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From: dave@seaview.bsd.uchicago.edu (Dave Griffith)
Subject: Re: Waco survivors 1715 19 April
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 00:04:17 GMT
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In article <C5t74u.5vC@dscomsa.desy.de> hallam@dscomsa.desy.de (Phill  
Hallam-Baker) writes:
> 
> The point is though that you learn through mistakes. The govt
> played the wrong card and lost. Thats not a big deal. They
> had had four guys murdered at the begining and maybee they 
> just were not prepared for wuite this situation. Who could be?
> 
> If the same thing were to happen all over again we might perhaps
> be able to castigate the Govt if they used the same tactics and failed
> in the same way. As it is I can't say that I would not have made the
> same mistake. Maybee I wouldn't because I don't as a rule go in
> for a confrontational situation if I can avoid it. Maybee I would
> because with all those press about its very difficult not to try
> the macho stuff.

My god, how many chances do they get?  Operation Move (Philedelphia, early  
80's), Black Panthers (Chicago, 1969), etc., etc.  Hell, we get heavily armed
millenial cults out west every couple of years.  Do with have to start a  
cascade of times the feds have been in situations like this?

--
Dave Griffith, Information Resources, University of Chicago,
Biological Sciences Division               dave@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu
Brain damage was what we were after.  The chromosome damage was just gravy.
