Zooko Journeyman wrote:

Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> mumbled:

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It's amazing that Freeh would admit that shooting an unarmed woman holding an infant is what "he was trained to do" and was "within the scope of his authority" and that he "reasonably believed [it] was proper" to do so. What are they teaching at FBI school nowadays?

Horiuchi's defense is really no different than Timothy McVeigh's: "yes, it was a mistake but he felt it was justified and reasonably believed at the time that what he was doing was proper..." Too bad McVeigh didn't have a badge saying FBI on it.

Lest any naive readers who aren't familiar with the details of the event buy this kind of spin-doctoring, please be aware that the woman in question was probably not visible to the sniper, and it is almost certain that he was aiming at her armed husband who was shooting back. The bullet travelled through a door or some such obstruction I think (I forget the details) before hitting the victim.

Zooko fails to take into consideration that the FBI's role in the affair was to back the unnecessary fascist actions of those who had decided it was their right to interfere in the life of a family which was largely minding their own business and seeking to live their lives free from constant subjection to a wide variety of often senseless and/or meaningless, arbitrary laws. Truthmonger