two years after it happened, he might not have taken their revenge into his own hands.
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Date: 2005-04-19 08:38 pm (UTC)There is no evidence at all of any child abuse at Mt Carmel, apart from Koresh's marriages, some of which were to girls younger than the legal age in Texas (no, I don't know how young the youngest was, but if they were of an age that would not have raised our great-grandparets' eyebrows then I cannot be outraged).
McVeigh was a criminal who received the appropriate penalty for his crime. I don't see how his choice of reading material is relevant. He was certainly not a good person; nor was John Brown. The fact remains that he was outraged by a terrible crime, and perhaps if more people had been outraged by it, if something had been done about it in the two years after it happened, he might not have taken their revenge into his own hands.