Please Remember Oklahoma City

[redstatebluegirl]

Today Oklahoma City gathers to run the Memorial Marathon in remembrance of the 168 souls that were lost on April 19, 1995 including 19 children. After all these years it still feels like an open wound to think any human being could drive a truck full of explosives up to a building, park it in front of the day care center full of children and detonate that bomb.

This was home grown. I remember hearing all the "get the towel head" comments and then the shock when we found out the bomber looked like the kid next door. It was frightening and forever changed the way I saw the United States.

We have more people like Tim McVeigh than we had then, they are everywhere, arming themselves, planning overthrow of our great country. We must be forever vigilant.

May the victims rest forever in peace...

[kelliekat44]

1. My spouse missed being in that building at the time by one week thanks to a job transer. It still

weighs heavily on us and we will never forget. Nor will we ever forget the warm people of OKC.

[pipoman]

2. I agree with everything except..

"We have more people like Tim McVeigh than we had then, they are everywhere, arming themselves, planning overthrow of our great country."

I remember this time in history vividly. There had been much talk in Washington about enacting some pretty extreme gun control. The Clinton administration had been calling for all manners of gun control. There was a massive movement all over the country to thwart these ideas. There were small groups of people from coast to coast were gathering as 'militias'. The 'militia movement' was on the news regularly, some were large groups like the "Michigan Militia", who was believed early in the investigation to be associated with McVey.

Shortly after the OKC bombing the Clinton Administration announced an end to their push for more gun legislation and over the coarse of the next year, the militia movement died back down and returned to the tiny amount of people.

No, at that time there were many more radicalized 2nd amendment advocates..

[Flying Squirrel]

12. I think it was more sensationalized in the media back then

But check this out:



http://www.andrewhalcro.com/american_militias_delusional_racist_and_burgeoning

Since Obama was elected they've skyrocketed again, even without the same (at least not until Newtown) effort to restrict gun ownership. It's all been mass hysteria and paranoia on an unprecedented level. Yes, it's much worse than it was in the Clinton years; the only difference is that the mainstream media isn't talking much about it like they were before. Why not? Probably because they are the ones who created this problem by repeating flat-out falsehoods about Obama or refusing to vigorously refute them.

[onehandle]

3. McVeigh was an NRA member, Registered Republican in NY, and virtually lived at gun shows...

Where he developed his 'philosophy.'

[jsr]

4. Recommend

The scale of physical destruction:

Oklahoma City, 1995:


Boston, 2013:

[redstatebluegirl]

5. We did not live here at that point

but friends here have told me you could feel the blast for miles, it was devastating.

[rustydog]

6. 168 adults dead,19 children in a daycare. all deserving of McVeigh's patriotic wrath????

all because McVeigh and Nichols were sooooo upset over Waco and Ruby Ridge that they were COMPELLED to kill their fellow Americans.

America's "Red-blooded" Gawd Bless Amurika freedom-loving goobers are her biggest threat.
"Christian" abortion clinic bombers
the DC sniper
the Unibomber
We still have the gooberized neo-Nazi asswipes in Idaho and other parts of America
how many serial killers do we have in operation on a daily basis?
the latest? Mr. Republican wannabe ricin-mailing moron
How many completely innocent Americans are murdered every single day every year? (this number would dwarf the number of Americans killed by terrorist attacks in the good old USA every single year)

Sorry for the rant, but just the thought of Oklahoma City makes me furious at the incredibly stupidly evil a human being is capable of committing in the name of their (NON MUSLIM) belief.

[datasuspect]

7. i remember when they shut down a section of OKC

and conducted felony arrest/search raids on everyday citizens after that happened.

oh wait, no they didn't.

[Mortos]

8. Timothy McVeigh was caught the same day

There was no need to do a massive manhunt for armed an dangerous subjects on the loose in a very specific area. But I guarantee you if there had been a shootout and more random killings the next day, OKC would have done the same thing as Boston. You obviously don't understand the fear that a random and horrific attack on innocent men, women and children has on people.

And you are wildly exaggerating ne' lying about what happened in Boston, as has been explained by those there over and over again, but you know that.

I was in OKC in 1995 and I called my National Guard unit to volunteer in any way I could. I hope you never have to experience an act of domestic terrorism up close but if you do, your attitude may change.

We will never forget.

[datasuspect]

9. i guess the germans didn't invade pearl harbor either?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. The Germans did not invade Pearl Harbour. That was the Japanese. nt

[pipoman]

13. The Japanese didn't "invade" pearl harbour either..

they bombed it..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Correct.

[Travis_0004]

14. I'm guessing that was a joke (watch the movie animal house)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Sure. Sometimes the best response to a stupid joke is to play it straight.

[Flying Squirrel]

10. .