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John M Atkinson (jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu) wrote:
: %Ruby Ridge. Waco.

: Something a little more obviously a long-term policy.  Any one who thinks taking
: down a handful of fanatics is just cause for revolt has mental problems.

Thats awfully myopic of you.  Regardless of my or your particulat fellings
out these individuals personal religous or governmental opinions is no
cause for hunting them down, demonizing them, surrounding them with tanks,
and shooting and burning their children alive.

I agree that these groups held some peculiar, and in Koreshs case
ridiculous, notions - but thats no reason to start seeing them as "enemies
of the State".   Christ, we treat Serial Murders better in this country,
but if you hole in a building and have some rather odd opinions suddenly
that demonizes and makes it OK to treat you like an Animal?

The last time I checked, everyone EVERYONE in the country was still
considered innocent until proven guilty.  I have no love lost for any
cult, but I will never forgive the Federal Government for parking tanks
around a Cult compund and driving the occupants right into their own
ideology which in the end gave them exactly the scenario their Insane
leader needed to coax them all into dying.

Cult members deserve our sympathy - they've been conned by lying Scum bags
that prey on human weaknessed, or Paranoid delusionalists that have the
power to convince people likewise - killing them off does nothing but
punish people for the very same falings in rationalism and judgment we ALL
possess.  Afterall, all they ever did was believe in something that
wasn't and couldn't see past their desire for it to be true - something
everyone has been guilty of sometime or another in their lives.  


M. Shinn