Originally posted by 1776:
This has been all over the media today. Why is it we have a desperate need to know that he was remorseful???
My thoughts:
The explosion shocked people in the U.S. since they lived with the fantasy that "it can't happen here"
Just like any event that causes people to be shocked like this (Kennedy, Pearl Harbour, son getting shot,etc.) people have a futile need to feel everything is back to "normal"
Some people hoped he would:
-cry like a baby
-pray to his god
-beg for forgiveness
-fill-in-the-blank
because if he did so, they would feel.. "OK all is right with the world. we said he was bad and he realized he was bad"
or maybe the revenge/retribution thought of
"cry you scum..suffer and beg for your life !"
What people don't like to think is that:
-there are people who don't think like they do
-there are people who will do these things without any remorse since they are doing what they think is right.
McVeigh said he prefered to die instead of spend life in prison.
Had they done this...He would have suffered more mentally and he would have faded from the limelight eventually.
Instead he was executed with all the surrounding worldwide media and public frenzy.
The stupidity/irony of this whole thing is:
-he got the route that was prefered by him. (Death is not the ultimate way to suffer)
-His death will not bring any victims back to life and therefore will not help heal the wounds.
(A women who's husband died in the blast said "My closure comes when I join my husband")
-the only benefit for families of victims, as stated by some, is that he won't be able to talk about and spread his "info" about the bombing ever again.
Yet because he was executed in a huge, political, media and public frenzy he will have a bigger legacy and voice then if he had just rotted in a cell into relative obscurity.
