What the Stand Off in Oregon is Distracting Us From

‘On April 24, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act into law. This act was introduced by Senator Bob Dole, and it had bi-partisan support. It passed the Senate with a vote of 91 to 8 and passed in the House of Representatives with a vote of 293 to 133. Not unlike the Patriot Act, this act was introduced and passed in response to terror attacks, both the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred Murrah building in 1995. The stated purposes of the act are to “deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes.”

In the years between the two bombings, the panic-inducing rhetoric was in full swing over home-grown, right-wing extremist, anti-government terrorism (not unlike today). Of course, Timothy McVeigh played into that perfectly with a Ryder truck with home-made fertilizer bombs in the back. It is easy to see, after that bombing, how law makers on all sides would want to be viewed as doing their part to fight terrorism.’

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