Choose your targets and your reasons carefully, kids
Monday, 19 April 2010
Just thinking to myself a moment ago. Fifteen years ago today McVeigh blew up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Tomorrow is Hitler’s birthday; and my best-friend’s or I’d never have known that fact. I wondered if McVeigh had considered that date. No idea. Maybe he was as oblivious as I should be and was just on whatever schedule his plans forced. Made me think further though.
I suspect his day was chosen carefully. After looking it up I see it was a Wednesday. A day that would maximize casualties. That’s a terrible realization but prompts the opposing question.
What if he’d picked the following Sunday evening and hadn’t killed a single federal employee, janitor, or the daycare full of children he got?
I really think he’d be in prison to this day—never executed—and by about this year, or perhaps a few further out, he’d probably be the biggest American folk hero of the 20th century.
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Re: Choose your targets and your reasons carefully, kids
You never heard of Waco? April 19, 1993? Good grief.
By Brad on 19 April 2010 · 19:38
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Re^2: Choose your targets and your reasons carefully, kids
You never heard of the problem with making assumptions?
I’ve written about it extensively, including this exactly five years ago: Here’s the score. What’s game point? Sometimes it feels like the Internet has absolutely killed literacy and subtlety. Eh, two birds, right?
By A is A on 19 April 2010 · 19:42
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Re: Choose your targets and your reasons carefully, kids
That's an interesting thought. I'll bet you're right about the outcome.
By Vagrant on 20 April 2010 · 06:40
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Lord knows I’d be a fan. No blurriness about righteousness there.
By A is A on 20 April 2010 · 13:14
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