Timothy McVeigh's decision process.

 and independent American terrorist.

Observations:

Just saw the special on MSNBC.

Poorly done. They miss Tims point
completely.

Tim was very clear he was applying his military training

to what he considered a combat situation.

I want to make it clear from the onset I have no

sympathy or reservations about Tim being

wrong and an terrorist, but I am going to 

look at this through his eyes, looking to get a 

handle insights on domestic terrorism.

The training Tim was talking about was

army doctrine. 

When you don't have rules of engagement

you look at what the enemy is doing and

take the lead from them.

And Tim had come to view the Government

as the enemy. 

How and why I'm not going to examine here.

But the collateral damage at Ruby Ridge

and Waco , the dead children and women

he did not view as collateral deaths but

as murder.

The trigger seems to be the American 

Government, power, killing innocents,

Americans.

And in his mind turned this into

his guideline or rules of engagement.

He views the dead children at Murrah Building 

the same as the dead children

burned at the Waco Siege.

The one group of dead children

some how balanced out the

other group of dead children,

in his mind.

Quid pro Quo.

He is very clear about his motives

and activating factors.

He was sending a message to

the American Government,

with a body count.

His paradigm would point

to the importance of not

having any collateral damage

in any American operations

against Americans in reference
to American generated terrorist.

There doesn't seem to be any

problem in the killing of principals.

It is a risk they assume when they

take on America as an enemy.

And there doesn't seem to be

any vengeance associated with

killing active participants.

Vengeance seems to be associated

with collateral damage.

In the case of McVeigh.

I differentiate this type of terrorism

from work place mass murders,

that is more associated with 

disassociation. 

Where by someone becomes 

so disassociate from society

they view it as alien from themselves

and strike out in anger.

They feel society has struck out

against them unfairly, illegally

and they feel they have no recourse

except violence.


In Tim's case the Government
nor society had taken any actions
directly against Tim.

The air plane into the Federal Income

Tax building recently, may be a good

example of Disassociation. Or other 
examples of going Postal.

Tim's paradigm points to the critical

element in American Ops on Americans,

that there be NO collateral damages/ deaths.
To prevent American generated terrorist.

I suspect that the American Somalia 

youths going to Somalia to fight for

al Qaeda cult has adopted this flavor

of Tim's terrorism.

They are brain washed into believing

in American caused collateral deaths

associated with "their people" is motivation
for joining the al Qaeda cult.

And I'm sure this has a counter point

in Afpak and terrorist recruiting also.

Collateral deaths equals effective Info War

propaganda for recruiting terrorists.

Tim said the score board
was 168 to 1, if the Government
killed him.


He viewed this as a win.

And he had to get caught to

send his full message.

Gerald

Anthropologist

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