OK, I know that a lot of people are going to get mad at me about this, and that's fine.
Right now most of America hates Timothy McVeigh and seems releived that his execution has finally happened (if you didn't place it chronologically, it's been six years!). Anyway, if I understand the way America works at least a little, I strongly believe that come a hundred years from now, McVeigh will be remembered not as a villain, but as one of America's great patriots and heros, and quite likely as one of the catalysts in making Americans really aware of the civil war that it's silently fighting. It's probably hard to see that right now for most Americans because it's so close to home. For most people that entirely eliminates any possibility of objectivity.
But try and put it into context — think of modern history's respected revolutionaries and extreme political activists. It's difficult not to see the similarities — what's the difference? Their actions didn't happen on American soil? It's not as if most of them weren't also engaged in terrorist attacks against their own equally corrupt governments. America is built around the concept that goverment sometimes needs to be responded to by military action on the part of it's population. Yes, it sucks that innocent people were killed, no one denies that — but if America had done exactly this on foreign soil, there'd be no questions asked. Well, enough of that… want a pizza?
That is, assuming he's not a CIA patsy… Ah, what do I know about all this anyway, I live in Canada where we blindly trust our government… Hey, we were even OK letting Britain hold on to our constitution until 1982.
Of course I'm already getting IM's saying stuff like “Put yourself in the shoes of a father who had 2 children blown up. There are other ways to fight wars then death.” Hate to break it to you, but war sucks. Children die in wars, civilians die in wars. It's an unavoidable fact. Put yourself in the shoes of the 76 people — including children — savagely murdered by the US government at Waco. You can cry about it all you want, but America is at war, and people will continue to die on local soil for quite some time.
For fuck's sake! How many Japanese children has America killed? And all you can do is gloat patriotically about movies like Pearl Harbor?
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