This Day in History, 1995: Oklahoma City Bombing

[mabfan]

Ten years ago today, a massive explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. The bomb, contained in a Ryder truck parked outside the front of the building, went off at 9:02 a.m. as people were preparing for the workday. Among the victims of America's worst incident of domestic terrorism were 19 children who were in the daycare center on the first floor of the building.

Timothy McVeigh was arrested for the bombing and convicted in June 1997. On June 11, 2001, McVeigh was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, the first federal death penalty to be carried out since 1963.

May his victims rest in peace.

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

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.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently our opinions on this topic differ. Let's leave it at that.