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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (183)	8/30/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 1449

<<Those who sow evil reap evil.>> I was refering to the greater(but far less thinking) "we" that elected the lesser "them" that did Waco. No, I know you & I did not elect them, but "We the people" screwed up. Yes, they lied, cheated the vote, cheated on campagin funds, own the press, and many other factors, but not enough good people fought hard enough either. & btw, I can not agree with McVeigh's actions, perhaps if he had declared war first????? No, I'm not sure the FBI did NOT know it was coming, No, it may have been far bigger than we have been told, Yes, I'd bet money "they" covered up evidence & lastly NO, I don't believe McVeigh & company got a square deal under the current "justice"(? - ha-ha) system. None of this matters, he was wrong & I'm near sure McVeigh had something(great deal) to do with the killings in OK City. Oh yes, "they" made McVeigh.

To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (183)	8/30/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: Ferguson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1449

I am wondering why we use the word "they" so much? It is as much "our" fault that the government attacks innocent people as it is "their" fault. It was said earlier that this country we live in is a Republic. In a Rebublic aren't we the ones who vote our leaders into leadership positions, and isn't it our duty and right to question their actions and stop them if necessary. I am young, I was not even old enough to vote when all this went down in Waco. But, if something was not being carried out in a manner that you percieved to be just, then where were you all when the Fed's torched that building? Should the govenment have interfered? Do we have the right to tell some group that their religion is wrong and we are going to shut it down? I think that Americans like to complain, but they don't like to do anything about what they are complaining about. We will let the government do whatever it wants as long as our lives go undisturbed. We worry about the president's latest scandal and NATO's latest "cause" because the news tells us to. It was the same way with Waco as far as I can tell, only the news wanted us to see it as the Fed's saving these poor people from their twisted beliefs. This happens in a land that was founded by revolutionaries and people that didn't assimilate. Now, this is a land of persecution, where rebel indians in Mexico are considered evil because they don't want to give up their homes for industry and advancement, and these indians are slaughtered by Mexican troops with U.S. backing while we fight in the Balkans against the same type of atrocities. Hypocrisy, intolerance, and ignorance is the American way.