On 04-02-09, CHINACAT said to TIM RICHARDSON:

CC>On 4/2/2009 5:52 AM, TIM RICHARDSON wrote to CHINACAT:

-> I have no problem with taking down violent, murderous criminals
CC>masquerading -> as religious devotees,


CC>And that's what the LDS was seen as at the time. Right or wrong doesn't
CC>matter. The perception does.


CC>For a further exercise, though, let's see what the consequences might have
CC>been i


Lets not. It didn't happen, there's no point in spinning it up into something
it isn't.


CC>I also think that until David Koresh actually made some overt violent
CC>action, his group should have been left alone. Stockpiling weapons isn't
CC>against the law under the 2nd, using them, of course, IS. Here in the
CC>south efforts are made to stop the snake handlers...one fundamentalist
CC>sect that -doesn't- proselytise.


You're preaching to the choir. I was one of the first to say without
reservation that the LEO's were the ones who started that fiasco in Waco. And
that was back when it happened. And the government should have been the ones
to pay damages and punitive penalties for it.


The initial entry into the Waco compound of Koresh and his people was totally
out of line. And the improprieties escalated from there, going from bad to
worse. It was a government-LEO circus from the start.


CC>It's a waste of tax money on a violation
CC>of the 1st. As for Steve's disgust with that church, it came from being
CC>married to a former mormon who was constantly being harassed to leave him
CC>and come back to the fold.


Again.Steve's not here and hasn't been for a long time. I don't much care what
he thought-said-felt-heard-or otherwise communicated. In my estimation he was
a dork!


Live with it!


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