Ray From Cleveland
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- Aug 16, 2015
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I disagree about McVeigh.
I think he was stupid and a screw up, but he sacrificed himself for what he believed in, and there is some truth to his point of view, which is that the federal government has illegally grown into a monster.
The BATF, DEA, TSA, and many federal government departments are totally illegal and should not exist at all.
If he could have found symbolic ways of drawing attention to that without harming innocent people, then he would have been a patriot.
Nor does the word "terrorist" mean anything anymore, since anyone who intimidates with forces is actually a terrorist.
That include the police when whey incarcerate bank robbers for 20 years in order to deter others from robbing banks.
The reality is that if we want the word to have a negative connotation, then we have to only use the word when the victims are innocent. And then the US military becomes the greatest terrorists in the world, since most of the people they attack are innocent, like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, etc.
A terrorist is defined as one who uses shock and fear to persuade politics. McVeigh was a terrorist by definition. A police officer doesn't send anybody away for 20 years. The job of a police officer is to enforce the laws created by people we elected to write those laws and penalties. There is no terrorism by having laws and penalties. It's actually the American way. The penalties are as such to deter others from also breaking our laws.