It is no secret that our constitutional protections have been steadily eroded for decades. Police and federal agencies routinely lie, plant evidence, search illegally, and murder innocent citizens. Such tactics were tried, tested and reached their culmination at Philadelphia's MOVE bombing, Ruby Ridge and Waco.
Many people believe they are now being tested in Oklahoma.
President Clinton and Justice Department have been pushing the legislation heavily. McVeigh, the angry misguided loner, it is alleged, conspired with anti-government tax protester Terry Nichols to teach the federal government a lesson in Oklahoma. Yet scant attention was focused on the other suspects. Witnesses also saw him with McVeigh in a store, at a bar, and at the truck rental shop before the bombing. Still others claim to have seen him speeding away from the scene.