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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (29294)	1/29/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I do profess to believe in civil liberties. I do respect the right to refuse entry to police without a warrant. But I have had cops physically push me aside and walk into my house to break up a raucous teenage party with a band on Saturday night, and have them search kids and give them sobriety tests. I did care to shoot the cops, and there was nothing I could do to protect the rights of my children and their friends. We never allowed drugs or alcohol at parties in our house. But despite the attempted refutations, I believe there was reasonable suspicion that Koresh was abusing kids. I think it obvious that the feds used the arms questions to escalate the child abuse accusations into something that the feds could attack. I know the brutal mentality of federal prosecutors as well as anyone. I also know that for many of them, the end justifies the means, and they will use any trick to stop a crime -- especially against children. If you consider the chain of threats and immunities in the Mobile Drug Conspiracy, or the obsessive drive to destroy Clinton when there was no public harm (I'm not offended by a man covering his blow jobs from an intern or even using a cigar in a public office with intent to titillate -- I would do not less (but somewhat cleverer, I hope) were I lucky enough to be so approached), you see the Javier-like vengeance of these federal officers. Surely Koresh should have been taken in town, it is always a mistake to track a predator to his den unless you are willing to kill all of his, mates and kits and all in taking him. But, as Sophocles pointed out, to err is human. And as Kant declared it is not results that determine the goodness of an act, but on the good will. No federal officer want to kill any one. Their blunders are the mistakes, I believe, of unthinking good men. Koresh was ready to kill, and once he was wounded, ready to take all of them men, women, and children into the fiery death that he decreed and prepared for the final day.