Word: mcveigh
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...last presidential election. He carried a sign saying, "It Is Time to Water the Tree of Liberty," a reference to Thomas Jefferson's quote that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh famously wore a T shirt bearing the Jefferson quote. Kostric said he took the gun to the event to protect himself and to assert his Second Amendment right. "If you don't exercise your rights," he said, "you will lose them." (See pictures of health-care protesters on LIFE.com...
...might think that federal buildings that house the Department of Justice or members of Congress would have decent security. Government facilities, after all, have proved to be tempting targets for both international terrorists (such as those who attacked the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001) and domestic assailants like Timothy McVeigh, who bombed Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. But security at the government buildings guarded by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) is almost comically inept, according to a disturbing report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Over the past year, undercover investigators visited 10 supposedly high...
...company don't seem to have had any contact with more highly skilled international terrorism groups, that should not diminish the seriousness of the plot, says Carafano. "Oftentimes, it's the amateurs who are more likely to do harm - people who are more lucky than good," he says. "Timothy McVeigh didn't train in an al-Qaeda camp, after...
...Cure-esque mope-rock.McVeigh often harps on simplified clichés about the inextricable link between love and death, though he does deliver his elementary lyrical content with a reserved aplomb that salvages a handful of good tunes. Gifted with an eerie and reverberating baritone reminiscent of Ian Curtis, McVeigh has an uncanny knack for delivering the most vacuous lyrics with commendable seriousness and brooding passion. The title track, while arguably the strongest song on the album and the one with the most commercial appeal, sounds at times like the pubescent diary entries of a lovesick and paranoid teenager...
...starting to enter into the slide," says Buck McVeigh, who runs Wyoming's Economic Analysis Division. "In recessions, Wyoming tends to lag behind, but we're seeing it now." Everybody...