Monday Is the 15th Anniversary of the OKC Bombing

Wanna really learn something about OKC?

Rule Of Law on 04/15/2010
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First hour and 30 minutes: A re-broadcast of the press conference on the Oklahoma City Bombing held earlier today at the Oklahoma State Capitol, organized by Chris Emery. Absolutely stunning. Final 30 minutes of the show, Randy, Eddie, and Deborah are joined by Chris Emery & James Lane of Radio Free Oklahoma for commentary on the event.

ROL_2010-04-15_128k.mp3
http://mp3.ruleoflawradio.com/A4L/128k/A4L_2010-04-16_128k.mp3

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http://mp3.ruleoflawradio.com/A4L/16k/A4L_2010-04-16_16k.mp3

Sorry if I copy/paste the wrong links before. Here are the correct MP3 links:

Rule Of Law on 04/15/2010

First hour and 30 minutes: A re-broadcast of the press conference on the Oklahoma City Bombing held earlier today at the Oklahoma State Capitol, organized by Chris Emery. Absolutely stunning. Final 30 minutes of the show, Randy, Eddie, and Deborah are joined by Chris Emery & James Lane of Radio Free Oklahoma for commentary on the event.

ROL_2010-04-15_128k.mp3
http://mp3.ruleoflawradio.com/ROL/128k/ROL_2010-04-15_128k.mp3

ROL_2010-04-15_16k.mp3
http://mp3.ruleoflawradio.com/ROL/16k/ROL_2010-04-15_16k.mp3

It will be interesting to see if the F.B.I. is sufficiently intrigued by what Joel Dyer has written to pursue the leads that he has so generously given them.

Thus far, David Hoffman’s The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror is the most thorough of a dozen or two accounts of what did and did not happen on that day in April. Hoffman begins his investigation with retired air-force brigadier general Benton K. Partin’s May 17, 1995, letter delivered to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives: “When I first saw the pictures of the truck-bomb’s asymmetrical damage to the Federal Building, my immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforcing concrete column bases.… For a simplistic blast truck-bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out in the order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A-7 is beyond credulity.” In separate agreement was Samuel Cohen, father of the neutron bomb and formerly of the Manhattan Project, who wrote an Oklahoma state legislator, “It would have been absolutely impossible and against the laws of nature for a truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil … no matter how much was used … to bring the building down.” One would think that McVeigh’s defense lawyer, restlessly looking for a Middle East connection, could certainly have called these acknowledged experts to testify, but a search of Jones’s account of the case, Others Unknown, reveals neither name.

In the March 20, 1996, issue of Strategic Investment newsletter, it was reported that Pentagon analysts tended to agree with General Partin. “A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the Federal building in Oklahoma City last April was caused by five separate bombs.… Sources close to the study say Timothy McVeigh did play a role in the bombing but ‘peripherally,’ as a ‘useful idiot.’” Finally, inevitably—this is wartime, after all—“the multiple bombings have a Middle Eastern ‘signature,’ pointing to either Iraqi or Syrian involvement.”

As it turned out, Partin’s and Cohen’s pro bono efforts to examine the ruins were in vain. Sixteen days after the bombing, the search for victims stopped. In another letter to Congress, Partin stated that the building should not be destroyed until an independent forensic team was brought in to investigate the damage. “It is also easy to cover up crucial evidence as was apparently done in Waco.… Why rush to destroy the evidence?” Trigger words: the Feds demolished the ruins six days later. They offered the same excuse that they had used at Waco, “health hazards.” Partin: “It’s a classic cover-up.”

Partin suspected a Communist plot. Well, nobody’s perfect.

“So what’s the take-away?” was the question often asked by TV producers in the so-called golden age of live television plays. This meant: what is the audience supposed to think when the play is over? The McVeigh story presents us with several take-aways. If McVeigh is simply a “useful idiot,” a tool of what might be a very large conspiracy, involving various homegrown militias working, some think, with Middle Eastern helpers, then the F.B.I.’s refusal to follow up so many promising leads goes quite beyond its ordinary incompetence and smacks of treason. If McVeigh was the unlikely sole mover and begetter of the bombing, then his “inhumane” (the Unabomber’s adjective) destruction of so many lives will have served no purpose at all unless we take it seriously as what it is, a wake-up call to a federal government deeply hated, it would seem, by millions. (Remember that the popular Ronald Reagan always ran against the federal government, though often for the wrong reasons.) Final far-fetched take-away: McVeigh did not make nor deliver nor detonate the bomb but, once arrested on another charge, seized all “glory” for himself and so gave up his life. That’s not a story for W. E. Henley so much as for one of his young men, Rudyard Kipling, author of The Man Who Would Be King.

Finally, the fact that the McVeigh-Nichols scenario makes no sense at all suggests that yet again, we are confronted with a “perfect” crime—thus far.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2001/09/mcveigh200109?curren...

"Iraq, or Syria did it!" hmmmm who does that sound like?