Joined in 2023 
82 
63 About this deal
The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For example - forced medication and exposure to toxic gasses during the Gulf War led to long-term nerve damage in thousands of soldiers, not to mention all the Iraqis who were victims of the USA's attack. These included twenty-five year old Charles Whitman who, in August 1966, killed his wife and mother in their home and then commenced a sniping spree from a tower at the University of Texas, killing sixteen people and wounding thirty-two others before being shot and killed by an Austin police officer.
The next year he joined the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans, a right-wing-leaning organization, but surely one perceived as patriotic. As is the case with most pieces of "access" journalism, the book allows McVeigh to present a very specific narrative on the bombing that makes him look like the true mastermind behind the plot.
It's also a narrative that just so happens to coalesce around the government and media's version of events. But his rampage is preceded by lengthy brooding over failure and is carefully planned as a means of deliverance from an unbearable situation. More attracted to the idea of killing Nixon, on April 11 of that year, Bremer traveled to Ottawa, Canada where Nixon was making a public appearance but decided against killing him due to the high level of security there. Do yourself a favor and immerse yourself in the vibrant PAINFULLY DETAILED world Wendy Painting has blessed the world with.
Even if McVeigh didn't care about any other person on Earth besides himself, why did he choose to ruin his own life? A deeply, deeply scary book but absolutely fascinating if you’re into parapolitics and the machinations of the covert state in America. While in the Marines, he was trained as a radar operator, obtained a security clearance, qualified as a sharpshooter and took (but did poorly on) a Russian language exam. Combined with some of the PTSD and violence from that war (the scope of which I never knew - the Gulf War was merely a footnote in American education), it's no wonder how thousands of soldiers came away sick and confused, untrusting and destabilized.
His mother moved often (from Louisiana to Texas to New York) and by the time he graduated high school Oswald had attended 12 different schools. We will likely never know that answer, but Aberration gives that idea a fair and impartial analysis, and in the process leaves you with more questions than you came in with. Rampage" – (verb): a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior; (noun): violent behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
Great Deal 
New Comment