03-29-2019, 12:53 AM
There have been some very bad GI's -- John Dillinger, Howard Unruh, Ed Gein, Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker... and most seem to be loners in a generation that saw them as outliers. Outside the United States are such contemporaries as...OK, I need not list a bunch of Nazis and Stalinists.
Maybe you forget the worst of all mass killers, Timothy McVeigh, who was X. I remember seeing an interview of him in which he responded to the reality that small innocent children had died when he blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He called such death "collateral damage"! McVeigh had pent-up anger, and he was even arrested wearing a shirt that had an image of Abraham Lincoln, a gun pointed at him, and the words "Sic semper tyrannis". The allusion was to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
It is hard to figure out the murky mind of someone so horrible as McVeigh for what he did.
Maybe you forget the worst of all mass killers, Timothy McVeigh, who was X. I remember seeing an interview of him in which he responded to the reality that small innocent children had died when he blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He called such death "collateral damage"! McVeigh had pent-up anger, and he was even arrested wearing a shirt that had an image of Abraham Lincoln, a gun pointed at him, and the words "Sic semper tyrannis". The allusion was to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
It is hard to figure out the murky mind of someone so horrible as McVeigh for what he did.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.