I recently watched Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror, the Netflix documentary about the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 innocents (including 19 helpless children in a day care center). The cowardly terrorist attack by Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices was timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the conflagration in Waco, which some anti-government extremists regarded as an act of war against innocent civilians. Detonating a crude but effective truck bomb made out of agricultural fertilizer and diesel fuel—similar to the one depicted in the far-right tract The Turner Diaries–was McVeigh’s idea of “retribution.” McVeigh, who was executed in 2001, never expressed remorse for his actions.
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