By David Hoffman
This in-depth research allegedly uncovers terrifying information regarding the tragic Oklahoma urban bombing and means that terrorist acts are utilized by the govt. to extend wiretapping, seek and seizure, and invasive surveillance of personal voters. photographs & illustrations.
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We had contact with the truck driver who was involved in that delivery. " Tri-state… is an explosives carrier. "We've talked to the driver," said Hall. "We've talked to two drivers. '" Then Hall dropped another bombshell. "We also know that the ATF had a magazine inside the building, which was illegal. But the floor was blown out of that magazine. "[94] While several other unexploded bombs were pulled out of the wreckage, none were widely mentioned. One such bomb was a 2 X 2 foot box marked "High Explosives" which had a timer on it.
The author — much more of a "trouble maker" in his formative years than Timothy McVeigh — personally remembers his own interest in guns, and even military armor. Like motorcycles, fast cars or other macho symbols, such interests pass as one matures. Yet federal authorities, with the backing of the corporate-owned media, attempted to make this a cornerstone of their psuedo-psychological case against McVeigh. He was "obsessed with guns," ergo, he is a mad bomber. I doubt if all the gun enthusiasts in the country would be pleased to know they are, by association, being implicated as mad bombers.
Yet apparently Tim was not the young blood-thirsty adventurer the media made him out to be. " McVeigh was later able to indulge in his interests in firearms as a security guard for Burke Armored, where he worked for a year or so in 1987. Jeff Camp, McVeigh's coworker, noted that he had a keen interest in guns, although he didn't find it unusual since most full-time security guards and law enforcement personnel owned an assortment of firearms, he said. One story eagerly circulated amongst the press is that McVeigh showed up at Burke one day with a huge Desert Eagle pistol and bandoleers slung in an "X" across his chest.