Domestic terrorism's re-emergence feared

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/11418097.htm

A decade after the Oklahoma City bombing killed her two young grandsons and 166 other people, Jannie Coverdale worries that Americans may be forgetting the lessons learned in the nation's worst act of terrorism from within.

"The bombing here wasn't the end. It was just the beginning," said Coverdale, whose grandsons were among the 19 children killed in the April 19, 1995, blast at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

"We have too many government-hating racists running around this country," Coverdale said. "Sure, something else is going to happen. Unless we're very careful."

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the day Timothy McVeigh rode into Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck packed with an explosive mixture of diesel fuel and fertilizer. He parked it at the front steps of the Murrah building, just under a day-care center where Coverdale's grandchildren and others were beginning their morning play. snip

A year ago in East Texas, William Krar told a federal judge that he was not a terrorist. He did not explain why he had stockpiled in a Tyler-area shed a half-million rounds of ammunition and enough sodium cyanide to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.

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[tigereye]

1. that kind of violence

done by anyone, here or abroad, is totally disturbing to me. I truly wish McVeigh had been kept alive and made to look at faces of those he killed, every day for the rest of his life. :(

[liberalhistorian]

7. The problem with that is that McVeigh truly did

not give a damn about anyone he'd killed, not even the children in the day care center. He called them, especially the children, "collateral damage" and had the nerve to blame the government instead of himself for their deaths. He was shown pictures many times of those he'd ruthlessly murdered, and he never gave a shit. I think he was totally beyond any kind of caring at all.

Funny, he was angry about the dead Iraqi children he saw during the Persion Gulf War and all of the dead at Waco, TX, in '93, but he couldn't have cared less about innocent children and adults he so willfully, purposefully murdered. I'm totally against the death penalty, even for him, but I'm sure as hell not shedding any tears for him.

[Coastie for Truth]

2. I think between the "Rapture Right"

(as in Eric Rudolph and Randall Terry), and the armies of unemployed (that will accompany our slide over "Peak Oil" and our descent into even more outsourcing and off-shoring and Wal-Martizing) we will see deeper division then we had during the Great Depression -- and concomitantly more violence.

Check out the Bonus Army March on Washington in 1932 -- http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm

And the DeLay-Frist-Cornyn calls for division will only make things worse.

If you think the 1964-68 urban riots were bad - you ain't seen nothing yet.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I tend to agree.

Only this time, the reasons won't be overtly racial. Nor will it be left-right, for the most part. It will be haves and have-nots.

[blogbear]

4. and understandably so..

[jwirr]

5. I would rather see rioters

who are in the open than hidden terrorists that I do not know about until it is too late.

[Coastie for Truth]

6. I don't think we will have a choice

I was doing some volunteer work for an NGO last month - and I saw how fast a totally false "rumor" could spread through a group of disoriented people (recently homeless people in a "Mass Shelter" after a general alarm fire in their apartment complex).

And, my parents were Young Adults during the Great Depression -- and I heard their stories (both of their homes had been the victims of Cross Burnings by the KKK - and they were white, "white foreigners") and of the collapse of social services in major cities, and masses of homeless.

[ancient_nomad]

8. Ditto...BINGO!! n/t