CDR: Re: McVeigh, Freedom Fighter or Kook?

[David Honig]

At 11:05 AM 9/13/00 -0400, No User wrote:
>Ray said:
>
>> Mcveigh, as he is, is just a random crazy.  But if, say, one 
>> out of ten American Citizens or so had looked up from the news 
>> story and gone, "It's about time somebody started fighting those 
>> bastards" then he'd have a constituency to whom he could be a 
>> freedom fighter.  And also a nonzero chance of causing real 
>> change.   
>
>    And just what is it that makes you think that "one out of ten" 
>didn't secretly cheer that news? Or maybe more? And even if it were
>only "one out a thousand", isn't that a significant number? Even in
>the First American Revolution, not that many actually took up arms.
>Many were totally against it, and fought for the Brits. If one in
>a thousand took up arms today against the fedz, wouldn't that out-
>number the US military?
>

Even worse, it makes morality a function of pollsters.