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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (5056)	12/6/2000 5:05:52 PM
From: TraderGreg	Respond to of 6710

Before this lawyer is done, he'll be claiming that Bush didn't even get half the Republican absentee ballots. Of course, he'd never put up real money that Bush got less than 80% of them. TG

To: TraderGreg who wrote (5056)	12/6/2000 5:07:34 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

No, I don't think Koresh was an innocent person who was just slaughtered by the government. But there were plenty of innocent children who died there. The whole thing was overkill, no pun intended. It was far from the best use of federal government resources, surely you would agree with that?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (5056)	12/6/2000 6:10:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

I say Koresh and Jim Jones are two birds of a feather. Baloney. More like a buzzard and a hummingbird. Jones took his followers out of the country, confined them ina compound and, without any government assault or fire squads around, without music being blared at him by his government for weeks on end, intentionally killed them. Koresh was creating a legal sect within the country. For the most part, of not the whole part, he followed the laws, he let local law enforcement officials and federal agents onto the property freely and did target shooting with them, he walked out in public where he could have been arrested or served a warrant at any time, there is no evidence that anyone was prevented from leaving the site, the charges of child abuse are now admitted to have been invented by the govenment, he was subjected to an illegal armed raid based on false affidavits of government officials, and on and on. I don't want to recap the whole Waco situation, nor do I claim that he was a saint (or a sinner), but the cases are TOTALLY different, and to ignore their differences is like claiming that the Nazis and the jews at Auschwitz were birds of feather because they both lived in the same concentration camps.