On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:52:20 +0000, pyotr filipivich wrote:
A city wide blackout at Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:09:55 GMT did not prevent Gunner
from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:32:59 GMT, "Bob Swinney"
wrote:
Yeah! Kinda reminds me of the images of the ATF at Waco being shot through
the thin wall of a metal building and rolling off the roof. Whooda thought
them religious zealots would have had sense enough to shoot through a wall?
Bob Swinney
The bad part was the ATF guys were shooting each other though those
walls. The whole rat**** started out with an ATF Thug shooting
himself in the leg when he got out of the cattle truck. Just about the
time they shot the dogs and puppies in the kennel.
If the Davidians had been one tenth as dangerous as the BATF claimed they
were, there would have been swiss cheesed horse trailers dripping blood from
the dead BATFers.
But that's my opinion.
Am I the only one who remembers the TV special that ran several months after Waco,
which consisted of interviews with surviving AFT agents who gave their side of the
story? I don't remember the details (I think I might've switched channels before
it was over, too), but it seemed awfully contrived and one-sided. In fact, I don't
recall ever seeing that kind of a special before. I was reminded very much of
the stories where two people are partially at fault for something but as each
person tells their side they make themselves out to be angels. The main difference
was that the Davidians weren't there to give their side of what happened.
Up until then I didn't really have an opinion on what happened at Waco, but
after that show I tend to give more credence to those who criticized the ATF.
Perhaps it's just my imagination but I believe that I've been seeing a trend
where LEO's have become more and more paramilitary over the past ten or more
years, and I wonder why. Have the many police reality shows been influencing
other police departments in a keeping-up-with-the-Jones' kind of game? Are
civilians really that much more dangerous than they used to be? If so, why?
--
"There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly."
-- Revi Shankar
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