-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Maybe it is just me, but I think the whole McVeigh trial issues aren't about whether he did or didn't do it. it's important, but my concerns are more about the process the government used to prove it's case. It's built this huge circumstantial case, sprinkled liberally with weeping mothers and children, added with a couple of witnesses who would probably say anything to avoid execution. None of it actually proved he DID it, just that it was possible. When a person can be convicted by sympathy, twisted circumstantial evidence, and testimony given under threat of execution, you have to wonder about the _process_ in this country, and th idea of trial by an impartial body. In my gut, I think he probably did do it, but I cannot see how the prosecutors proved it beyond a "reasonable doubt". Considering the testimony that is going to be allowed for the penalty phase, I cannot forsee any verdict other than death. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 2.2 iQCVAwUBM5W4wzokqlyVGmCFAQGM1AP+L5BQeDMfXr0RQjlASHCzb0pG6oxoMbKN Lx+m2Uqttb8KGeGZcKPQpHsAAnCln/dQS9Ra0ITeLe793FZjI+pQxTo2JImwGaVJ M8toWFsWXODlke6u32Kqaj9t8meoeCPkM1BGymFC+bHEt1Nq9rEVn7Xq6Grf/C6l Hp8dU/OOC7g= =+ocg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Robert A. Hayden hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu __ -=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- \/_ http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden/Welcome.html \/