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Fact: Timothy James McVeigh was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing that occurred on April 19, 1995. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, is considered the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
McVeigh was raised in Western New York State, being born in Pendleton (near Buffalo) and receiving his high school diploma from Starpoint High School in Lockport, New York. McVeigh lived with his father, a devout Roman Catholic who often attended Daily Mass.
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October 1, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to version 77
Right after the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 - the first thing that the American mainstream media did was to point the finger against the Arabs, and for a few days they were dragging Arabs back to the US for questioning. The Arab communities in the US were under attack, were demonized and so onâ¦.
Ups, we made a mistake â it was not an Arab that did the bombing in Oklahoma it was a clean cut American young man from the Buffalo area in New York State â and what did he used as his weapon of mass destruction? Fertilizer, lots of fertilizer.
Letâs see what Americans would have done regarding the Oklahoma bombing if they had overreacted in the same way as they have been overreacting regarding 9/11.
First, they would have attacked the entire area around Buffalo and bombed them from the air into little pieces destroying their infrastructure including electric power, water system and so on â then the Air Force would have dropped the mother of all bombs on all the farms around the Buffalo area to destroy their weapons of mass destruction (the fertilizer that they use for farming)
Since McVeigh and his family was Catholic â in the next step they would have developed some kind of angle to make a connection of his violence in Oklahoma to his religion and after that they would have demonized all Christian religions including Catholics, Protestants, and so onâ¦. Just for the hell of it.
The next step would have been: throw all Christians from that area around Buffalo in prison and start torturing them to find out where they are hiding their fertilizer and also to find out if there were more people such as Tim McVeigh around that area.
The above scenario sounds crazy, stupid, and a bunch of non-sense right?
But, that is exactly what has happened regarding the current Iraq War.
The situation has been so pathetic regarding Iraq that it took almost 5 years for the American mainstream media to figure out that Osama Bin Ladden is a very devoted Suni and Al Qaeda is a Suni organization.
I started making that point on this message board a few months ago and suddenly for the first time I started seeing the American mainstream media making that distinction. A light went on âOsama Bin Ladden is a Suniâ and âAl Qaeda is a Suni organization.â
It seems to me that until recently the American mainstream media had not made that simple connection.
In the example above, by not making that distinction from the beginning it was the equivalent of someone doing some nasty act of terror on behalf of the Catholic religion, and the overreaction been against all sects of the Christian religions.
It would have been a piece of cake to demonize all Christian religions in the same way that the US government and the American mainstream media has been demonizing Islam since 9/11.
Letâs see what we can say about the Catholic Church and violence â The Crusades (about 10 of them) The Inquisition, the war in North Ireland between Catholics and Protestants â The churchâs position regarding slavery over the centuries and so onâ¦
Now, the United States want to start another war this time against Iran, and very soon Iran a Shiite country will become part of Al Qaeda network. I can see Dick Cheney on television saying to the American people that everybody in Iran also belongs to Al Qaeda and they have a direct connection to Osama Bin Ladden's terrorist network.
I can picture Dick Cheney on television trying to really piss off Osama Bin Ladden, by spreading a rumor that Osama Bin Ladden is a "Shiite" when they go on into the next level in trying to start this war against Iran.
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I have only one thing to say to you âVersion 77â if you hate so much the Arabs and you are so in favor of the US government policies regarding the Middle East â In my opinion, you should put your money where you mouth is and you should enlist yourself in the US Army to go and fight in Iraq all these bad people who make you so afraid of them.
Based on your posting I can see that you hate the Arabs, and you are afraid of them because they are going to get you.
Please do something about it. Enlist yourself in the US Army â they need anyone that they can put their hands on to send them to Iraq â and go and fight for what you believe in â unless if you are a coward.
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Fact: Timothy James McVeigh was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing that occurred on April 19, 1995. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, is considered the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
McVeigh was raised in Western New York State, being born in Pendleton (near Buffalo) and receiving his high school diploma from Starpoint High School in Lockport, New York. McVeigh lived with his father, a devout Roman Catholic who often attended Daily Mass.
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October 1, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to version 77
Right after the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 - the first thing that the American mainstream media did was to point the finger against the Arabs, and for a few days they were dragging Arabs back to the US for questioning. The Arab communities in the US were under attack, were demonized and so onâ¦.
Ups, we made a mistake â it was not an Arab that did the bombing in Oklahoma it was a clean cut American young man from the Buffalo area in New York State â and what did he used as his weapon of mass destruction? Fertilizer, lots of fertilizer.
Letâs see what Americans would have done regarding the Oklahoma bombing if they had overreacted in the same way as they have been overreacting regarding 9/11.
First, they would have attacked the entire area around Buffalo and bombed them from the air into little pieces destroying their infrastructure including electric power, water system and so on â then the Air Force would have dropped the mother of all bombs on all the farms around the Buffalo area to destroy their weapons of mass destruction (the fertilizer that they use for farming)
Since McVeigh and his family was Catholic â in the next step they would have developed some kind of angle to make a connection of his violence in Oklahoma to his religion and after that they would have demonized all Christian religions including Catholics, Protestants, and so onâ¦. Just for the hell of it.
The next step would have been: throw all Christians from that area around Buffalo in prison and start torturing them to find out where they are hiding their fertilizer and also to find out if there were more people such as Tim McVeigh around that area.
The above scenario sounds crazy, stupid, and a bunch of non-sense right?
But, that is exactly what has happened regarding the current Iraq War.
The situation has been so pathetic regarding Iraq that it took almost 5 years for the American mainstream media to figure out that Osama Bin Ladden is a very devoted Suni and Al Qaeda is a Suni organization.
I started making that point on this message board a few months ago and suddenly for the first time I started seeing the American mainstream media making that distinction. A light went on âOsama Bin Ladden is a Suniâ and âAl Qaeda is a Suni organization.â
It seems to me that until recently the American mainstream media had not made that simple connection.
In the example above, by not making that distinction from the beginning it was the equivalent of someone doing some nasty act of terror on behalf of the Catholic religion, and the overreaction been against all sects of the Christian religions.
It would have been a piece of cake to demonize all Christian religions in the same way that the US government and the American mainstream media has been demonizing Islam since 9/11.
Letâs see what we can say about the Catholic Church and violence â The Crusades (about 10 of them) The Inquisition, the war in North Ireland between Catholics and Protestants â The churchâs position regarding slavery over the centuries and so onâ¦
Now, the United States want to start another war this time against Iran, and very soon Iran a Shiite country will become part of Al Qaeda network. I can see Dick Cheney on television saying to the American people that everybody in Iran also belongs to Al Qaeda and they have a direct connection to Osama Bin Ladden's terrorist network.
I can picture Dick Cheney on television trying to really piss off Osama Bin Ladden, by spreading a rumor that Osama Bin Ladden is a "Shiite" when they go on into the next level in trying to start this war against Iran.
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I have only one thing to say to you âVersion 77â if you hate so much the Arabs and you are so in favor of the US government policies regarding the Middle East â In my opinion, you should put your money where you mouth is and you should enlist yourself in the US Army to go and fight in Iraq all these bad people who make you so afraid of them.
Based on your posting I can see that you hate the Arabs, and you are afraid of them because they are going to get you.
Please do something about it. Enlist yourself in the US Army â they need anyone that they can put their hands on to send them to Iraq â and go and fight for what you believe in â unless if you are a coward.
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