Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

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Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well. you would think coming out on this tiny conspiracy-minded publisher would mean there’s some interesting stuff among a lot of crank stuff (kind of how i found sinister forces) but it’s very sober and never advances any wacky conclusions, it just puts the pieces out there and lets you interpret them for yourself. i guarantee there is far less ‘misinformation’ in this book than in tons of mainstream books about trump/russia, iraq etc. I’ve had to take multiple decent breaks while I’ve read this because of the information in here genuinely blowing my mind with the implications of it. While there, he, along with several other undergraduate students, became a subject for psychological tests conducted by a former interrogator for the WWII intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – Henry Murray.

Painting works hard to ensure that her investigation retains both a venerable integrity and a solid foundation: nearly all of her information concerning McVeigh comes from the internal memos and documents of McVeigh's defense team, and when it doesn't it either comes directly from the mouths of the defense team itself, or directly from the mouths of McVeigh's friends, family, and associates. Although one of his commanding officers described him as a "very competent" crew chief and "brighter than most people," Oswald expressed pro-Soviet sentiments and on a number of occasions was court-martialed, once for accidently shooting himself in the elbow with a handgun he was not authorized to possess and another time for fighting with a sergeant. After graduating high school, he enrolled in college, where he was remembered as a "strange, aloof and argumentative" fellow who "rarely talked to anybody.

if we actually had a meritocracy this would be elevated way above the insipid NYT/vox line on “extremism” and “radicalization”. We will likely never know that answer, but Aberration gives that idea a fair and impartial analysis, and in the process leaves you with more questions than you came in with.

This volume goes far, far beyond shallow "conspiracy-theory": fundamental questions about the nature of America, the motives of our leaders, and the institutions that ostensibly keep us safe are posed in the internal dialogue of an expansive yet coherent detailing of the highly disturbing internal affairs, evasions, obfuscations, and sometimes even blatant crimes of the various three-letter-acronyms that have become so (perniciously? Was Tim McVeigh a Manchurian Candidate who was the byproduct of MKUltra-style mental and physical manipulation that stripped him of agency? When there's no transparency or care from a governing body, people create their own narratives - stories - which evolve and spread. Writing long before the emergence of the World Wide Web, the authors attributed America's ID epidemic to the unique stresses of modern life, especially information overload, as well as other isolated or ongoing traumatic experiences that, in combination, "lead to the physical breakdown of a person's entire ability to make sense of his experience," making them more suggestible to outside influences and rendering them "prone to uncontrollable urges and sudden outbursts of violence. It delves incredibly deep into not just the perpetrator, but to those who knew him in some fashion to varying degrees.

this is kind of a story that, in an appropriately schizoid way, just keeps on spiraling, going deeper and deeper and deeper. There is something powerful about that, about the willingness to dedicate so much time and energy to a pursuit that may never yield a true conclusion. i adore how each section is sort of grounded on establishing how Everything really does seem Connected, then walking you back, confronting the evidence, providing background for the behaviors and motives and data, revealing how flawlessly all the events and their connective tissue just happen to coincidentally align--maybe. He was sentenced to serve sixty-three years in prison but the sentence was appealed and reduced to fifty-three years. This book ties so many cultural threads of the 1990s together and weaves them through the stories of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

This book went way beyond reasonable expectation and the section on mind control was a special treat and proved to be one of the better parts of the book for anyone who has done their homework on the subject. His bombing campaign ceased when he was apprehended in April 1996, after his brother tipped off the FBI to Kaczynski's whereabouts in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived a hermetic life in a cabin without electricity or running water. However, the sections about the Gulf War and America's changes to policing policy in the 1980s was eye opening. I have several pages of this bookmarked for personal reference, including the chapter on UFO culture, along with the Paul Bennewitz story.He feared other children and refused to interact with them, leading his mother to seek help for what she believed to be autism. there are a ton of long digressions into other subjects like the gulf war, mkultra, the militia movement, UFOs and etc but they’re essential for understanding the period as a whole. Much has been written about Lee Harvey Oswald who, according to the well-known narrative, on November 22, 1963, at the age of twenty-four, fired three shots from the sixth story of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, wounding Texas Governor John Connolly and killing President John F.