What happens if we have another Timothy McVeigh protesting.?

[sheshe2]

What happens when we take the law into our own hands? What happens when one man becomes the judge, jury and executioner.

McVeigh said he was motivated to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City by the events at Waco and Ruby Ridge, the prime examples of what he saw as a government at war with its citizens. In open court he explained: “I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead [v. United States (1928)] to speak for me. He wrote, ‘Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.'”

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/timothy-mcveigh-and-the-oklahoma-city-bombing

[Runningdawg]

1. IDK what happens in that instance, but I know we are about to find out 1-26-25

[Crunchy Frog]

2. False equivalency.

That indiscriminate attack killed over 160 people and killed or wounded an entire daycare center of babies and young children.

I'm not justifying what happened to the healthcare CEO, but it was a carefully targeted killing of a single individual with a clearly defined role in a system that we all agree is there to profit at the expense of other people's lives.

I don't think these kinds of comparisons help in any way.

[sheshe2]

3. Not really.

What if next time they take it a step further?

[Crunchy Frog]

5. If they blow up a building and indiscriminately kill scores of people including children

Then it will be a real equivalency.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Guess we better start working on preventing such things, eh?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Reports claim Luigi considered bombing the hotel, and then decided not to, because it was indiscriminate.