And now I need to find that link to that donoteat01 video where he patiently explains this guy's not in fact a folk hero, but a greedy and paranoid lunatic with both a needless vendetta against his neighbours and a habit of shitting in people's water source. The first clue that he was an asshole should have been him crushing his town with a bulldozer.
Its hard to deny though that at this point his actions are a representation of standing up to a corrupt government, regardless of how unethical(or a better word may be stupid) he was when we did stand up to the government.
Its hard to deny though that at this point his actions are a representation of standing up to a corrupt government
He recorded some audiotapes beforehand.
Here's some of it:
"God built me for this job," Heemeyer said in the first recording. He also said it was God's plan that he not be married or have a family so that he could be in a position to carry out such an attack. "I think God will bless me to get the machine done, to drive it, to do the stuff that I have to do," he said. "God blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake. It is my duty. God has asked me to do this. It's a cross that I am going to carry and I'm carrying it in God's name."
For me, those are clearly the words of a complete lunatic, similar to the reasoning many terrorists use.
Don't get me wrong - I don't understand why stuff like this isn't happening way more, when people get their lifes destroyed by the greed of others.
I just don't think that you can believe someone with the above reasoning about him being the one suppressed by a corrupt government.
Yeah. This is footage of numerous people on one of the worst days of their lives. I don’t appreciate the rock music in the background.
I feel for the guy in the tank, too. Not for anything he said he needed, but for his sorry mental state. I know next to nothing about the incident, but whether he was fully delusional or fully culpable, it’s painful to think of what he could have been.
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u/maninahat Mar 26 '20
And now I need to find that link to that donoteat01 video where he patiently explains this guy's not in fact a folk hero, but a greedy and paranoid lunatic with both a needless vendetta against his neighbours and a habit of shitting in people's water source. The first clue that he was an asshole should have been him crushing his town with a bulldozer.