Citizens are people too
To the editor,
In the March 9 issue of the Wildcat, a news article entitled "Supreme Court rejects McVeigh's appeal" stated that "A federal appeals court last fall upheld convictions and death sentence in the deaths of eight federal law enforcement officers."
I thought all men were created equal. The life of a law enforcement officer, federal or not, has no more value than the life of a standard citizen of the United States of America. Oklahoma prosecutors have SAID that they PLAN to charge McVeigh with first degree murder for the death of 160 victims (four YEARS after the crime). Apparently, eight cops mean more than 160 civilians. Law enforcement exists to protect the people; cops MUST die if their duty requires it.
Law enforcement officers are receiving preferential treatment; the death of any cop will always shadow the death of a normal citizen. Our lives have been devalued if other humans are granted "VIP" status. We have been enshrouded in the emergence of a police state, although it is not blatantly obvious right now.
This infraction of democracy is unequivocally a primary step towards an eventual transformation of the United States into something few will recognize, and even fewer will question. Hello Big Brother. You ARE just a number. Didn't you know that?
John T. Rourke
Electrical engineering sophomore
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