Your rage at McVeigh and the unfathomable act he committed is more than understandable and I feel the same. I don't want to argue the death penalty thing either, 'cause I don't think there is an answer. Usually, with maniacs who torture and kill, I have the same reaction that you have submitted, ie Let's take out the garbage...they're defective, beyond returning to the human race etc...
Well the tears for McVeigh, was kind of a metaphor. It was really tears for children, anywhere, but especially here in America. What makes one set of innocent little hands go one way , or the other, seems beyond our control..yet, is it? Can we "nip in the bud", so to speak? Not just Moms and Dads, but our society; our culture? Did this very nation produce a Tim McVeigh and people like him, or at least give a helping hand in his evolution? I read an article recently in the Washington Post online, for which I whope to send you a link sometime...very enlightening, and frightening. Just a few twists and turns in the road in the life of an otherwise unremarkable working class kid, and the alienation necessary to even bring him to anti-societal thinking is all too evident. From the article, it didn't sound like there was a lotta huggin' and kissin' in the McVeigh family. Just think about how many more kids just like him are in your neighborhood and mine..right now.
Will they all blow up buildings and kill people? I hope not, but some will, and maybe some will do a whole lot more. Getting rid of the garbage is one view. Why don't we stop generating it..or can we? I don't know.
The sadness sprung from an in-the-moment feeling. Here was this beautiful sunny day with the gorgeous ocean; the men, women, and children so happy...and it's Tim's last day; he will never know this again (if he ever did), nor will the innocents he killed. All terribly unnecessary and sad. That is all.
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Your rage at McVeigh and the unfathomable act he committed is more than understandable and I feel the same. I don't want to argue the death penalty thing either, 'cause I don't think there is an answer. Usually, with maniacs who torture and kill, I have the same reaction that you have submitted, ie Let's take out the garbage...they're defective, beyond returning to the human race etc...
Well the tears for McVeigh, was kind of a metaphor. It was really tears for children, anywhere, but especially here in America. What makes one set of innocent little hands go one way , or the other, seems beyond our control..yet, is it? Can we "nip in the bud", so to speak? Not just Moms and Dads, but our society; our culture? Did this very nation produce a Tim McVeigh and people like him, or at least give a helping hand in his evolution? I read an article recently in the Washington Post online, for which I whope to send you a link sometime...very enlightening, and frightening. Just a few twists and turns in the road in the life of an otherwise unremarkable working class kid, and the alienation necessary to even bring him to anti-societal thinking is all too evident. From the article, it didn't sound like there was a lotta huggin' and kissin' in the McVeigh family. Just think about how many more kids just like him are in your neighborhood and mine..right now.
Will they all blow up buildings and kill people? I hope not, but some will, and maybe some will do a whole lot more. Getting rid of the garbage is one view. Why don't we stop generating it..or can we? I don't know.
The sadness sprung from an in-the-moment feeling. Here was this beautiful sunny day with the gorgeous ocean; the men, women, and children so happy...and it's Tim's last day; he will never know this again (if he ever did), nor will the innocents he killed. All terribly unnecessary and sad. That is all.
Well the tears for McVeigh, was kind of a metaphor. It was really tears for children, anywhere, but especially here in America. What makes one set of innocent little hands go one way , or the other, seems beyond our control..yet, is it? Can we "nip in the bud", so to speak? Not just Moms and Dads, but our society; our culture? Did this very nation produce a Tim McVeigh and people like him, or at least give a helping hand in his evolution? I read an article recently in the Washington Post online, for which I whope to send you a link sometime...very enlightening, and frightening. Just a few twists and turns in the road in the life of an otherwise unremarkable working class kid, and the alienation necessary to even bring him to anti-societal thinking is all too evident. From the article, it didn't sound like there was a lotta huggin' and kissin' in the McVeigh family. Just think about how many more kids just like him are in your neighborhood and mine..right now.
Will they all blow up buildings and kill people? I hope not, but some will, and maybe some will do a whole lot more. Getting rid of the garbage is one view. Why don't we stop generating it..or can we? I don't know.
The sadness sprung from an in-the-moment feeling. Here was this beautiful sunny day with the gorgeous ocean; the men, women, and children so happy...and it's Tim's last day; he will never know this again (if he ever did), nor will the innocents he killed. All terribly unnecessary and sad. That is all.
