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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135643)	6/4/2004 5:23:35 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<That's why big anonymous cities are less pleasant than small towns, where people might not all know each other, but they surely know somebody who knows the other person.>> No kidding. I notice when I'm in rural areas everyone waves because they think I may be a neighbor with a new car. <<One of the first incidents which amazed me was the guy in the clock tower who killed a whole lot of people.>> That was Charles Whitman, an ex Marine who had personal problems. He had a target rich environment for the first few minutes. <<Same again at Waco, which wasn't even downtown and could have been surrounded for 6 months without a problem. Instead, the children were killed to be saved. >> That was the Secretary of the Treasury playing big dicker. Sent in the BATF when the Texas Rangers had free run of the compound and could have picked Koresh up at the local WalMart.