-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199706042113.RAA15819@muesli.ai.mit.edu>, on 06/04/97 at 05:13 PM, Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu> said:
The Feds could have done in 1993 what they've done since (Koresh wasn't the only one who got burned there) and LEAVE PEACEFUL PEOPLE ALONE.
yeah peacefull types whose response to a visit from the police was to lie in ambush and shoot at them with automatic weapons.
First off they did not lie in wait for anyone. They were in their home not bothering anyone. You make it seem like they were in the bushes on the side of the road and ambushed a peasefull group of BATF agents on their way to a sunday picnic. The local police had been out to the Waco compound several times without incedent. There was no reason to suspect that another vist would have gone any different. Instead the BATF went in there like an invading army with guns blazing and rightfully got their asses handed to them.
So are you suggesting that the police ignore the complaints of illegal ownership of firearms and child abuse?
Last time I looked (horror of horrors) guns are still *LEGAL* in this country. As far as child abuse there was no evidence of this other than the word of 1 disgruntaled former member of their group. Even if the *local* police felt that this complaint warented investigation all that was called for was a vist by a Human Services Case Worker not a military invasion. All this aside I guess you feel that the Feds should be able to wage military campains against its citizens just on unsbstantiated rummors. Gee where did I put that quarter? Perhaps I should call the BATF and give them YOUR address. It would be intresting to see how much you love their gestopo tatics when it's your house being riddled with bullets. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM5XrMo9Co1n+aLhhAQEafwP/SOu/2I3Ut/LVyUd4gorkxWi/Rs0HtUCB T8hTUq2GmI4TSkFVSUu4MtkwQr3Um0GvX/nGHCiQe6rEdqTUzEvX+mwQtVHe2ESz risBlq9vTg2cnvxyRLXmvPVRK4B1VUv7PaELZBFfCxwDpA4F8hrv940ZdFxSEIpm UMXmAzOUzR4= =UIg8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----