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Guide to Timothy McVeigh

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Patriot or terrorist? McVeigh? Menachem Begin? Founding Fathers? History has defined a thin line between patriotism and terrorism.   Today's mass murderer has often been tomorrow's patriot.

As I followed the news of the Timothy McVeigh case, I often wondered if he was actually a patriot, or simply a mass murderer.  Or maybe both?  While current political correctness requires us to denounce his acts as crazy, evil, sick and unforgivable, it's clear that history is filled with cases of people who did commit similar devastating acts, and were declared patriots.  Menachem Begin of Israel purposely killed women and children in his fight for a Jewish homeland.  In the United States of America, many of those faithful to the legitimate government, were forced to flee by their revolutionary counterparts, who were not above killing, tarring and feathering those who opposed their anti government sentiment.  These killers, tarrers and featherers are now known as the "founders of our country."  But Begin and many of our founding fathers were mass murderers, at least in the eyes of the legitimate government. Begin, in 1946, was the leader of a terrorist (or patriotic -- you choose your own description) organization, the Irgun, that blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where British women and children were living. Some 90 innocent people were killed.  Yet, Begin is not a terrorist but a patriot -- in the minds of many who condone mass murder done for proper reasons. 

Prominent men, our nation's founding fathers, organized "themselves into the "Sons of Liberty"--secret organizations formed to protest the Stamp Act, often through violent means. From Massachusetts to South Carolina, the act was nullified, and mobs, forcing luckless customs agents to resign their offices, destroyed the hated stamps." Source: http://www.usis.usemb.se/usis/history/chapter3.html

Were the founding fathers, and their mobs, terrorists trying to overthrow the legitimate government or, like McVeigh, men angry at the government who had decided that anti-government violence was proper?  How do we -- in the politically correct atmosphere of the United States at the start of the 21st century -- distinguish between brave people willing to stand up for their believes from terrorists, when both have historically used the same approach, violence against and killing of people associated with the government.

Many mass murderers actually believed that they were doing a great mission for a great reason that most of civilized society could not see. In Timothy McVeigh's case he believed that someone had to respond to the U.S. Governments killing of woman and children, which had occurred exactly two years before his assault on the government building in Oklahoma.   For more information see http://lubbockonline.com/news/060797/mcveigh.htm

In Begin's case he decided he had to drive the British out, and killing innocent wives and children of British government employees was proper. But Begin's organization wanted still more blood and "On July 22, 1946, the Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 soldiers and civilians (British, Arab, and Jewish). On April 9, 1947, a group of Irgun commandos raided the Arab village of Dayr Yasin (modern Kefar Sha'ul), killing all 254 of its inhabitants. For more information on Begin and his organization (were they terrorists, mass murderers or patriots?) see http://www.britannica.com/seo/i/irgun-zvai-leumi/.

Were Begin, McVeigh and America's founding fathers sane people?  Were they acting on evil or nationalistic impulses.  Were they cold blooded murders or freedom fighters?   Are they now doomed to eternal hell fires, or did their causes make them guilt free? Are mass murderers and purveyors of violence always sick and pathetic? Or are they just angry and ready to overthrow those who cause the anger?  Were Israeli and American patriots simply individuals with incredibly low self control or brave people willing to die for their cause?  Do you believe some mass murderers  really have the possession of the "extraordinary wisdom" they claim as they kill or tar and feather or drive women and children from their homes? 

At "The Mass Murder Website" members.fortunecity.com/hiperaktiv/   there is an attempt to unfold the mystery of murderer characteristics, statistics and attempts to analyze the mentality of  "politically incorrect" mass murderers. Read up and see if the politically correct mass murders (patriots) fit the same profile.  Then, answer for yourself -- was McVeigh a patriot, mass murderer or both?   I'd like to hear your opinions at ramann2997@aol.com.

For more on these topics see:

	American Terrorist : Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing -- by Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck; Hardcover Our Price: $20.80
	Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy -- by Stephen Jones, Peter Israel (Contributor); Paperback Our Price: $12.00
	Freedom's End : Conspiracy in Oklahoma -- by James D. Nichols, Robert S. Papovich; Paperback Our Price: $16.95
	Israel in the Begin Era -- by Robert O. Freedman (Editor); Hardcover Our Price: $68.50
	Begin : A Portrait -- by Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Patrick R. Denker (Editor); Paperback Our Price: $19.95
	Patriots : The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A. J. Langguth (Paperback - March 1989) Our Price: $13.60 /

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