Political ideas carried along by any force of reason are a lot harder to kill than murderers. And the best way to gain disciples for bad political ideas is for the government to tell us those ideas are something we should not hear. I have a feeling that we shall be hearing McVeigh's ideas after his killing, whether we want to or not. We must never devalue the radical act. Blacks in Cincinnati quit too soon, but it is hard to civilly disobey in a society in which your every act of vandalism, let alone an act of mass murder, is on camera.
Blacks have little political power mainly because so many of their political beliefs are wrong.
Blacks want bigger and bigger government but never thought that big government would shoot them in the back or get so big that they couldn't do anything about getting shot in the back. People like that sometimes decide that they have to hurt somebody to call attention to a real problem. Larry Webster, a Pikeville lawyer, writes a weekly satire column, Red Dog, for the Appalachian News-Express. E-mail this story to a friend. All rights reserved.