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QueerDuck

(1,809 posts) Thu Apr 16, 2026, 05:46 AM 4 hrs ago

Sic Semper Tyrannis!

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Sic Semper Tyrannis! (Original Post) QueerDuck 4 hrs ago OP

HCR has some great comments on that today (the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination) TheRickles 1 hr ago #1

Heather Cox Richardson: Timothy McVeigh was wearing a shirt with that quote when captured. erronis 1 hr ago #2

TheRickles

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1. HCR has some great comments on that today (the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination)

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 08:44 AM

1 hr ago

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-15-2026-wednesday

erronis

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2. Heather Cox Richardson: Timothy McVeigh was wearing a shirt with that quote when captured.

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:17 AM

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-15-2026-wednesday

An excellent article and history lesson, as always.

Former Army gunner Timothy McVeigh wrote to a newspaper in 1992, saying: "Taxes are a joke. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement.... Is a Civil War Imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that. But it might.". Three years later, McVeigh set off a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people, including nineteen children younger than six, and wounding more than 800 others. When captured, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the words "Sic Semper Tyrannis."

(I just noticed that TheRickles post the same before me. Can never have too much!)

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