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Old 07-19-2013, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin View Post
Not really where the area of domestic terrorism is concerned. It's a weird thing. I know several people in my local legal community who worked on the defense of Terry Nichols or Tim McVeigh from the OKC bombings. While I know nothing about McVeigh, I've heard Nichols is just the nicest, coolest guy around, except he helped pull a Ryder truck up next to a federal building and killed 168 people, including 19 children.

It's important for the public discussion because we tend to think of these terrorist types as "others," and we don't humanize them.
This has already been a Law & Order Criminal Intent episode. Just saying.

http://www.tv.com/shows/law-order-cr...ilgrim-205535/

I'm not refuting anything you're saying, just refuting the concept that RS is doing anything new and/or shocking and/or essential to public discourse that hasn't been done before.
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