🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8fugpp$e8b$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
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

The Feds chose the day they got the search warrant.

}2. the BDs had food in there to last a long time...over a year
So?

}3. from experience, the feds knew that people under siege have a habit
}of destroying evidence

Right, they were going to burn the building down and bulldoze the
remains.  

Oh, wait.  That's what the FBI did.

}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

So the FBI burned the children in order to save them.

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