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Re: Keep Elian from the brainwashing in Havana Re: Elian: Send The Boy Home!

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From: Tiny Human Ferret
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:00
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Ivan Zlatnik 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
> 2. the BDs had food in there to last a long time...over a year
> 3. from experience, the feds knew that people under siege have a habit
> of destroying evidence
> 4. the BDs were led by a man believed to have apocalyptic visions and
> they would do themselves (and the children) in if left to it
> 5. if you remember the situation there, armed wackos of various flavors
> had begun to congregate at the site...many of whom wanted to enter the
> compound and join the BDs to help fight off the black helicopters.

Sorry, wrong seige, you're thinking of that Montana or Wyoming standoff
a few years later.

> 
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> Before you buy.
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From: Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net>
Subject: Re: Keep Elian from the brainwashing in Havana Re: Elian: Send The Boy Home!
Date: 2000/05/18
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