The Legacy of Timothy McVeigh Timothy McVeigh confessed to the murders in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995. He sought to justify his mass murder of innocent people by proclaiming it to be a politically motivated strike against a government that he believed had become tyrannical. He had no right to take the law into his own hands and to commit one of the most infamous crimes in US history. McVeigh, unlike Mooney, derived no support for his action.
Constitutionalists traditionally shun the use of violence and terror as a tactic to further a cause.
Unlike for Mooney, and a long and infamous list of left-wing criminals who followed in his political footsteps, there were no demonstrations, pickets, or organized mobs screaming that McVeigh was framed. Constitutionalists, while understanding McVeigh,s stated principals, considered him to be in violation of those principles, and, as a murderer, supported his execution. When McVeigh bombed the Murrah building he declared War against the government. His stated purpose was that he was unilaterally responding to the horrendous government murders at Waco and Ruby Ridge. These two brutal police actions were a declaration of War by the government against the American people and the Constitution.