All other rights reserved. Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, individuals who identified themselves with the patriot movement, bombed the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing possibly two hundred men, women, and children. This lends to us the additional supposition that the bombing of the Murrah building was intended as an act of revolution. The deliberate mass murder of innocent people, especially children, cannot be deplored in strong enough language to convey the depravity of the crime. When President Clinton, even before we knew who the accused Oklahoma City bombers were, condemned them as murderous cowards, no sane American could disagree.
American society prizes the individual in a way no previous civilization ever has.
We are a country which prizes justice. For the two years since the Waco fire, American patriots have been demanding an independent prosecution of the Justice Department, FBI, and ATF officials responsible for the invasion of a peaceful church group, their torture for 52 days, and their gassing and cremation. Considering that these same charges were made by Roman officials against the original Christians, and by the Nineteenth-century United States government against the Mormons, it's no wonder that some Christian groups feel that the siege on Waco was an attack on the Davidians' religious practices as much as it was on their armory. Perhaps most ironic of all, on the same day that the American federal government was gassing, and ultimately creating a holocaust for, the Branch Davidians, President Clinton was commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi SS siege on the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. Violence is the bastard child of frustration.