Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing [Hardcover]

This book explores an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.This book explores an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The author served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team and draws on information based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh.This book explores an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The author served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team and draws on information based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh.This book explores an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The author served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team and draws on information based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh. Wright contends that McVeigh was firmly entrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a network of 'warrior cells' that planned and carried out the bombing. By examining the Patriot movement's history and subsequent reconfiguration of conflicts with the state, McVeigh's role in the bombing can be more fully understood.1. Codicil to a Patriot profile; 2. Patriots, political process, and social movements; 3. Historical context of Patriot insurgency; 4. The farm crisis, threat attribution, and Patriot mobilization; 5. State mobilization: building the trajectory of contention; 6. The gun rights network and nascent Patriots: rise of a threat spiral; 7. Movement-state attributions of war: Ruby Ridge and Waco; 8. Patriot insurgency and the Oklahoma City bombing; 9. Patriot movement demobilization and decline. Why did domestic terrorism on the scale of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing occur? [Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing] shows how convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and his cls,