Timothy McVeigh's Dreams Are Coming True

[LymphocyteLover]

Timothy McVeigh, the right-wing terrorist who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, cared about one issue above all others: guns. To him, guns were synonymous with freedom, and any government attempt to regulate them meant incipient tyranny.

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Reading Toobin’s book, it’s startling to realize how much McVeigh’s cause has advanced in the decades since his 2001 execution. McVeigh, who was a member of the K.K.K. and harbored a deep resentment of women, hoped that blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building would inspire an army of followers to make war on the government. This didn’t happen immediately, although, as the historian Kathleen Belew has written, there was a wave of militia and white supremacist violence in the bombing’s aftermath. But today, an often-inchoate movement of people who share many of McVeigh’s views is waging what increasingly looks like a low-level insurgency against the rest of us.

Not all mass shootings are ideologically motivated — far from it. But when there is an ideology involved, it’s usually a far-right one. “All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds,” said a February report from the Anti-Defamation League. Sixty percent of these deaths came from two mass shootings, in Buffalo and Colorado Springs.

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It’s hard to think of a historical precedent for a society allowing itself to be terrorized in the way we have. The normalization of both right-wing terrorism and periodic mass shootings by deranged loners is possible only because McVeigh’s views have been mainstreamed.

what a chilling reality

[Blue Owl]

1. In addition to making the AR-15 assault rifle our national gun...

When are the depraved, murder-enabling GOP lunatics gonna make "Timmy McVeigh Day" our next national holiday?

[LymphocyteLover]

4. OMG! but, I'm sure MTG would like to

[Aristus]

2. They're too cowardly to go up against any organization that has tanks, artillery, and bombers.

But they'll shoot children, no problem.

God, what monsters. Just like McVey.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Killing babies is just fine with McVeigh's 'dream' and in their practice.

[BigDemVoter]

5. Good God, I remember that bombing as if it were yesterday.

I don't think I ever did realize McVeigh's obsession with guns, although I certainly should have. What a horrible, horrible person McVeigh was.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. yes, I remember it too

I was working for the Federal government and they erected concrete barriers outside our building to prevent vehicles to get close and set off bombs, as well as other security measures. Of course, it got much much worse after 9/11.

[stuffmatters]

6. Charles Manson's Dreams Coming True too

Mass slaughter to incite race/civil war (Helter Skelter) is textbook for white supremacist terrorism.