From another thread......
>>I am fascinated at how anyone can look at McVea getting anything from his execution after the fact<<
Oh, I think his purpose isn't dead or gone with today's execution. He raised the point of how the government can kill with apparent immunity and the press spins everything into a nice tidy snippet and it is forgotten. Then his FBI files are mysteriously misplaced and unavailable to the defense. I would imagine on one of the anniversaries of the bombing or this execution, we will hear his name again and just maybe some of the government agents that were involved at Ruby Ridge and Waco will meet a place worse than Tim.
While I don't think anyone agrees with what Tim did, the underlying cause was right. He just went too far in trying to make his point and just like Lee Oswald, the military gave him the training to do a great job at it. Right or wrong, he was efficient and will be in the history books for eternity achieving the highest kill ratio just as he was trained to do. Not only that but a few more people will watch the FBI and ATF a bit closer from now on so he did win. Better yet, he didn't say anything this morning to give the press a tidy sound bite and now they are scrambling trying to turn it into a positive.
He controlled his own fate, just as he wrote and opened a few eyeballs in the process. The government wanted to sweep all this stuff under the rug but was unable to. No one wants to admit it but he won. He probably regrets he only had one life to give...
How many times have you complained about what the government was doing but wouldn't even put forth the effort to write a letter to your congressman? He saw something he didn't like and did something about it and did a darn good job at raising awareness even if it was the wrong thing to do. He can't be going to any worse a place than Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.
Good Luck,
Lee
When in the military, you realize we do things that no other country would ever get away with. It is good to be the bully and do what you want without repercussions but it doesn't make it any more right, at least not morally. We invade other country's airspace regularly, start wars for business reasons then spin it in the press for moral reasons and the dumbing down of America ensures they buy into it. When it starts to spread to our own civilians however, it tends to stir emotions and emotions can rationalize extreme measures. Tim saw this and reacted in an extreme way and unfortunately for the people in OKC, he was good at his job. If he had done the same in Iraq, Bosnia or some South American Country we don't talk about, we would have pinned a medal on him today instead of ending his life. It is only a matter of how you spin the same story in the press.
Good Luck,
Lee |
