Creep of the Week - June 14, 1997

Image: Stephen Jones & Death Headline

Stephen Jones
"If You Think Tim Was Bad, Just Wait!"
Admittedly, Stephen Jones had a tough job to do. After his quick, incompetent defense of Timothy McVeigh resulted in an equally quick conviction, Stephen had to convince the jury to spare Tim's life. He trotted out the old parents and the old Army buddies who told the old tales of a good little boy and a good soldier in the Gulf War. We were even treated to old home movies showing Tim playing with his friends and sitting in Santa's lap. I expected to see Santa called in to testify that "Tim didn't pee on me like so many of those other brats do." OK - That's all part of the games lawyers have to play. Stephen could have left it at that and gone home feeling like he'd done the best he could in a difficult situation.

But as Stephen proved even before the trial started, he's simply a slimebag. How best to convince the jury to see it his way? Put the blame on someone else. Who was REALLY responsible for the bombing that caused the deaths of 168 people, injuries to 500 more and the ruining of thousands of other lives? Federal agents. Tim believed that "the increasing use of military-style force and tactics by federal law-enforcement agencies against American citizens threatened an approaching police state." Know what else Tim believed? He "believed deeply in the ideals upon which the United States was founded." Ideals like meticulously planning the deaths of innocent people because you're pissed off at the government? And you - yes I mean YOU! - sitting there in front of your computer with that innocent look on your face - you're to blame for this, too! "We all bear some responsibility for Oklahoma City," the lawyer said.

End of story? No, Stephen was just getting warmed up. If all that Waco and Ruby Ridge crap we've heard hundreds of times as the excuse for this tragedy didn't sway the jurors, why not threaten them? Don't sentence Tim to death because certain evil people might not like it and they know your names and addresses. "You have to make the first step to restore domestic tranquillity. You know now that Oklahoma City started something." If that doesn't start your boots-a-shakin', how about this? "He is not alone. His fears are not alone. He is everyman." Stick the poison needle in this guy's arm and all those unknown co-conspirators will come crawling out of their survivalist rat holes to get you in the night like the bogeyman. As Al Borland would say, "I don't think so, Tim."

The jury, by then thoroughly intimidated and quaking with fear, deliberated for a couple of days and then came back with a message for Tim, Stephen, Terry Nichols and all the other "I'm not causing mass destruction and death, I'm just doing my patriotic duty by starting the revolution against government injustice" morons:

"Kill the son of a bitch."

Good patriots like Tim must have been thrilled to see the system finally work like it's supposed to.

Let me know what you think at montgome@servtech.com

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