-Caveat Lector- Unanswered Questions About McVeigh
With the second anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing now behind us, and the trial of Timothy McVeigh coming up, there are still many troubling questions that remain unanswered about this whole terrible happening. If the mainstream press was anything other than a puppet of the government and big business, reporters would be asking some tough questions. But instead, most of the press is busy painting McVeigh as a "loaner who loved guns" and who "became disenchanted with the Army and became a drifter". (If these features were capable of driving ex-GIs to become mad bombers, the Oklahoma bombing would have hardly been noticed in the aftermath of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars.) Of course we're also hearing lots of anti-militia propaganda as well. On April 19th, reporters roamed the countryside like vultures, hoping for some carnage to bring to us on the evening news. Nothing happened so it became necessary to manufacture the terrorism of the day. We saw reports about how federal workers were too terrorized to go to their jobs; one reporter on the evening news even told us that there had been one "militia-style robbery of a post office" somewhere in the US (I forget where). I have not yet figured out what a "militia-style robbery" is since as far as I can recall the militias haven't been robbing enough Post Offices to create any discernible MO. But who am I to question the mainstream reporters? Oh, yes, almost forgot. There was even a report about how computers on the Internet should be considered "weapons of mass destruction." I'm not making this up - though I wish I were. According to the "experts" interviewed, those dreaded Neo-Nazis and militias in the country were busy hiring hackers to crack the codes of big city computers and shut down power grids, phone lines, and the like. Somehow this would cause the cities to melt down - things became a bit vague at that point. Assuming that the Internet were connected to these computers which is doubtful, most undoubtedly are protected with firewalls to keep anyone from monkeying with them. But don't tell the news reporters - it would spoil the sensationalism. It is nice to know that Congress can start work toward banning computers once they round up all those dreaded firearms. This would all be humorous if it weren't for the deaths in Oklahoma City and the damage being done by poorly reasoned laws and sensational reporting. In the meantime, the hard questions aren't being asked. If McVeigh was involved in the bombing (and that's a big "if" in my mind), his tie-in to the military does raise some interesting possibilities that the mainstream press appears to be doing its best to hide. In my mind, these possibilities come the closest to explaining what might have happened in Oklahoma City. The party line is that McVeigh became angry or disenchanted with the US Army after failing to make the Special Forces. In fact, those who were with him in the Army claim that McVeigh regularly made long hikes with 100-pound packs and was in superior condition. They cast doubt on the idea that McVeigh would have had any trouble meeting the physical demands needed to get into special forces (as he claimed to friends and family). So what happened during the tests? Why did he fail to make the grade? And why did he suddenly decide not to re-enlist in the middle of what appeared to be a promising career that he was enjoying? There is one possibility that fits with what we know. Most people don't realize that US special forces, US military intelligence, and the CIA are all closely connected with personnel being shared on a regular basis. While they are separate entities on paper, they come close to being one and the same thing in many operations (at least from the time of the Vietnam War and most likely before that). During the 1960s, US Army Intelligence created extensive files on American citizens; they also recruited operatives that worked in the US to spy on citizens. We've since learned that these individuals were often recruited from special forces. Technically such operations by the CIA and US Army were made illegal in the aftermath of the Nixon Watergate problems and the Vietnam War fiasco. However, as we've seen with the Iran-Contra Operation and other odds and ends, sometimes the rules are bent in order to permit those in charge to do what they want. And there are certainly other government agencies that have taken the lead from the CIA and recruit operatives from the US military. Now the question that begs to be answered: Was McVeigh actually working for some agency in the US Government? His sister, before being silenced by the Justice Department and no longer covered by the press, claimed that her brother was doing just that, though she was unable to name an agency (but speculated it might have been the BATF). Since McVeigh did attend gun shows, sell firearms, and make a lot of contacts with groups the government was undoubtedly worried about, he could not have positioned himself better for such a job. If McVeigh was working for the government, he might also have been part of a team. He might even have been used by agents in the team to help carry out the actual bombing in Oklahoma City. Now the "easy out" is to blame BATF or some other agency for the bombing. But there might have been more to the "plot" than this. It is just as possible that McVeigh and the others working with him were trying to "smoke out" a potential terrorist by pretending to help him. Perhaps this plan got out of hand with the end result that they helped the terrorist a bit too much. If McVeigh was part of a government team or working with people he thought were fellow bombers but were actual government agents, this might also explain both who the missing John Doe #2 was working for and why he was able to suddenly vanish from the face of the earth - and the memories of my Justice Department officials and much of the press. Ryder Trucks just happen to be the rental truck of choice used by government agencies; the agency who rented the truck found at the scene of the crime in Oklahoma City, claims that not one but two trucks were rented to McVeigh and his friends. Apparently this second truck doesn't fit into the current case against McVeigh and therefore has been ignored by the Justice Department. "Hoppy" Heidelberg is the gentleman who was thrown off the Grand Jury charged with the task of evaluating the evidence of the Oklahoma City bombing. Shortly after being removed from the jury, Heidelberg gave an interview to Jubilee Magazine. During that interview he said, "I think they know who John Doe #2 is, and they are protecting him." The "they" in his statement is our government. Heidelberg went on to say, "This is because John Doe #2 is either a government agent or informant and they can't afford for that to get out." So was McVeigh a "patsy" who didn't know what was going on? Was he mislead or helped by government agents including John Doe #2? I don't know and don't have access to the documents that would reveal the answers to this. But I have little doubt that the answers are there to be found. And the folks in Congress and the mainstream press would be digging up the answers if they were serious about the truth. There are other questions that need to be answered: Why did the Oklahoma City bomb squad appear on the scene before the explosion? Why did BATF agents decide it wasn't a good day to be at work? Why did workers at the scene of the explosion claim to have found and disarmed other bombs? Why did seismic records show two explosions rather than one (with later "tests" showing there should have been three or four "spikes" showing up instead of two)? These are the tough questions that need to be answered if we're to lay the mystery of the Oklahoma City bombing behind us. It's interesting to see who has benefited from the bombing and who has not. The current administration used the bombing to recover from the Waco killings (which now are conveniently minimized since the dates of the two events being the same). The anti-gun, anti-Constitution, and anti-militia forces in the government and press have had a field day with the bombing, even though guns, Constitutional rights, and the militias were not in any way related to what had happened. I hope that our government wasn't involved in this bombing. And I hope that if rogue agents were involved, our government will do something besides try to cover up the fact and continue to blame those who weren't responsible for this hideous crime. (For a detailed look at other "oddities" to the Oklahoma City Bombing case, see David Hoffman's excellent article about this subject.) http://www.prairienet.org/guns/dlgs/gun12.htm#mcveigh <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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