🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3923f5f4.2846714@news.ican.net>,
Ivan Gowch  <gowch@SPAMMENOThotmail.com> wrote:
}On Wed, 17 May 2000 16:19:24 GMT, Ivan Zlatnik
}<soylentgrn@hotmail.com> wrote:
}
}==>In article <3922a250.2364276@news.ican.net>,
}==>  Ivan Gowch <gowch@SPAMMENOThotmail.com> wrote:
}==>> ==> And WACO did not have to end that way.
}==>>
}==>> No argument here, either.  I've never understood why the FBI didn't
}==>> simply wait the Waco wackos out.  Their food was going to run out
}==>> sooner or later and, as crazy as they were, I doubt if they were
}==>> prepared to engage in cannibalism.
}
}==>The FBI did not wait the wackos out becacause
}==>
}==>1. the feds had a search warrant...it really isn't up to the subject of
}==>the warrant to decide when to comply
}
}Let's keep the chronology straight: It was the BATF who had the
}warrant.  The FBI came in response to the shooting of the BATF agents,
}so they didn't need a warrant, and it was the FBI that was in charge
}during the siege.

The FBI did get a warrant for the April 19th attack.  Probably just
CYA.

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