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sheshe2

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Wed Dec 11, 2024, 09:13 PM Dec 11

What happens if we have another Timothy McVeigh protesting.? [View all]

What happens when we take the law into our own hands? What happens when one man becomes the judge, jury and executioner.


McVeigh said he was motivated to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City by the events at Waco and Ruby Ridge, the prime examples of what he saw as a government at war with its citizens. In open court he explained: “I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead [v. United States (1928)] to speak for me. He wrote, ‘Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.'”


https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/timothy-mcveigh-and-the-oklahoma-city-bombing
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