Tonight, the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow will air, for the first time ever, audiotapes of Timothy McVeigh giving his own account of why he detonated a truck filled with explosives in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. It was our country’s most destructive and deadly act of terrorism on U.S. soil prior to September 11. The bombing murdered 168 people, including more than two dozen children under the age of 6. More than 800 people were injured; damage was estimated at $652 million. Yet, McVeigh’s recorded voice, as if speaking from the grave almost nine years after his execution, says, “I feel no shame for it.”
Maddow has said the program is designed to put antigovernment extremism in perspective. “It doesn’t have to lead to violence, but it can and it has,” says Maddow in promotional spots. “We ignore this, our own very recent history of antigovernment violence and the dangers of domestic terrorism, at our peril.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of antigovernment extremist groups spiked from 149 in 2008 to 512 (127 of them militias) in 2009…
Attorney Beth Wilkinson was the prosecutor who argued for the death penalty for McVeigh. “Obviously I am gratified to know he’ll be admitting to what he was convicted of,” says Wilkinson. “That said,” she adds, “I find it disturbing that these tapes will be played at such length, giving him—once again—a platform.” She hopes that the two-hour segment will provide a perspective on extremism, not just McVeigh’s…
#60 At least those people got to exercise their free speech against Bush were not labeled as seditious even if they did talk about killing people as a liberal did.
What a conveniently short memory the wackos have. Actually, when us liberals criticized Dubya we were asked, why do you hate America so much? Why do you love terrorists so much? And that was only the G-rated beginning. You wingnuts and Dubya worshipers hated and feared us.
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Is that it?!?!?! Just straight forward questions from non-Liberals? Huge contrast from the linked video provided showing Liberals at their “best”. The most interesting is the liberal at the end suggesting some people have to be killed.
But yes, the liberal wackos either have a short memory or they have a huge gaping double standard. What the Tea Party people do pales in comparison to what the Liberals have done. Yet the Tea Party gets sooooooooooo much air time?
If any non-Liberal talked about killing someone you guys would play the race card so quick. Wait! I forgot. You guys already have. Bobbo is already making those conclusions based off of sound bites and his partisan viewpoint.
Dvorak and “administrator” — shame on you for constantly ripping on the Tea Partiers. They are Patriots who are the only ones calling our government on its size, waste and corruption. And you want to equate them with militia members who murdered innocents? That is messed up. I am a big fan, Dvorak, but this is a low blow, and a terribly misguided one at that.
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If the Teabaggers really gave a shit about the economy, they’d also be against the war and for financial regulation, among other things. They are really a bunch of loser whiners pissed they can’t run the country into the ground likje Dumya did. Nothing the Right did in the last 8 years gives me any inclination to give them any credence. Losers and whiners, led by Palin, the biggest (and dumbest) quitter and whiner of them all.