Timothy McVeigh

[Andy A.]

Why are we so worried about punishing this guy?

Ok, maybe he's a little off the deep end and beyond therapy, I'll give you that. But why not listen to him? His views arn't unique, and he obviously belived them. Thing is, The US is very unpopular right now, both at home and globably. We should at least try to understand why.

For Tim McVeigh, to be a warrior in a comfortable, commercial, bourgeois culture was to be profoundly out of place. So in his mind he started a war. That someone could be unhappy with both the culture and the government of America seems not at all odd to me; I am, frequently. What we should be doing is trying to understand what drove him to do what he did were most people would protest, or imagine this, vote.

But of course we can't now, we killed him. We sat him in a cell for years telling him every day that we were going to kill him, and then we pumped his body full of drugs. Theres nothing humane about killing. It is Cruel. Sadley, its not unuseal at all in this country. I think this we need to learn the diffrence between justice and vengence.

I don't know who said this, and if anyone does please say so:

An eye for an eye leaves the world blind. -?

-Andy