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From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
Subject: Re: Waco Burnout
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Date: 21 Apr 93 09:49:27 CDT


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?


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