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Opinion Roundup

By Steve Hall

There are links to editorials in the Chicago Tribune and New Hampshire's Union Leader, as well as an Illinois OpEd and a Washington state column.Monday's Chicago Tribune carried the editorial, "Voice from death row."In March 2000, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was interviewed in a federal prison for a segment of CBS's "60 Minutes." McVeigh, who had been sentenced to death for blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, had just appealed his conviction and was eager to show that "not everything is true that you've heard about me." McVeigh said his experience in the Gulf War left him disillusioned with his government, and his resentment deepened following clashes at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, in which federal agents acted as "judge, jury and executioner...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).