"Our goal is for a peaceful solution, not for violence. "-- In the early morning of April 19, 1993, in Waco, Texas, federal law enforcement officer Curtis (not his real name) nervously stared at the mountain villa in front of him.
In the past 50 days of armed confrontation, four comrades-in-arms have been killed, and the pressure of the confrontation is physically and mentally exhausting. Despite all the measures they put under pressure on the building, including power cuts, bright lights at night and **high decibels**, rabbit screams, there was no sign of surrender on the other side.
However, they were convinced that a peaceful solution was the best option, so they did not shoot.
The silence in Waco Valley was broken by the roar of two combat engineering vehicles, a rare scene of the United States' use of heavy inward use since MacArthur used tank force against salaried veterans in 1932.
Curtis looked at the two combat engineering vehicles and understood that things were about to escalate. The assault officially began, and at six o'clock in the morning, two combat engineering vehicles were in position and began to chisel through the walls and fire tear gas into the house.
The loudspeaker on board shouted the order to "surrender", and after six rounds of tear gas were fired, the huge combat engineering vehicle began to ram with force, the walls of the building were knocked down, and a corner of the roof was torn off.
However, no one came out to respond. Suddenly, a fire broke out inside the building, and the flames lit up half of the sky, making people shudder.
They have to pay!McVeigh is a firm believer in the deliberate femicide of women and children by the Federation, and he is determined to make his position known to more people and achieve his "justice."
As a beautiful ** person who has fought on the battlefield, McVer is particularly skilled in the skill of 'killing'. The original plan was to destroy a federal building, but during the decision-making process, he realized that this alone was not enough to show his resolve, and he wanted to make a bigger impact.
Eventually, he settled on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which houses 14 federal agencies, including the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Social Security Administration, as well as the U.S. Army and Marine Corps recruiting offices. ”
McVeigh chose this building for two reasons, firstly, its glass doors and floor-to-ceiling windows are designed to shatter under the impact of bombs, creating enormous destructive power.
Second, the open parking lot next to the building can absorb and spread a portion of the power of **, protecting people in nearby non-federal buildings. At the same time, McVeigh believes that the open space around the building is ideal for taking pictures, which can enhance the publicity of the event.
He chose to carry out the attack on April 19, 1995, which was both the second anniversary of Waco** and the 220th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
However, his actions led to the tragedy of 168 dead and more than 680 injured.
Timothy McVeigh said of the cost of the bomb's raw materials: "It costs $250 to rent a truck, about $250 or $500 for fertilizer, and nitromethane is quite expensive and can cost $1,500.
Actually, let me do the math, $900, $2700 ......Ah, that should be $3500 ...... totalThen we add up all the costs, which is about $5,000. ”
As a military man with war experience and awards, McVeigh is no stranger to ***. On September 30, 1994, he and his comrade-in-arms Nichols purchased 40 bales of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, each weighing 22., at the Kansas State Cooperative68 kg.
In October 1994, McVeigh, posing as a motorcycle racer, obtained three barrels of nitromethane, about 208 per barrel, on the pretext that he and some of his fellow racers needed fuel2 liters.
McVeigh and Nichols steal explosives, build bombs, test their power, and plan to detonate them in the desert. To increase their power, they use the Monroe effect, leaving behind a "j" symbol.
Now, they only need $5,000 to complete the plan.
Convinced that his actions were motivated by a higher purpose, McVeigh believed that his actions were like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and although they were lethal, they were for the sake of justice.
In the early morning of April 19, 1995, he drove a truck to the Merah Federal Building, carrying a copy of Turner's Diary. This book tells the story of a white supremacist who sparks a revolution by using a truck bomb to blow up the FBI headquarters at 9:15 a.m.
He wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the Virginia slogan "Down with the ** Monarch Forever" and Thomas Jefferson's famous quote "The Tree of Liberty Must Always Be Watered with the Blood of Patriots and Warriors."
Inside his envelope was a letter with another famous quote from Thomas Jefferson: "When ** fears the people, there is freedom; When the people are afraid, it is **".
He wrote below: "Maybe from now on, there will be freedom!".There is also a handwritten copy of John Locke's quote that claims that man has the right to kill those who have taken away his freedom.
When the clock struck 9 o'clock and most of the employees were in place, a mixture of ammonium nitrate, nitromethane and diesel fuel was in the north of the building**, and the huge power was instantly formed.91 meter wide, 24 meters deep crater.
As McVeigh expected, it spread across 16 blocks, destroying 324 buildings and shattering glass in 258 neighboring buildings. Broken glass is responsible for 5% of deaths, and 69% of those injured are also due to flying glass shards.
This ** shocked the perceiver 89 kilometers away, causing a strong vibration and sound. The scale of the Richter scale caused a loss of nearly $700 million.
"In the military, you learn how to deal with killing, and you have to learn to accept it," McVeigh said. The rewritten copy maintains the core idea of the original text, converts some technical terms into easy-to-understand language, and describes the impact of ** in detail.
At the same time, McVeigh's introduction was rewritten to make it more in line with Chinese language habits.
* The incident killed 168 people and injured more than 680, including three pregnant women and 19 children, the youngest being just 3 months old. McVeigh** then justified his actions in ** that led to the death of children in ** with the following statement: "These rules of engagement in a conflict were not made by me, but by the aggressor, although they were not explicitly written."
Such an act is cruel and unscrupulous. And the tragedy of Waco City also stems from the cause of **. ”
McVeigh** has enjoyed the most luxurious task force treatment in the United States since the assassination of Kennedy**. Nearly 900 federal investigators, criminologists, the National Guard, and police officers surrounded him to investigate and try him.
Finally, on June 2, 1997, McVeigh was sentenced to death, pleading guilty to all 11 counts of ** and conspiracy.
For the first time since 1963, the U.S. federal ** executes death sentences for death row inmates. On June 11, McVeint died by injection at the age of 33. Before the execution, he only ordered a mint chocolate ice cream and invited a ** family to play a requiem for him.
He seemed to hope for peace on the road to hell. Oklahoma City** was the worst act of "terrorism" in the United States before 911.