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The Oklahoma City bombing was a landmark event in our nation’s history that changed U.S. Domestic policy and Federal regulations. Some effects of the bombing are that the U.S. government realized that there are fringe organizations which exist to protest the United States government. The bombing shed light on the fact that said fringe organizations could potentially strike back at the government for their own controversial actions. McVeigh timed the bombing to coincide with the second anniversary of the ending of the Waco siege because he was infuriated by the government’s actions. The fact that a single citizen who disagreed with the government’s policy could wreak so much havoc raised alarm bells in Washington. Following the bombing it was ordered by congress that all federal offices within major cities be surrounded by protective barriers. Almost immediately after the bombing, jersey barriers were placed outside federal buildings within city limits. These were part of a long term plan to erect permanent barriers outside the buildings. Many facilities still bear the Jersey barriers on their grounds, without any sort of permanent barrier being erected. According to security consultants, between 1995 and 2005 at least sixty terrorist plots were aborted by the federal agents.
