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...would never be. Oh, the silly things we used to worry about before Tuesday. Clinton was ridiculed once upon a time as Mourner in Chief, but in truth he didn't own the office until the tears ran down his cheeks as he comforted the survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing...
...week, "When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently." World War II produced the internment camps for Japanese Americans, a development upheld in 1944 by the Supreme Court but later repudiated. After the bombing at the federal building in Oklahoma City, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was authorized to establish a new court to consider the deportation of suspected alien terrorists, in which cases would be heard without the usual obligation to inform the accused of the evidence against them...
Whatever is built may be seen as a de facto memorial. Says Carol Ross Barney, who designed the new federal building in Oklahoma City to replace the one destroyed in the 1995 bombing: "I don't know if you can build anything that's not a symbol. Every building tells you what people were thinking when they built it." But Oklahoma City erected a separate memorial nearby, and aside from its symbolic presence, says Barney, "there's nothing about the building that specifically commemorates the bombing...
Perhaps New York City will eventually adopt a similar solution: new structures quite unlike the old as well as a separate memorial. Whatever happens, says Hans Butzer, who co-designed Oklahoma City's memorial, it shouldn't happen in a hurry: "One of the things that proved to be so useful for Oklahoma City was the process by which the community tried to make sense of the tragedy. It was open and participatory. While it may be prudent for politicians to make bold statements or shows of courage and strength, it may not be wise in the long...
...rally’s message. In discussing the Bush administration’s warning to countries suspected of harboring terrorists, one speaker raised the example of domestic militia groups and the Ku Klux Klan. “We harbor those people,” he announced, and we harbored Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh—who, coincidentally, was executed last June...