By Michael Moriarty
Timothy McVeigh's execution by lethal injection was to happen on May 16. Through some bizarre last-minute disclosure of evidence not submitted by the prosecution at trial - over 3,000 pages of it - McVeigh now has a 30-day reprieve.
He claims he doesn't care. He's ready to die for what he did. Between his sentencing and now, he's been helped to proclaim, in a book (American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck) his unbending shamelessness. He appears to be portraying himself and his heinous act as akin to John Brown and that anti-slavery zealot's attack on Harper's Ferry. If that's what he really feels, and I'm not sure what goes on in the mind of a suicidal bomber, he helped the Confederacy win.
Immediately following the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that the terrorism was domestic in origin, President Bill Clinton, after referring to this news as an "improvement," began to blame all outspoken conservatives, such as Rush Limbaugh, for the tragedy. Well, I happen to be a fan of Limbaugh. Because of Clinton's selfish and slanderous exploitation of the Oklahoma City massacre, I decided to leave my country. I'd already had enough of such perverse insinuation from Attorney-General Janet Reno, when she tried to implicate all of television in drive-by shootings. So I left my country and relocated to Canada, never to look back.
Never say never. McVeigh's execution is less than a month away. His arrogance is infuriating and only helpful to the very people he says he battles. He is becoming the new, even more deadly Joseph McCarthy, the egomaniacal albatross the Left has hung around every conservative opinion since the 1950s. I don't want McVeigh going to his death thinking he's the friend, let alone the hero, to anyone. I would like someone to read these words to him, just before he dies. Perhaps they might inject at least some quaver of doubt into his psychotic certainty, some fear that his legacy will go down with Richard Speck's, and not John Brown's.
With their ratings at a record low of 22% and the press calling the President "irrelevant," the Clinton administration must certainly have been praying for a miracle. Well, the devil sent them Timothy McVeigh. Within a week of his capture, the President's approval ratings, along with his Attorney General's, shot up to over 60%. McVeigh's target - the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - which Congress was thinking of disbanding, because of its behavior against the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas -- was reinstated.
The political 'shelf-life' of the Oklahoma City bombing far outweighs even McCarthy's utterly unconstitutional witch trials of Hollywood communists. With McVeigh's battle cry book soon to be out on the stands, there is no limit to the nerve ends in America that the Left can touch with the bare mention of McVeigh's name. On a metaphysical level, I would call McVeigh the world's first American Leftist Suicide Bomber.
So Mr. McVeigh, if you're listening, true conservative Americans hate you even more than your governmental enemies, who benefited greatly from your evil. As for the secrets you will apparently take with you to the grave, tell them to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, whom you'll most likely meet in hell.