Baby Killers & Collateral Damage

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Apr 25 21:44:07 PDT 2001


***** New York Times 25 April 2001

Victims Not of One Voice on Execution of McVeigh

By SARA RIMER

...The anger of those who favor the execution has intensified in recent weeks with the publication of a new book, "American Terrorist" (Regan Books), in which Mr. McVeigh refuses to express remorse. If he had known there was a day-care center inside the federal building, Mr. McVeigh told the authors, Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, he might have considered switching targets.

"That's a large amount of collateral damage," Mr. McVeigh said, referring to the babies among the 19 children killed by his bomb.

Calvin Moser, a federal worker who lost 35 colleagues in the explosion, was among the group that lobbied for the closed-circuit viewing. "How can you turn around and say collateral damage?" said Mr. Moser, 59, who lost more than half of his hearing in the explosion, and lives with a permanent ringing in his ears. "He's a baby killer."... *****

Irony is that in this society it is OK to call Timothy McVeigh & the like "baby killers," but it is a big ideological no-no to use the same term to refer to the machinery of terror -- the U.S. military & what it protects -- that produced them.

Yoshie



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