oppose nomination of John Ashcroft

Reese reeza at flex.com
Fri Jan 19 23:19:03 PST 2001


At 11:54 PM 1/19/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
 >On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:32PM -1000, Reese wrote:
 >> Then why were the troops laying siege to the compound, instead of
 >> snatching koresh when he made one of his frequent trips into town?
 >
 >Because sometimes a show of force is perceved as necessary.

oh geez.  Why was it necessary to bring in tanks, special forces and
gunships for overflights?  Why, when if all they wanted was koresh,
all they had to do was wait for him to go to town again, and snatch
him off the street as he walked down the sidewalk?

Who benefited from this "necessary" show of how forcefully Reno et al.
could burn wooden buildings with people inside them?  Yeah-yeah, the
evidence is contested, re: who started the fires.  What isn't contested
is the armored vehicles poking gun muzzles through the walls.

Reese





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