Timothy Mcveigh: An American Terrorist

McVeigh dropped out of college and joined the army when he was 18 years old. He felt that the government had no reason to kill several people at Waco or Ruby Ridge. This is when he decided to take care of the situation himself, and decided to blow up a building and murder countless people. He believed that people learn traits from the government and he felt that the government were not higher up that the people of the United States. It's an "equal" country, so shouldn't everyone be "equal?" I agree with his rational for this, but his actions definitely spoke louder than his words.

Timothy McVeigh blew up the Municipal building on April 19th 1995. America had started to finally settle down from the Waco incident which happened just two years prior. On this tragic day, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 men, women, and children, who were mostly government workers. This would be the end for McVeigh, as he declared he was the sole bomber in this case. It's said to be the greatest massacre of Americans by an American since that of the federal government deciding to take out the compound of a Seventh - day Adventist cult.

McVeigh apparently picked April 19th for the bombing because it was the anniversary day of that of Waco. He said it was retaliation. Timothy McVeigh was only one man, who inflicted his evil plan on 168 people that day. He ended so many innocent lives for the pure fact of being immoral. McVeigh stated he did not have any enemies.

He goes on to strike with retribution against the government due to the events leading up to and causing the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents. Because of these two incidents, it became the symbol of federal domination and murder. McVeigh went to war alone, and ended up killing more innocent by standers than the Feds executed at Waco. McVeigh had to of known what he was doing when he blew up that building in Oklahoma City, he knew the government was there, and he hated them. This act of violence was driven from pure hatred.

McVeigh remained silent throughout his trail. When they sentenced McVeigh for the death penalty, the court had asked him if he would like to say anything. He in fact did, he went on to say, "I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead 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.'" And that was the end of Timothy McVeigh as we know it.

Timothy McVeigh believed that the Branch Davidian compound originated in the Murrah building and that was his whole intentions to destroy the building. He also had a love for guns, bombs, and anything that did great damage. He liked the idea of being