Timothy McVeigh, Reincarnated
Storming of U.S. Capitol is the Final Warning
I remember the day well. April 19, 1995.
I was one month away from graduating. It was just after 10:00 a.m. in Ohio, a windy, spring day, and I was relaxing in the lounge area at the University of Toledo College of Law. Televisions had been installed months earlier in the main gathering room because of the never-ending O.J. Simpson murder trial.
I don’t remember what program was playing on the TV screens the moment it happened, but the news soon broke to interrupt whatever was on. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City had just been bombed.
Tom Brokaw announced that a car bomb had just exploded, killing children and federal employees — destruction and bodies everywhere. I remember the shocking footage. It was to be the single largest domestic terrorist event in my lifetime. Trump’s hero Andrew Jackson, who ordered the slaughter of 186 Native Americans in 1814, where his men bragged about shooting them like dogs, gets credit for the largest domestic terror act in American history in case you were wondering.
While I never imagined at the time it would lead to horrifying destruction and loss of life in Oklahoma, the five years prior had seen a nerve-shaking, massive rise in virulently angry white militia antigovernment groups. It was…
