Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people by placing a bomb in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma in 1995
Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people by placing a bomb in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma in 1995.
He sought revenge against the federal government for its handling of the 1993 Waco siege, which ended in the deaths of 86 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against the federal government.
I once read that when before his execution he was allowed to write down a final Statement, he wrote down only the poem ‚invictus‘ by Henley. This is:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Given what he has done, I find this very disturbing Continue reading


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