At 11:43 AM -0700 6/3/97, Paul Bradley wrote:
Whether McVeigh himself did it or not is questionable, I believe he did, this is just a gut feeling, no jury should have convicted him on the pathetic collection of circumstantial evidence presented.
Count me as one who believes the evidence was overwhelming. Unlike the OJ trial, which I found myself drawn into on a daily basis, I ignored this whole thing as much as possible (not for ideological reasons...it just didn't seem interesting to me). From what I did hear of it, the evidence that he did it was positively convincing. I've said I could understand McVeigh's motives, not that I think he was right in doing it, and not that I think he should escape punishment or be shown mercy. There are big differences in all of these issues. I don't see the McVeigh issue as one where we need to get into a pissing contest. He blew up the building, he got caught, he got convicted, and now he'll spend another $15 million of our money appealing his conviction for the next several or more years. Time to move on. What I think we can mostly all agree on are the civil liberties issues involved in the aftermath of the OKC case, the Atlanta bombing, and the TWA explosion. The demands for travel documents, the calls for limits on bomb-making instructions, etc. These are clearly unconstitutional if required by the government. (The airlines claim the FAA is requiring traveller identity. Maybe yes, maybe no. The airlines are profitting from the requirement, for the reasons we've discussed here before. Any extension to further "position escrow" (which is what I call the increasing requirements that citizen-units report their identities when travelling) would, as I understand the Constitution, violate various freedoms to move about with government interference.) These are the serious issues. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."