On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:55:32 -0500, Artemia Salina wrote:

|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.

I saw that, and had the same reaction. It was a whitewash.
Criminal charges should have been applied.
Rex in Fort Worth