[LEMONS] 6.11.2001
To: Stunninglingus@yahoogroups.com
From: Hampton
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:47:16 -0400
Subject: stunninglingus- OKcitybomber
So is anyone glad McVeigh is dead? Sad? Sorry? Indifferent?
I'm theoretically against the death penalty, but I found it hard to get all worked up on this one. If we've already covered this ignoreme.
To: stunninglingus@yahoogroups.com
From: Mat Honan
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:29:18 -0700
Subject: Re: stunninglingus- OKcitybomber
A bit of trivia: The only news story that has ever made me cry was the coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. I was living with Steve at the time, and I came in from work to see all of that horror on the screen.
I'm very against the death penalty. but I too was hard pressed to get worked up about this one. I wasn't out there on the street with my "stop the execution of Timothy McVeigh But I did think it was wrong to kill McVeigh. wrong, wrong, wrong. And I also, quite frankly, think Timothy McVeigh, not Mumia, should be the poster boy for the anti-death penalty movement.
I think if you're against it, you have to always be against it. Even when it's someone like McVeigh. It's easy to oppose the death penalty when it's some poor schmoe who has been rammed through the Texas justice system, but McVeigh makes it difficult. Which is, I think, a good thing.
I think executions are abhorrent. The last vestige of 19th century society in America. But we need people like McVeigh to be executed to remind us why we are against the death penalty on its most basic level: no human being has the right to take the life of another. Ape shall not kill ape. Thou shalt not kill: 3 religions, same message. If you can't be against the execution of McVeigh, you aren't against the death penalty; just the way it's applied.
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