JoeB131
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But if the Davidians were Black you'd be complaining about that, calling it racism -- and you know it.Yet 11 Davidians were tried and convicted in their roles in the shooting, but no ATF Agents were.
Um.. no. You shoot a cop, you generally get no sympathy from me.
So said King George to George Washington.
Uh, no, he didn't. In fact, King George was willing to accommedate the Founding Slave Rapists...
But that was a long time ago and much has changed where the Spirit of '76 is concerned. The percentage of Americans who have acquired an authoritarian/submissive orientation has grown and continues to increase year-by-year. In this example degradation of the Liberty spirit is manifest in the expressed willingness to submit to authority rather than to defend the sanctity and privacy of one's home. The Castle Doctrine was contemptuously ignored.
You mean most people don't want to live next door to kiddy-diddling, gun dealing, meth-smoking cultists? Um... yeah.
Correctly believing the government agents had no just cause to break into and search their home the Davidians chose to defend that sovereign right. Koresh believed the American People would rise in support of the Davidians' decision if they knew the truth, but the federal agents blocked access to the media. In spite of the fact that reporters demanding access to the Davidians were willing to assume all responsibility for their personal safety the federal agents isolated them to a location about a mile away from the site of the standoff. They were also denied access by telephone.
Uh, no. MOst Americans thought the Davidians were scumbag cultists because they were scumbag cultists WHO WERE HAVING SEX WITH CHILDREN!!!!
The American People tolerated this oppressive isolation thus allowing the Waco Massacre to occur as the symbolic death of the First and Fourth Amendments.
The First and Fourth Amendments are not "get out of jail free cards".
The Davidians were illegally converting weapons.
They were molesting children.
They were dealing drugs.