To begin with, the great danger of terrorism today is the stigmata of the 21st century…
People have always looked for righteousness in their lives. All of them are sure to have their own vision of happiness, good life, justice. However, sometimes their standpoints are deeply different.
Here is the problem of misunderstanding between them. People keep leading the same way of life and they remain different, they have different views on the world around them: for some people the world is beautiful and practically perfect, for others it is it is wrong and bad overwhelmed with injustice. As a result people want to change the current situation in the world through the modification of the contemporary world. Unfortunately, some people intend to change the world but their purpose may be ruinous and dangerous. Such people make others suffer greatly. They are cruel. They hate authorities and the official power. They think the world is guilty in all their misfortunes and they want to revenge. As a result they can commit terrible crimes, trying to make people to be afraid of life. They try to destroy the stability of mankind with the help of terror. Sometimes they fight for their own religious ideals… They imagine they are the arms of God to punish and to change the world. Their ill psyche – not their motherland or compatriots - are sure to be the main problem. That’s why the way to get rid of fear, to save our world from the darkness of terrorism is not the distribution of cruelty and war. We must learn to struggle not with nations but with the dangerous elements of society.
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On April 19, 1995, a homemade bomb destroyed utterly the Federal building in Oklahoma City. As a result, 168 people were killed, among which there were build-employers, who worked there, and 19 children under the age of five, who were on the second floor in the daycare center. This tragedy was a great shock for the US and the world, the lives of many people were either ruined or dramatically changed.
After an exhaustive search, the FBI identified Timothy McVeigh as the person who planned and realized this terrible plan. It was him who droved the van with the bomb, and it is him who set it to explode when a significant number of people were in the Federal building. Anger at the government drove him, and he lost his faith in justice. He even did not know those people who were killed by the blast her organized.
In June 1997 McVeigh was found guilty of the terrible crime committed in Oklahoma. Among the witnesses in the trial were people who suffered from the attack, including relatives of those who were killed. All were angry and deeply hurt. Many demanded a capital execution for McVeigh, but there were also those who thought that this measure was unacceptable and he should keep living.
The testimonies of the victims’ relatives were published. They differ dramatically, as these two following testimonies:
“… There was nothing arbitrary about McVeigh’s conscious decision to do what he did. He chose to park the truck, put in his earplugs and walk off. When he did that, he took away the rights of 168 people to ever make decisions of their own again. My brother and the others can’t elect to work, or play, or spend time with their families. So I don’t want McVeigh to have the freedom to even get a drink of water in his cell. If those 168 victims cannot make the most basic of chooses, why should he? McVeigh has to pay for the choice he made on April, 19, 1995 – and he has to pay with his life.”(D. Firth, “Case study: Timothy McVeigh”)
“Most people believe Timothy McVeigh should be put to death. I certainly understand their anger: my daughter Julie, a Spanish-language translator who worked for the Social Security Administration at the Murrah buildings, lost her life in the bombing. I am filled with rage at McVeigh. But I don’t think he should be executed… Lock him up for good, with no chance to get out. Is that punishment enough? The part of me that is still screaming ‘kill him’ does not think so.
Nevertheless, my Catholicism teaches that even he has a soul, we must at least try to save him – and even try to forgive him. I am still too angry to deal with that now. But I’ll have to be forgiving if I am to have peace. That would be harder if he is executed. I don’t want McVeigh’s death on my head…”.(D. Firth, “Case study: Timothy McVeigh”)
In a week after testimonies were promulgated, McVeigh had got the capital execution via lethal injection.
This crime is evidence of the dual nature of terrorism. On the one hand, there is a criminal that opposes to the society, which unwillingly becomes a victim of the murderer, who denies justice and view it in this particular way that leads to suffering of many people.
Timothy McVeigh felt the injustice. The terror attack was a chance for him to prove that he worth anything in the world, to become famous. It was a source of power for him. And eventually, he wanted to become a judge. So he committed his crime and killed 168 innocent people. This blast didn’t kill his fear; instead, the lives of many people were destroyed. It is noteworthy that he realized that his view on justice was wrong and he violated all moral norms of humanity when he committed the crime.
Nowadays, the main goal of the administrative judge is to prevent such crimes and stop terrorism in the world.
Naturally, a lot of time has passed, and the society and surrounding world have changed dramatically, but human nature remained unchanged, and they behave as their ancestors used to and their descendants will probably do. The basic moral norms and stereotypes remain the same: good and evil, fight and evil. Moreover, it is very important that people will keep it protected.
Gandhi believed that the politics of passive resistance nonviolence should be effective anywhere and at any time, including the resistance to force as malign as Nazi Germany. He was sure “a simple life in a simple society” without wars, hate and pain would be the most fabulous result of human evolution.
To finish with, I can’t but say that our future is in our hands. As long as people remember it, they will have the goal in their life and will believe that it will be good.
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On April 19, 1995, a homemade bomb destroyed utterly the Federal building in Oklahoma City. As a result, 168 people were killed, among which there were build-employers, who worked there, and 19 children under the age of five, who were on the second floor in the daycare center. This tragedy was a great shock for the US and the world, the lives of many people were either ruined or dramatically changed.
After an exhaustive search, the FBI identified Timothy McVeigh as the person who planned and realized this terrible plan. It was him who droved the van with the bomb, and it is him who set it to explode when a significant number of people were in the Federal building. Anger at the government drove him, and he lost his faith in justice. He even did not know those people who were killed by the blast her organized.
In June 1997 McVeigh was found guilty of the terrible crime committed in Oklahoma. Among the witnesses in the trial were people who suffered from the attack, including relatives of those who were killed. All were angry and deeply hurt. Many demanded a capital execution for McVeigh, but there were also those who thought that this measure was unacceptable and he should keep living.
The testimonies of the victims’ relatives were published. They differ dramatically, as these two following testimonies:
“… There was nothing arbitrary about McVeigh’s conscious decision to do what he did. He chose to park the truck, put in his earplugs and walk off. When he did that, he took away the rights of 168 people to ever make decisions of their own again. My brother and the others can’t elect to work, or play, or spend time with their families. So I don’t want McVeigh to have the freedom to even get a drink of water in his cell. If those 168 victims cannot make the most basic of chooses, why should he? McVeigh has to pay for the choice he made on April, 19, 1995 – and he has to pay with his life.”(D. Firth, “Case study: Timothy McVeigh”)
“Most people believe Timothy McVeigh should be put to death. I certainly understand their anger: my daughter Julie, a Spanish-language translator who worked for the Social Security Administration at the Murrah buildings, lost her life in the bombing. I am filled with rage at McVeigh. But I don’t think he should be executed… Lock him up for good, with no chance to get out. Is that punishment enough? The part of me that is still screaming ‘kill him’ does not think so.
Nevertheless, my Catholicism teaches that even he has a soul, we must at least try to save him – and even try to forgive him. I am still too angry to deal with that now. But I’ll have to be forgiving if I am to have peace. That would be harder if he is executed. I don’t want McVeigh’s death on my head…”.(D. Firth, “Case study: Timothy McVeigh”)
In a week after testimonies were promulgated, McVeigh had got the capital execution via lethal injection.
This crime is evidence of the dual nature of terrorism. On the one hand, there is a criminal that opposes to the society, which unwillingly becomes a victim of the murderer, who denies justice and view it in this particular way that leads to suffering of many people.
Timothy McVeigh felt the injustice. The terror attack was a chance for him to prove that he worth anything in the world, to become famous. It was a source of power for him. And eventually, he wanted to become a judge. So he committed his crime and killed 168 innocent people. This blast didn’t kill his fear; instead, the lives of many people were destroyed. It is noteworthy that he realized that his view on justice was wrong and he violated all moral norms of humanity when he committed the crime.
Nowadays, the main goal of the administrative judge is to prevent such crimes and stop terrorism in the world.
Naturally, a lot of time has passed, and the society and surrounding world have changed dramatically, but human nature remained unchanged, and they behave as their ancestors used to and their descendants will probably do. The basic moral norms and stereotypes remain the same: good and evil, fight and evil. Moreover, it is very important that people will keep it protected.
Gandhi believed that the politics of passive resistance nonviolence should be effective anywhere and at any time, including the resistance to force as malign as Nazi Germany. He was sure “a simple life in a simple society” without wars, hate and pain would be the most fabulous result of human evolution.
To finish with, I can’t but say that our future is in our hands. As long as people remember it, they will have the goal in their life and will believe that it will be good.
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References:
“What does terrorism do with our world?” A.H. Jackson. Yale Daily News, October 3, 2001;
“Case study: Timothy McVeigh” D. Firth. Current, May 13, 1999;
“Lecture focuses on the morality of terrorism” J. Kim. Contributing reporter, October 29, 2001;
“Terrorism or searching for justice?” P. Hamilton. Times, September 20, 2002.
