From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: Re: BATF/FBI Murders Almost Everyone in Waco Today! 4/19
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In article <C5sou8.LnB@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)  
writes:
> In article <1993Apr20.163730.16128@guinness.idbsu.edu> betz@gozer.idbsu.edu  
(Andrew Betz) writes:
> >In article <C5rynw.Iz8@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)  
writes:
> >>And I suppose the FBI also prevented them from coming out with their 
> >>hands up while national tv cameras watch.
> >>
> >Watch from where?  Two miles away?  Far enough away that whatever
> >really happenned must be explained through the vengeful filter of
> >a humiliated agency that said (quote!) "Enough is enough."
> 
> Please tell me what you think would have happened had the people 
> come out with their hands up several weeks ago.
> 
It didn't happen.

> >>scenario that is simplest and most plausible.  I do not generally 
> >>believe in conspiracy theories that involve complicated and unlikely 
> >>scenarios.
> >
> >The FBI sent letters to Martin Luther King's wife insinuating
> >that MLK was having an affair!  Again, please tell us exactly
> >how much you trust our supposedly benevolent government.
> 
> More than someone who would not release children from the compound.
> 
Obviously.  You are an authority worshiper.

> I.e., more than David Koresh/Vernon Howell/"Jesus Christ".
> I saw lengthy excerpts from an Australian documentary made in 
> 1992 that clearly showed that this was a cult.
> 

Give me a camera, and time with you, and I can present excerpts that show you  
to be a cult leader.  Guarenteed. You should at least view the whole  
documentary before you claim it as a source.


> I am not pleased with the BATF handling of the affair.  I think they 
> bungled it badly from the start.  But I don't think they are 
> responsible for the fire, which started in two different places.
> 

Two places, eh?  You saw this?  Or did the wonderful FBI tell you this?  
I saw one place.

> >>The BATF is by no means devoid of fault in the handling of this affair.
> >>But to suggest that they may have intentionally started the fire is 
> >>ludicrous.
> >
> >I suspect that there were plenty of camerapeople willing to
> >risk small arms fire to get some good footage.  These people
> >were told to get the hell out of camera range.  Why?
> >

Couldn't answer this one, eh?  This is the most important question of all, it  
is the root cause of all the other suspicion.

> >Drew 
> >--
> >betz@gozer.idbsu.edu
> >*** brought into your terminal from the free state of idaho ***
> >*** when you outlaw rights, only outlaws will have rights   ***
> >*** spook fodder: fema, nsa, clinton, gore, insurrection, nsc,
> >    semtex, neptunium, terrorist, cia, mi5, mi6, kgb, deuterium
> 
> 
> -- 
> 

Jim

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