Remember Timothy McVeigh? He was one of the men (besides Terry Nichols) who was responsible for the 'truck bombing' of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19th, 1995. On June 11th, 2001, McVeigh became the first person to be exectuted by the US Federal government by lethal injection.
I don't really know why he did it, but nevertheless, I don't think he should have been executed. Timothy McVeigh has stayed in my head, and every now and then I find myself thinking about him. It makes me sad that this is how our world deals with people like Timothy McVeigh. See, I think that every single one of us could have become like him, given the same circumstances, (whatever exactly they were). Considering the chaotic, stressful, crazy lives many of us live, and the way the governments always seem to suppress and ignore the people who most need to be heard, I'm surprised this doesnt happen more often...and it has been. People like Timothy McVeigh, while responsible for his own decisions, and could have chosen to act differently, the fact that we have people who get so sad and angry and FRUSTRATED is a problem with society. I think that is Mr McVeigh felt like he was understood, and that people were listening to him, that the bombing perhaps would never haven taken place. I realize that's oversimplifying things, but when it comes down to it, we ALL feel frustrated about something. Myself, I choose to let out my generalized rage in other areas.
Instead of writing a will or statement before his death, Timothy McVeigh instead wrote this; a copy of William Henley's poem "Invictus" which I have always loved.
I don't really know why he did it, but nevertheless, I don't think he should have been executed. Timothy McVeigh has stayed in my head, and every now and then I find myself thinking about him. It makes me sad that this is how our world deals with people like Timothy McVeigh. See, I think that every single one of us could have become like him, given the same circumstances, (whatever exactly they were). Considering the chaotic, stressful, crazy lives many of us live, and the way the governments always seem to suppress and ignore the people who most need to be heard, I'm surprised this doesnt happen more often...and it has been. People like Timothy McVeigh, while responsible for his own decisions, and could have chosen to act differently, the fact that we have people who get so sad and angry and FRUSTRATED is a problem with society. I think that is Mr McVeigh felt like he was understood, and that people were listening to him, that the bombing perhaps would never haven taken place. I realize that's oversimplifying things, but when it comes down to it, we ALL feel frustrated about something. Myself, I choose to let out my generalized rage in other areas.
Instead of writing a will or statement before his death, Timothy McVeigh instead wrote this; a copy of William Henley's poem "Invictus" which I have always loved.
- Out of the night that covers me,
- Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
- I thank whatever gods may be
- For my unconquerable soul.
- In the fell clutch of circumstance
- I have not winced nor cried aloud.
- Under the bludgeonings of chance
- My head is bloody, but unbowed.
- Beyond this place of wrath and tears
- Looms but the horror of the shade,
- And yet the menace of the years
- Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
- It matters not how strait the gate,
- How charged with punishments the scroll,
- I am the master of my fate;
- I am the captain of my soul.
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