I chosed the bombing in Oklahoma, that happened in April 19, 1995 on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. This is the second deadliest attack on the U.S. history, being the attack on New York on 2001 the first one.
First, i'm gonna talk about the backround. On April 19, 1993, there was a standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidian Cult (people who believed on apocalypticism, a belief that states that we live on times were apocalyptic prophesies are happening now). The governmend gassed the building, resulting on a major fire that killed around 75 people including children. After the struggle, lots of people blamed the government and the FBI for this tragedy. Timothy McVeigh was one of them.
Planning his revenge, McVeigh enlisted Terry Nichols and several friends that he met on the U.S. army basic training to help him pull his plan. They purchased over 5,000 pounds of fertilizer, that was the fuel for the explosion. They placed the explosives in a Ryder truck parked in the building carrying the whole explosives.
On April 19, 1995, the truck exploded pulverizing the whole north face of the building.
The blast destroyed and damaged around 325 surrounding compounds and destroyed 86 cars ion the area. Around 90 minutes after the incident, a highway patrol stopped Timothy McVeigh by driving without licence plates, and his ties to the bombing were later found. Although Islamic terrorist were blamed at the beginning by the media, the plan was discovered when some of McVeigh's recruits were caught. The explosion killed 168, and more than 800 were injured. Ninety nine people who died worked for the government, 69 did not. 19 of the victims were children. McVeigh was sentenced to recieve a lethal injection, and his friend, Terry Nichols, was sentenced to a life in prison.
I think this wasn't an attack to the U.S. itself, it was towards the government. I don't trust ANY government I know, I sometimes the work burocracy makes isn't that trustable, and when it comes to the U.S. government I start to doubt even more. Expansionism, imperialism, war, oil... United States has its reputation well refuted. I even think, sometimes, they make their own conspirancies and "destroy" their own stuff, so they can go and invade other countries... taking a little more oil on their way back.
well i actually didn't know anything about this attack so its new for me everything! except for the thing that fertilizer, i already knowed that its fuel for explosives :P
ResponderEliminarThe goverment of the US gain a lot of enemies even in their own country, im really not very informed but i think that if they have a lot of enemies and a lot of problems is for something.
Is really sad how innocent people has to pay the consecuences of acts that they don't do. I know that almost everyone that died was for the government but not all the people their was bad or have something to do about earlier problems that happened.
Well, I don´t agree with what you said about this attack being the second deadliest. What about Pearl Harbor, and my topic, the Lusitania were aprox. 1130 persons died.
ResponderEliminarBut what I think is that the governmentr was too nice with their punishment. Each of them should have been sentenced to death or at least a life in prison. I am saying this because you just told what happened to McVeigh and Nichols, but you didn´t mention the others.
Too nice? What about all those soldiers who kill civils in the Middle East? Do they recieve punishment? They even get paid by the government.
ResponderEliminarManuel your post was the best one, i really liked the way you expresed your thinking in the last paragraph, because i really think the same about US, and not just US is like that all the rich countries want more power.
ResponderEliminarSo dont only hate US manuel my friend, hate every country that want to get richer and more powerfull, is not US is all the world manuel.
I don't hate U.S.
ResponderEliminardo I?