What I’m referring to more is the likelihood of such a thing happening, from which a cursory search of the accident rate at grade-level crossings seems to have declined precipitously since the 1970’s. I wouldn’t chalk it all up to improved car reliability but I would imagine would at least be a factor.
Oh, they're different in the ways they suck.
Happened to a gfWhat I’m referring to more is the likelihood of such a thing happening, from which a cursory search of the accident rate at grade-level crossings seems to have declined precipitously since the 1970’s. I wouldn’t chalk it all up to improved car reliability but I would imagine would at least be a factor.
The only jarring about the OKC bombing in 1995 was the casualty list. The context was the parallel ring rise of gun culture and the rebirth of the white nationalist movement. Three years earlier at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where a gun nut/white nationalist refused to hand over illegal firearms. It ended after an 11-day standoff with several people died, then came Waco and the Branch Davidians, where nearly 100 people died, again to illegal firearms. Timothy McVeigh, who planted the bomb in OKC, cited both incidents as motivators t r his slaughter if 167 people, including 19 children too young for kindergarten.I agree. I think there was more political violence in the '60s-early '70s than there is today. The Weather Underground disbanded in 1977, but I think you could maybe go all the way up to the MOVE bombing in 1985 as maybe the last "60s-style" act of political violence. Of course the violence around the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War get "above the fold" coverage whenever anyone talks about that era, but if you're queer, you might throw the Stonewall Riots and the White Night Riots after the assassination of Harvey Milk into the mix. Between JFK in 1963 and Milk in 1979, I wonder how many important social and political figures were assassinated?
(In retrospect, the Rodney King riots in 1992 feel to me more like a precursor of the George Floyd demonstrations than it does an extension of the riots of the '60s. The Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber feel disconnected, to me, from any larger movement or moment in history. For me, the Oklahoma City bombing was so jarring in part because it seemed to just come out of nowhere.)
Violence aside, I think the divisions around the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and 2nd-Wave Feminism in the '60s-'70s was at least as polarizing as political & social issues today. My own family had a moment of dissension before I was born - my mother and her father didn't talk for about a year, according to family lore - and I imagine a lot of other people's did, too. I remember Willie Nelson saying in an interview not too long ago, "in the '60s, the major difference between folk music and country music was how you felt about the Vietnam War."
In June 1990, Byerly attempted to use the sawed-off shotgun charge as leverage to get Weaver to act as an informant for his investigation into Aryan Nations.[20]: 13, 22 Weaver refused to become a "snitch", and the ATF filed the gun charges in June 1990.
Ruby Ridge was an entrapment job and assassination of "a little mountain racist's" son, friend, and wife.
Type of person being victim or type of person being “hey I can join this group and get away with murder” or type of person who gets so carried away with their paranoid vision of protecting society but are protected from their crimes of murder, anyway?
i don't see any words but your own being put anywhere.
That guy will continue to take an endowment sponsored paycheck and give his best students Bs for A work when he feels threatened intellectually. But ultimately he will only support the system in its current form.Ha! I would argue the same about a social-koolaid drinker anti government marxist professor
