April 19, 1995-the day white supremacist terrorists attacked

[underpants]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23014

The association of McVeigh to the ARA, as well as the group's anti-government sentiment, is also the subject of a soon-to-be-released book by Indiana State University criminologist Mark Hamm, who could not be reached for comment prior to press time.

And, during testimony in his 1997 trial, Aryan Republican Army member Kevin McCarthy, in a question about the "purpose" of the ARA said it existed "to commit terrorist acts against the United States."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/01/national/main602999.shtml
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2004

An Oklahoma newspaper, the Idabel McCurtain Daily Gazette, and a college criminology professor, Mark Hamm, have studied McVeigh's movements extensively and developed timelines showing a white supremacist bank robbery gang was in the same vicinity as McVeigh several times during gaps in the government's official version of events.


Documents that have surfaced since the execution show two separate federal law enforcement agencies had information before the bombing that suggested white supremacists living nearby were considering an attack on government buildings.


Others indicate the FBI and prosecutors ordered the destruction in 1999 of evidence from a bank robbery they once suspected linked McVeigh to the white supremacists.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest/02/12/oklahomacity.attack.ap/

War on homegrown terrorism proceeding with quiet urgency

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.domestic17apr17,1,5123277.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Originally published April 17, 2005

Their work has urgency. Independent groups that monitor extremist activity inside the United States say that while the country has focused since 2001 on the threat from foreign terrorists, domestic operatives like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh have not gone away and, in some ways, are more dangerous than ever.

More broadly, the Southern Poverty Law Center counted 751 active hate groups operating inside the United States in 2003, the most recent year for which figures are available. The FBI last year identified ecological extremism as the top domestic terrorist threat, responsible for more than 1,100 criminal acts and $110 million in damage since the mid-1970s. Mark Pitcavage, director of fact finding for the Anti-Defamation League, said that in the decade since the Oklahoma City bombing, 15 law enforcement officers have been killed by anti-government extremists or white supremacists.

[coloradodem2005]

1. I can't believe that those groups that...

...carried out the Oklahoma City bombing are not put on a watch list like the left-leaning groups are.

[underpants]

2. Let's see was OKC used as an excuse to ignore the Bill of Rights?

Was it used as a means of scaring the public into whatever crazy idea the leadership had?

Was it used to brand all those with the same physical appearance with a broad brush? Were white males rounded up and detained with out due process? Were anti-government extremists and white supremacists?

Was this used as an excuse to directly weaken one specific amendment to the Bill of Rights?

[lectrobyte]

3. No to all of the questions. But we had a leader, not a dictator wannabe,

in 1995.

[underpants]

4. Odd how the two events were handled so differently

huh?