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To: Joe NYC who wrote (101932)	4/4/2000 2:09:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579777

Jozef Re: I guess that's why Jim McMannis calls her Janet "Waco on Wall Street" Reno Jozef, Thanks for filling me in. I thought she had made some comments this morning causing the market to tank. Like slick willy clinton did to the bio-techs recently. Or like hillary did to the phamacuticals a while back. chic

To: Joe NYC who wrote (101932)	4/4/2000 2:33:00 PM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579777

"Janet Reno and free enterprise: Janet Reno sent her troops to break up Microsoft - big bad monopoly. You can see the result in your RTQ." You guys are such fools. If the government hadn't come down hard on MSFT, what do think Intel would have done to AMD by now? AMD would be bankrupt (or a flash only company) if Intel felt no restraint whatsoever from the government. I suppose you would have been on the side of Standard Oil at the turn of the century. That would have been good, one oil company to gouge every consumer for 100 years. Or more recently, should AT&T have remained one company? The break up of AT&T has done wonders for the economy. Think of all the new wealth for shareholders that MCI and Sprint and baby bells have generated. One reason the internet has exploded in America is that we don't have the same phone systems as exist in most other countries. Where a monopolist phone company exists, everyone has to pay high access charges, unlike in the US where it is essentially part of your local phone bill service. You'd feel a lot different about logging onto the internet for hours if you were paying a $100 bill at the end of the month to the phone company.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (101932)	4/4/2000 3:05:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579777

OT: <Reno didn't like a particular religious sect in Waco> You are way too concise here, man! I am surprised why no one is looking at the roots of the problem, but quick to put monikers on it. Let me brief you on the circumstances. A man was shot in his butt on the Davidian premises, and complained. It seems like it would be quite natural for authorities to investigate. However, also quite naturally and in full spirit of freedom, a bunch of child molesters and polygamists (from former state criminals) barricaded themselves on those premises and did not let police in. Quite incidentally, the religious sect happen to have some handy ammunition, hand grenades, to outgun police/FBI for months. I guess they were just protecting their rights to remain silent since they already shot to death several officers. Therefore tanks were employed to play music and read their rights through loudspeakers, for weeks. To protect human rights and execute investigative order, the concert was going and going asking women, kids, and anyone else to quit, until tanks decided to get close. The particular religious sect had some teachings and own projections on how to deal with the evil government, so their leaders decided to demonstrate where the truth is, and occasionally spread flammable liduid all around the compound. How the fire started is not known, but it is apparent that whoever sets it up was not familiar with thermodynamics and heat transfer properties of building materials, so all kids and women were unfortunate to die in an underground bunker. Janet Reno took full responsibility, I guess, for the level of her men's training, and for quick decision-making in process of defending rights of freedom. That's it. Regards, - Ali