Just as bad was a decision by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft that he would not only protect us from the potential danger of free political speech from a genuine radical, but also would deign to regulate our curiosity. All the while, our government is rehearsing human killing, having gotten rusty at the art with no war and all. So the government's trucks are moving, its restraint devices load-tested, its needles sharpened and its tubes sterilized for prevention of disease only. The dosage will be released either by a machine or a person whose personal morals do not surpass those of the machine or of his victim. To teach our children that killing is wrong, we will have the most famous government killing since the old leftists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were whacked, killed by popular demand to shut down the left, which then shut down.
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.