Comments on Advance Indiana™: A Salute To Chris Kennedy

They may all be bombers, but the difference is the...

2010-09-25T21:25:13.317-05:00

They may all be bombers, but the difference is the "right-wing" bombers (even with identical academic credentials), would experience a cold day in hell before making it as far as Ayers got.

I am so glad that this Board unanimously voted dow...

2010-09-25T01:16:39.558-05:00

I am so glad that this Board unanimously voted down emiritus status for Bill Ayers. I mean, come on.

Re the commentary, for an opposing view, check out what David Paul Hammer, his fellow death row inmate at Terre Haute has written, DEADLY SECRETS, TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. He also has a website, and his challenge to his readers is, that we not buy the government spin that the OKC bombing case is closed, but to follow the clues, and find out the truth.

I agree with Gary. The difference is that the peo...

2010-09-24T14:12:24.845-05:00

I agree with Gary.

The difference is that the people who advocated and committed violence in the 1960s were considered and treated as mainstream liberals and praised by the left. The fact that Ayres is still lionized today confirms that fact that many people on the left still don't have a problem with those terrorist acts.

The examples of the right committing terroist acts cited here is nothing more than a few nutjobs out there doing things claiming they are for a conservative cause. They are not part of the conservative mainstream and conservative leaders don't praise those nutjobs.

The people on here who are saying terrorist acts committed by the left in the 1960s is the same as some nutjob conservatives today are comparing apples to oranges.

they are the same are comparing

I'm not giving you a lot of grief... But the ...

2010-09-24T10:16:40.208-05:00

I'm not giving you a lot of grief...

But the fact that you would even ask the question "What government buildings has the right bombed" illustrates the degree to which we all minimize/don't see/rationalize political violence that coincides with our own views.

At the same time, we are quick to call the other side a terrorist. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

The OKC Murrah building bombing was not done by an...

2010-09-24T10:03:04.874-05:00

The OKC Murrah building bombing was not done by anyone that was a part of the far right. The government covered up the ties McVeigh and his co-conpirator, Terry Nichols had to al Quaeda. Circumstantial evidence of these links have been included in a House Internation Relations Committee report from a few years ago:

In his report The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection? International Relations Committee chairman Dana Rohrabacher (R - California), presents evidence suggesting that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols may have been assisted in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by "Middle Easterners" and "a German national living at an extremist compound in eastern Oklahoma."

Rohrabacher's committee presents extensive, "yet in some cases circumstantial," evidence establishing a relationship between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef, the al-Qaeda terrorist convicted of carrying out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "For example, of all the cities in the world, convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef and Terry Nichols were in Cebu City in the Philippines at the same time three months before the Oklahoma City bombing." The report continues to trace the Nichols' suspicious activities and relationships in the Philippines in the years and days leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing.

As the report points out, both the Oklahoma City and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings followed similar patterns, "a rental truck loaded with ammonium-based explosives, using similar detonation devices, based on the strategy of driving a vehicle into or near a target."

Rohrabacher also finds fault with the Justice Department for both its failures in the initial investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing and for what the committee call its current "lack of willingness" to examine the many question raised in the committee's report."

Joe Stack was a lone nut; not part of any right wing organized terrorist group.

Oklahoma City. :(

2010-09-24T09:45:02.633-05:00

Oklahoma City. :(

Ummn... you didn't really ask that question di...

2010-09-24T09:42:16.322-05:00

Ummn... you didn't really ask that question did you?!?

The greatest act of domestic terrorism was the Oklahoma City bombing.

More recently Joe Stack flew a plane into an IRS building after writing a lengthy anti-government manifesto.

And there's a lengthy list of murders, assaults, bombings and arson attacks listed under "anti-abortion violence" under wikipedia.

Those are the things that come to the top of my head without thinking too hard. I'm sure there are others.

And what government buildings has the right been b...

2010-09-24T09:19:59.913-05:00

And what government buildings has the right been bombing?

It's interesting: I don't ever condone bo...

2010-09-24T08:57:28.803-05:00

It's interesting:

I don't ever condone bombings, lethal or otherwise. And I certainly don't condone assassination.

But there is a sense that we are judging what happened in the '60's through today's experiences and values.

It strikes me that the left of that era viewed the government much in the same way that the right does today. Again, no justification for the more extreme acts.