Timothy McVeigh
Dear Dr. A.
First & foremost, let me tell you Dr., you are in the minority as far as the Timothy McVeigh’s sentence is concerned. A recent Gallup-CNN poll found that the horror Mcveigh unleashed made him an exception even for some people who generally oppose the death penalty. Eighty percent said they thought McVeigh should die. Then to a few people of my level of barbarism, it appears that if a simpler punishment than the death by 3 killer injections existed, perhaps it would have been to hack off his two arms from the shoulders itself so that he wouldn’t be able to load loads of explosives any longer to rented trucks & saw off his legs from the waist joints itself so that he wouldn’t be able to drive trucks any longer to huge buildings that house playschools among others. Arrangements could have been done at great Automated American butchers where mass slaughtering of cows done by guillotine as it is being the USA with the best of technology & the best & highest of everything produced invented & discovered since Columbus from Colt 42 at High Noon to two Nuclear Bombs to a country defending itself & to the Micro Processor with incredible 35 million transistors thanks to which this message is transmitted to your goodself on the double, double quick, in real battle speed. Now the modified version of Mr. Mcveigh, or rather dead stump could be immersed in a glass vat borrowed from the so called British artist Damien Hurst & could be exhibited at one of the top modern arts museums amidst audio-video displays of McVeigh’s Oklahoma bombing & by the side of Mr.Hurst’s cross section of a pregnant cow in a glass vat containig gallons of formaldehyde. Just in case you still have not heard of Mr. Hurst’s , let me tell of his masterpiece: all you need is bit of twisted imagination & a chainsaw. That is his art in his own words & that’s art for you. Now Mr. Hurst, to which tradition, to which cannon, to which school does your masterpiece belong? That is nothing less than the gullibility of the human nature exploited to ridicules lengths: one of the finest weapons of mass murderers is the unimaginable stretch of credulity of the human race.
Now, that is fine twisted imaginative art created out of our finely twisted young man of a mass murderer of 128 men, women, children & toddlers. Still more to do justice to his 4 limbs, those could be sent out to four corners of the world, one to most popular gateway to Great wall of china, another to ticket counter at Eiffel Tower in, another to the main assembly hall of United Nations & the other to the jungle hide out of Asia’s Second Pol Pot, who became the frst man ever to mastermind & succeed in assassinations of two ruling leaders, of two countries, a President & a Prime Minister, both by suicide bombings, among thousands of innocent civilians by way of bombing aircrafts, trains, buses, bus holts, banks, temples & mosques barring churches which he spared in view of patronizing bishops.
If that is unbelievable imaginative barbarity of a cannibal, what was the bombing of Oklohama building? No. its not eye for eye nor toth for tooth I am clamouring for. Its both eyes for the eye & whole set of teeth for the tooth.
You must be wondering whether it is the same man who wrote of Iliad & Madame Bovary so passionately. Take heart, professor, the most basic character of Christian Thought, according to Henri De Lubec is the acceptance of “paradox”. If that wouldn’t convince you how do you see the three-headed version of Lord Shiva, the Trimurthi depicting his role as creator, preserver & destroyer? That’s 3 in 1 for you, by the Lord himself. No I am not a Hindu.
Death sentence to McVeigh is not a matter to lament with. Should anyone wish to lament anytime he may find endless suffering of mankind is beyond his compassionate contemplation. Within reality of our day to day to life justice is an indispensable element & capital punishment is a necessary tool. If we fail to recognize our elements we would be no better than a fish out of water doomed to quick death. Retribution is not merely mindless vengeance, as Plato reminds us in the Protagoras, but “ a deterrent so that the criminal may not strike again”. To the Greeks, a society, a society that cannot punish but only forgive & rationalize is as culpable, as amoral, as the criminal himself. It asks more of us get into the ring & get dirty with evil, to punish face-to–face the suddenly repentant, than to forget & ignore at a safe & snug distance. The law & its justice must prevail above all, at all times, in all circumstances for the mere survival of human race if not for anything else. Even thieves- to protect them from killing each other- divvy up their loot according to an abstract & unchanging notion of what is just & fair. Justice is a necessary & absolute idea, existing & refined from time immoral, & to be shared by any who enjoy even the most minimal concept of humanity.
And we must not forget long before the conventional judicial systems, long before the emergence of Judeo-Christian civilization, it was Greek civilization which brought light into the darkness of chaos. The canons of Homer’s Greeks, whatever their claimed pedigree, are the product not really of Gods or even of mere age, custom, & practice. They are guides hammered out through trial & error, vote & veto, consensus & discord. They derive from generations of rational discussion & argumentation by wise men-ultimately from the traditional approval of the citizenry. Instead of lamenting the death of McVeigh, the academics of literature may do better to lament the death of Homer, the Greek Cannon.
Coming back to the credulity of the human race, it would be interesting to note that in 1979 Professor Ben Kiernen of Yale university, USA admitted he had been “late” in assessing the Cambodian tragedy at the hands of Pol Pot. The good Professor was 2 million people & rivers of blood & tears late; thousands of nights of untold miseries late. The long years of inaction of the United nations & United States simply to keep the Khmer Rouge patron China at the negotiating table was to cause the 2 million human lives off the surface of the earth as if they were flies. And if United Nations & USA had their own reasons, albeit unjustifiable, for the inaction against heinous crimes, crimes against humanity, what was the reason for Prof. Kiernen?
Was it stacks of United States Dollars from the Communist propgandanists, was it desire to sensationalize the news, was it that he was labouring under the delusion that he would be able convince the credulous world how intellectual he was by means of presenting the genocide from the point of view or rather no point of view of the Pol Pot, was it to play down the heinous genocides by Pol Pot so that United Nations & United States could buy time, or was it simply a totally distorted & debased version of a human conscience?
The truth is the academic morons of the caliber of Professor Kiernen are aberrations of human nature as much as mass murderers of the caliber of Pol Pot, Milosevic, Radvan, Hitler, Stalin & Asia’s second Pol Pot. So was McVeigh. These cannibals are not created in the image of god, these are Devil himself incarnate. Swifter we make them buried six feet under, better for the human race.
McVeigh’s victims being Americans unlike Pol Pot’s & Asia’s second Pol Pot, no effort was spared to hunt him down. Yet it took another five years for American justice System to prove him guilty spending millions of United States Dollars. Imagine for a moment, with such a huge amount of money , the number of scholarships in USA that could have been granted to South Asian Computer wiz kids lead by India? Wishful thinking of wiz kids & money of the Americans’ apart, the main draw back in the justice system today is its inability to cope swiftly with terrorism. The time for whole new code of laws has come; the time to talk of kings & cabbages has arrived. New draconian sets of laws against the devils must see the light of the day breaking out of the darkness of black death. A bible of International & domestic laws ought to be composed so that the mass murderers who perpetuates heinous crimes against humanity could be brought into justice swiftly by the Defense Command of the victimized countries instead of leaving matters to judicial systems, the conventional justice systems of those countries. Yet unfortunately, today our civilization is in total anarchy & held hostage by a handful of terrorists-beasts who make a mockery of the institutions of democracy & justice. Still more in the name of justice, mass murderers even when arrested, as in the cases of McVeigh, Oclan & Serbian killers were allowed to further burden their countries with long time consuming legal proceedings with their inherent money devouring nature in addition to the burden of damage done to the property of the state & lives already taken. The very system against which they unleash terror provide shelter to them.
Having released such malicious barrage over McVeigh, let me tell you it is very difficult for me to imagine, given a chance, I would have been glad to view his death, alive or by closed circuit television or by commercial telecast. And no survivors of McVeigh’s victims derived a flash of a joy from seeing him killed either. All of them merely accepted it as a justice done by way of necessary evil: capital punishment.
