'Terror is still with us': Attorney General Garland returns for Oklahoma City bombing

[Guno צְבִי]

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday returned to the place that has shaped his life in public service, recounting the first horrifying images of the wreckage that once was the Oklahoma City federal building and a confrontation with the evil of domestic terrorism that continues to shadow the nation more than a quarter of a century later.

Nineteen children were among the 168 people killed in the blast when McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb just outside the glass and concrete federal building.

"It is now 26 years since the bombing, and it is as surprising to me as it is to you that I am now the attorney general of the United States," Garland said. "Although many years have passed, the terror perpetrated by people like Timothy McVeigh is still with us."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/te...ocid=Peregrine

[Guno צְבִי]

Timothy McVeigh, meet Anders Behring Breivik.

Those two jihadists—two right-wing reactionaries, two terrorists, two anti-government white supremacists, two Christians—have a lot in common, down to the way the massacres they carried out were first mistaken for the work of Islamists by an American press rich in zealotry of its own. And they have a lot more in common with the fundamentalist politicians and ideologues among us who pretend to have nothing to do with the demons they inspire.

After the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, speculation flew on television news stations about Arab terrorists seen in the vicinity of the federal building. The thought that a home-grown, Midwestern Army veteran of the first Gulf war could possibly murder 168 people, including 19 children at a day care center, seemed as foreign as those Islamic lands that were then inspiring so much of bigotry’s latest American mutant. McVeigh turned out to be as all-American as he could possibly be, with extras. His paradoxical worship of the Second Amendment was the faith that fueled his hatred of a government he felt had betrayed American ideals by enabling what he called “Socialist wannabe slaves.” His idealism of a golden-age white America was the Christian translation of al-Qaeda’s idealized caliphate.

McVeigh and Breivik are bloody reminders that Western culture’s original sin—the presumption of supremacy—is alive and well and clenching many a trigger. It’ll be easy in coming days, as it was in 1995, to categorize the demons as exceptions unrepresentative of their societies. Easy, but false. Norway, like much of Europe, like the United States, is in the grips of a disturbing resurgence of right-wing fanaticism. “The success of populist parties appealing to a sense of lost national identity,” The Times reports, “has brought criticism of minorities, immigrants and in particular Muslims out of the beer halls and Internet chat rooms and into mainstream politics. While the parties themselves generally do not condone violence, some experts say a climate of hatred in the political discourse has encouraged violent individuals.”

Those “Take Back America” bumper stickers share most of their DNA with the same strain of rejectionist white Europeans who think their culture is being bankrupted by Socialism and immigrants.

https://flaglerlive.com/25667/pt-mcveigh-breivik/

[SmarterthanYou]

since we're talking about domestic terrorism.........

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[Jack]

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday returned to the place that has shaped his life in public service, recounting the first horrifying images of the wreckage that once was the Oklahoma City federal building and a confrontation with the evil of domestic terrorism that continues to shadow the nation more than a quarter of a century later.

Nineteen children were among the 168 people killed in the blast when McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb just outside the glass and concrete federal building.

"It is now 26 years since the bombing, and it is as surprising to me as it is to you that I am now the attorney general of the United States," Garland said. "Although many years have passed, the terror perpetrated by people like Timothy McVeigh is still with us."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/te...ocid=Peregrine

If the Government didn't use the "Nixxon No-Knock Law" to attack American Citizens, then use Helicopter Gunships and Battle Tanks to finish off the rest of them, OKC would never have happened.

If it helps, that's what got Breonna Taylor killed. (You might want to pick which side you are on here, Guno)

[Text Drivers are Killers]

The real terror was Waco where bill clinton burned alive 85 americans. Thirty of them kids.

[Jack]

The real terror was Waco where bill clinton burned alive 85 americans. Thirty of them kids.

Don't forget the pregnant woman, TDAK.

[Lightbringer]

That little shitbird Garland playing the terror card for all it's worth.

And guno still is a jewbot.

[no worries]

The real terror was Waco where bill clinton burned alive 85 americans. Thirty of them kids.

No, it wasn't.
Koresh was a religious nut job who fired on ATF agents, then set his own place on fire.
Likely from a meth lab, he made.

[PostmodernProphet]

Those two jihadists—two right-wing reactionaries, two terrorists, two anti-government white supremacists, two Christians—have a lot in common, down to the way the massacres they carried out were first mistaken for the work of Islamists by an American press rich in zealotry of its own. And they have a lot more in common with the fundamentalist politicians and ideologues among us who pretend to have nothing to do with the demons they inspire.

apparently they have one more thing in common.....they are unbelievers painted as Christians by an atheist named guano.......hadn't heard of Brevik before, had to look him up.....
from their wiki articles.....

He was at first described by many in the media as a Christian fundamentalist, Christian terrorist, and nationalist.[83][261][262][263][264][265] He states that the European Union is a project to create "Eurabia"[266][267][268] and describes the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as being authorised by "criminal western European and American leaders".[269] In his writings Breivik states that "the Battle of Vienna in 1683 should be celebrated as the Independence Day for all Western Europeans as it was the beginning of the end for the second Islamic wave of Jihads".[270] The manifesto urges the Hindu nationalists to drive Muslims out of India.[271] It demands the forced deportation of all Muslims from Europe, based on the model of the Beneš decrees.[25][272]

His religious faith has later been described as being Odinism.[38][39] While Breivik was frequently described as a "Christian fundamentalist",[83][273][274][275][276] such assertion was disputed in a number of sources,[277] and Breivik denied it, saying in letters to Norwegian newspaper Dagen that he "is not, and has never been a Christian", and that he thinks there are few things in the world more "pathetic" than "the Jesus-figure and his message".[38] He said he prays and sacrifices to Odin, and identifies his religion as Odinism.[38

In June 2001, a day before the execution, McVeigh wrote a letter to the Buffalo News identifying himself as agnostic.

[PostmodernProphet]

No, it wasn't.
Koresh was a religious nut job who fired on ATF agents, then set his own place on fire.
Likely from a meth lab, he made.

???......you mean the shell fired by the tank Clinton sent started a fire in their meth lab?.....

[PostmodernProphet]

That little shitbird Garland playing the terror card for all it's worth.

And guno still is a jewbot.

isn't Garland supposed to be busy prosecuting America's enemies for tracking mud on the Capital carpet?......

[domer76]

That little shitbird Garland playing the terror card for all it's worth.

And guno still is a jewbot.

Yeah, just ignore it and it will go away.

Fucking clown.

[ThatOwlWoman]

No, it wasn't.
Koresh was a religious nut job who fired on ATF agents, then set his own place on fire.
Likely from a meth lab, he made.

They set the fires themselves, and most of the ppl died from smoke inhalation. Koresh & fellow leaders killed themselves.*

We shouldn't spoil the Reichwing terrorist narrative though, eh?

* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/a...ow-about-waco/

[SmarterthanYou]

No, it wasn't.
Koresh was a religious nut job who fired on ATF agents, then set his own place on fire.
Likely from a meth lab, he made.

[SmarterthanYou]

They set the fires themselves, and most of the ppl died from smoke inhalation. Koresh & fellow leaders killed themselves.*

We shouldn't spoil the Reichwing terrorist narrative though, eh?

* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/a...ow-about-waco/