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In article <3922ad27.5139494@news.ican.net>,
Ivan Gowch  <gowch@SPAMMENOThotmail.com> wrote:
}On 16 May 2000 21:43:42 -0400, wb8foz@panix.com (David Lesher) wrote:
}
}==>Ivan Gowch <gowch@SPAMMENOThotmail.com> writes:
}==>>The issue of self-defence is hardly relevant here.  The fact is that
}==>>it's stupid beyond belief -- suicidal, in fact -- to engage a heavily
}==>>armed force of government gunmen in a firefight.
}
}==>Without taking sides here, the above supposes you KNOW the heavily
}==>armed dudes, piling out of a cattle trailer spraying lead, clad in
}==>ninja suits, are in fact G-men.....
}
}As I'm sure you know, the BATF did not approach the compound "spraying
}lead."

That is disputed.  What is undisputed is that ATF used grenades
("flash bangs", though if you're within a few feet you're dead
anyway) before any shooting broke out.

}And, last I heard, the Branch Davidians were not engaged in an armed
}struggle with a rival cult who could be expected to assault the Waco
}redoubt clad in kevlar and carrying automatic weapons.

This is always an interesting defense of the government... "Who ELSE
is going to attack you?"

-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."