Surratt Courier

[J. Beckert]

(07-06-2016 12:45 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(07-06-2016 11:32 AM)Rick Smith Wrote:  The article regarding McVeigh being a Booth devotee seemed to be equating McVeigh's actions with Booth's.

McVeigh indiscriminately murdered hundreds of people, including women and children.

Booth focused on 3 specific targets.

I think the point of the McVeigh article was to indicate how frustration with governmental actions (either by one person or a "ruling" group) can lead to such destructive reactions.

I think you're right, but a clear distinction should be observed between the two. If McVeigh was a devotee, he grossly perverted Booth's meaning of "Sic Semper", which was directed towards those he felt responsible for mess the country was in. McVeigh killed civilians and innocent children, as we all know. I think the Booth we've studied would condemn the OC attack as the act of a coward.