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Tragically, we have witnessed in Oklahoma City the logical derivative of the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. Please, people, "the government" isn't the enemy; the government is us. Attacking it attacks all of us. If it doesn't work...
...ways to reduce the scope of government in our lives. For now and the foreseeable future, anyone (of any race, creed, gender or religion) who even brings up these topics will be accused of abetting baby killers. So we can chalk up another victory for the Oklahoma City bombers. In addition to being vicious terrorists and murderers of innocent children, they are mind-bendingly stupid individuals...
...were dissatisfied with the U.S. government. Twenty years later, right-wing extremists blow up a building to protest the government's trying to disarm a religious cult in Waco, Texas. How ironic that the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War fell so close to the bombing in Oklahoma City...
...Islamic head scarves were intimidated; families, mosques and schools got bomb and death threats. This is exactly the kind of extremism that led to this vicious act in the first place. If we rush blindly toward hatred and violence, what separates "us" from "them"? Did all those people in Oklahoma City, those children, die for nothing? There are lessons in this...
Here's the proper punishment for the Oklahoma bombers [COVER, May 1]: spending the rest of their lives viewing images of their victims and hearing the sounds of the anguish and grief they have caused. To punish these criminals by death would be hollow. They must live with what they have done-24 hours a day, 365 days a year...