"Koresh was out for martyrdom ... and did not give a tinker's damn that he was taking women and children with him. HE got what HE wanted. The government got nothing but the hatred of the deluded who excuse lunatics like the Branch Davidians. I had thought that had cooled, but apparently not." g7

And yet he was little more than a pimple on the government's butt before the government's botched paramilitary raid.
"Don't look now ..." Treb

Thanks Treb. I misread the question. I read it as American history, but did not read the native-born part. Whether T5's point about Eric Rudolph means Rudolph trumps Reno, or Howell, I'll leave to others to decide.

But objective observers will note that Rudolph was predatory. He was the aggressor. He went out to deliberately do harm.
Howell (Koresch) was at home when the paramilitary raid went down.
And McVeigh (the subject of this thread) was seeking vengeance for the inexcusable botched raid, siege, torture, and genocide at Mt. Carmel, TX.

What lesson can we learn from this?
If the government doesn't maintain justice by ethical legal standards, then citizens may step in and do so by their own standards.
To avoid attacks like that on the Murrah federal building, avoid letting the killing of 80 citizens to go completely unpunished.

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2