From: mst4298@rigel.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
Subject: Re: Waco Burnout
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rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes...
>In article <20APR199308471949@rigel.tamu.edu>, mst4298@rigel.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd) writes:
>> In article <visser.735286101@convex.convex.com>, visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes...

>> >	I can't wait for the investigation.  Considering that everyone
>> >is dead now and the place is burnt to the ground, I guess "honest citizens"
>> >will just have to take the word of the ATF about how much of a "threat"
>> >these people were.

>> 	Just look at the history of Koresh and his folowers. They captured
>> 	the Mount Carmel complex a few yearss ago in a gun battle with a
>> 	rival BD sect, leaving more than one person dead. They weren't 
>> 	exactly the most peace loving bunch.

>Koresh & some of his followers were tried and found *innocent* of
>all charges following that shootout.  Were you unaware of this or
>did you purposly leave out this fact?

	The fact is that Koresh and his followers involved themselves
	in a gun battle to control the Mt Carmel complex. That is not
	in dispute. From what I remember of the trial, the authories
	couldn't reasonably establish who fired first, the big reason
	behind the aquittal.

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