[910] in libertarians
Re: OK Frame
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Sun Apr 23 11:30:53 1995
From: theobald@bluebeard.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 11:26:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------'s message [OK Frame] as of Apr 22, 15:32
To: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <sybok@MIT.EDU>,
libertarians@MIT.EDU
| The severity of the crime is independent of who perpetrated it. The group
| with the most to gain from this incident is the government, and thus they
| should be considered prime suspects.
Whether or not the government actually committed or incited the bombing,
it is clear that they are trying to score propaganda points from this tragedy,
with the help of the media. The reports I've seen show a definite pattern.
One article I read quotes the FBI as saying that one of the suspect's
co-workers said he had "extreme right-wing views." The "court documents"
described how, two years ago, he had expressed anger over the government's
Waco slaughter, and how he had said the government shouldn't have done that.
Well, I'll bet a lot of people, including many on this list, share that view.
Are they trying to paint all of us as mad bombers? The article frequently
used terms like "right-wing," "anti-government," and "militias."
Speaking against your theory are the costs that the government will suffer.
Now that the government is a "target," people will try to limit their contact
out of fear. Will people want to rent space in a building occupied by the
feds? Or even do any business there that they can do elsewhere? In Des
Moines, parents are removing their children from a daycare center in a federal
building.
Kevin
