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McVeigh shows no mercy in Letter
Amsterdam, Sunday, May 06, 2001 23:26:41 Timothy McVeigh explains in one of his last letters to The Guardian that he shows no remorse. With the Oklahoma bombing he wanted to stop the "increasingly militaristic and violent" federal control policies.
May 16 is the day of McVeigh's execution at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. He bombed in 1995 a federal building in which 168 people died.
McVeigh wrote:
"I chose to bomb a federal building because such an action served more purposes than other options. Foremost the bombing was a retaliatory strike; a counter attack for the cumulative raids (and subsequent violence and damage) that federal agents had participated in over the preceding years (including, but not limited to, Waco). From the formation of such units as the FBI's Hostage Rescue and other assault teams amongst federal agencies during the 80s, culminating in the Waco incident, federal actions grew increasingly militaristic and violent, to the point where at Waco, our government - like the Chinese - was deploying tanks against its own citizens."
American senior writer Gore Vidal thinks of attending the execution of Timothy McVeigh. "The boy has a sense of justice,'' Vidal said. "That's what attracted me to him.''
"Do I approve of it?'' Vidal asked of the bombing. "Of course I don't.''
But the 75-year-old writer said he and McVeigh, 33, have similar views about the erosion of constitutional rights and about the federal government's 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, that left 80 people dead.
The full McVeigh letter in the Guardian Sunday May 6, 2001 || Yahoo! McVeigh full coverage || THE WAR AT HOME
by Gore Vidal November 1998 || Novelist To Attend McVeigh Execution Yahoo! may 5.
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