Comments on: Shades of Waco?

By: tiarosa

tiarosa — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:27:16 +0000

The Branch Davidians lived in the Waco area for at least 30 years before Reno went after them. My mother taught some of the children in the sixties; she said they were polite and studious. The group was a danger to no one. David Koresh could have been arrested without harming the others. But that wasn’t their plan, was it?

By: Bill Anderson

Bill Anderson — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:16:36 +0000

I would agree wholeheartedly with Ilana's points -- all of them. Prosecutors today are publicity hounds who no longer are constrained by that thing the ancients once called law. That is because in modern Amerikan "justice" (sic), prosecutors ARE the law. If you don't believe me, just ask them. [Bill Anderson's columns documenting injustice are here]

By: Carolus

Carolus — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:50:36 +0000

Ilana writes: “Lacy and Nifong appear to represent a decaying legal system festooned with incompetents, who substitute the constraints of the law with their ‘grand’ visions.”

That sums it up quite nicely. As someone mentioned not too long ago, a prosector can indict a ham sandwich these days. Indictments, which once upon a time raised questions about a defendant’s claims of innocence, are handed out upon the basis of any old whim or hunch in the present day.

Also, Ilana is quite correct about the complete lack of prosecution of Muslim polygamists. That’s hardly surprising in today’s Alice-in-Wonderland world of jurisprudence and “law-enforcement”, either.

Ever hear of the illustrious Waffen-BATFE going after a drug gang like MS-13, the Crips, the Bloods, or Al Quaeda – who posess far more illegal machine guns than the Davidians ever dreamt of? Heck no! The fearless protectors of our Homeland security only carry out military operations against those they know haven’t a ghost of a chance of actually inflicting casulties upon the Kevlar Kowboyz.

They wouldn’t dare go after an Al-Quaeda cell sporting full-auto AK’s, out of sheer terror from their ACLU and CAIR masters. You have to be a white male or child thereof to be a legitimate target in a BATFE or FBI agent’s gunsights. Can’t be a turban on your head, either.

[A great letter; thanks.]

By: John

John — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:54:00 +0000

The child advocates would respond that rape occurs whenever the “victim” is under 18. So, by their standards, Jeffs would be turning a blind eye by not trying to stop “child abuse.”

By: Stephen W. Browne

Stephen W. Browne — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:51:44 +0000

What was really scary about Waco was that I have heard Americans (Americans dammit!) defend the murder of those harmless religious lunatics because then had, (gasp!) lots of guns.