On this Day in History
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
April 19, 2010 11:57pm CST
As we remember the Oklahoma City Bombing which happened 15 years ago today (April 19, 1995) we should remember also what happened two years before that. That was the massacre at Waco, TX, April 19, 1993. This was on of the incidents cited by Timothy McVeigh as reason for the Oklahoma City Bombing. The other was the Ruby Ridge massacre.
His anger was directed at the Federal Government for what he considered their illegal action in two separate actions. Many of the Militant groups cite these two incidents as the violent over reaction by the government directed at innocent people. In both cases the people who were killed were for the most part innocent and even the crimes of the main subject were not that serious.
President Clinton is over reacting when he tries to draw a comparison between the talk at the TEA Parties with the Action of an extremist who was angered by the violent actions of the government.
The TEA party people are upset with the government policies and have a way to regress their grievances by protesting and voting in a legal election.
1 response
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
20 Apr 10
Waco occurred at a time when the BATF was under threat of having it's funding cut... it was nothing more than a stunt to make Congress think it was relevant and necessary.
It wasn't and isn't.
Ruby Ridge was also politically motivated and a government setup of a decorated veteran and patriot.
Both resulted in the government murder of innocent Americans who were victims of an increasingly out of control government.
Clinton is always overreacting... when the Liberals were protesting Bush... it was called Patriotic Dissent.... now peaceful demonstrations are called terrorist and extremists acts by racist radicals who hate the government and 0bama.
The people making these claims deliberately obfuscate the facts and realities behind the current dissent. The TEA Party is made up of democrats as well as republicans and independents who want the government to abide by the constraints set by the Constitution. They are tired of the out of control spending and government corruption, and they want to stop the wholesale destruction of our Liberty, Freedom, and way of life.
This movement began before 0bama, but really took off after the election.
