8:44 AM
Writing as I watch CNN’s coverage of reporters giving accounts of Timothy McVeigh’s Execution. Not sure how I feel on the whole issue right now. Taking a life as a punishment for something never made much sense to me. In this case though, I’m troubled by the way I feel in regards towards his actions and this sense of anger and “maybe they should hang the bastard” I get when thinking about what he did.
Now I’m a person who won’t squash bugs. If there’s a bee in the house or a spider on the computer I’ll go to the trouble of getting a cup and a piece of paper and I’ll capture the critter and take it outside instead of squishing it. Life is too short and too precious to arbitrarily kill anything that gives us the creeps. That’s MODO and I’m a bonafide weirdo. I don’t expect anyone else to see the world like that and if you catch me flushing the really mean bugs down the toilet in some crazed act of “it bit me so it must die” … don’t hold too much over my head. I’m allowed my faults as well.
Getting back to Timothy McVeigh, the last subject of death will pop up one last time for a while (other than talking about Phil Hartman — which is coming one of these days). McVeigh was in a situation where he knew he was going to die. He knew the date, the time, the place and who would be watching his final moments on Earth. He also knew that he was either solely responsible (if you believe that theory), or part of a plot (more likely — there’s still A LOT we don’t know about this case), that was responsible for killing a lot of people. I mean we’re not talking act of passion, not that would matter in this case, but a deliberate action to kill a lot of innocent people just because he was angry over from what I understand, of all things, Janet Reno and the Waco situation.
Note to self, if Janet Reno pissed me off and I’d want to take action against someone to an extreme level, it would be a lot easier to find Janet Reno and punch her in the mouth. Not that I’d advocate such a thing, but why punish everyone else because you’re PO’d? A couple of years in jail and a fine compared to … death and destroying the lives of hundreds of people. Hmm.
If you believe in spirits and the afterlife, I have this feeling there are a lot of people with baseball bats waiting for him at light at the end of the tunnel. The other side of me hopes that maybe there’s someone waiting for him who can try to figure out the twisted feelings and emotions that guided his life and bring him to peace.
So last night he sat in a cell. Last night on Earth, knowing that what waits for him on the other side was probably going to be bad. No real compassion there but I wonder what you do when you know that you’re going to die and you only have 8 or 9 hours to spend alone? The press reports said he spent the time writing letters to friends and family. I can’t picture the situation, I don’t want to picture the situation, but again, I hope he used those hours to find peace.
Off that subject as I need to start my day. The coolest remake of any song ever is Poe’s version of the Go-Go’s “Our Lips are Sealed” from the “Gossip” Soundtrack. You might find it listed as “My Lips Are Sealed” by Poe (I’ve seen it in mp3 searches of both). It just reeks of coolocity and it’s currently stuck in my head, not that I mind it much. I love the song … on the first day it’s stuck. It’ll probably make me ill in 3 days or so and I’ll need to purge it. But until then, cool song and worth listening to.
Another day starts, take care on the day,
k9