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To: one_less who wrote (87398)	6/12/2001 1:16:58 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>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