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| Media Link - Newsday | ||||
| Tuesday, 08 May 2001 00:00 | ||||
Writer Gore Vidal is praising Timothy McVeigh for "a sense of justice." How on earth does he justify such a claim? He cites the erosion of constitutional rights in today's society. For example, the attack by the FBI on the Branch Davidians. Vidal also insists McVeigh is very intelligent, and not insane. I'm reminded of my seventh-grade teacher who used to say, "Birds of a feather flock together." Advocates of limited government should not fall for such evil nonsense. Of course our government has gone way beyond its constitutional bounds. But you don't wage war against the government by destroying innocent lives. No honest person could ever reach the conclusion that McVeigh's heart was in the right place. McVeigh is nothing more than an evil malcontent who latched onto legitimate discontent with an ever-growing government as an excuse to be violent. Violence, not ideas of any kind, was his prime motivator. Had he been born a few decades earlier, he probably would have done the same thing -- except with a left-wing rationalization rather than a right-wing one. The colonial American revolutionaries had legitimate complaints against the oppressive British government of their time. Without question, our own federal government today is becoming as oppressive as was the British government of the eighteenth century. Did colonial revolutionaries kill innocent civilians, in the most vicious manner imaginable, in order to make their point? Of course not. Instead, they waged a battle for ideas. Eventually, the rebels took up arms when they had no other choice. But they took up arms against the British military and government, not against innocent bystanders. They fought to defend the rights of individuals, not to sacrifice them. Timothy McVeigh is a case study in evil and insanity. That's no surprise. Evidently Gore Vidal, regarded by many as a serious intellectual, is McVeigh's spiritual equivalent. It's bad enough we have McVeighs to worry about. When they are sanctioned and glorified by our intellectuals, the tragedy is heightened a thousandfold.
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