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