re your evil tax dollars at work was re atf burns ranch etc etc mark mark sachs mbs psuvm psu edu writes in article mgb slacvm slac stanford edu mgb slacvm slac stanford edu says from a p according to numerous accounts by those in the compound the fire was started by an armoured vehicle crushing a large propane tank and turning over numerous gas lanterns oh then why did the smoke and flames start from three different places in particular three different places where there were no apv s this claim hasn t been retracted or contradicted yet as many earlier government claims have at least one clip showed a fire erupting after a tank busted in a wall we have unsubstantiated claims by the government about the flirs spotting simultaneous fires and if the government did start the fire then why weren t people trying to get out of the compound that s easy six hours of cs gas heavy smoke from a rapidly spreading fire confusion panic only got out the building was collapsing all around them and finding the way out was a matter of luck and besides oh i don t know why i m even bothering the davidians may have committed suicide or some few zealots among them might have started the fires that is possible but given the government s earlier inability to tell a straight story i find my above scenario equally possible i wait for some independent investigation to look into the whole thing it would be one thing if the government spokespeople had been consistent and forthright throughout keeping the press far away and ghettoized in pools was not conducive to building up trust sealing the warrants was non optimal as well this operation was out of control from the git go i find it tremendously chilling that so many people seem willing to accept the governments story despite much evidence to the contrary i find it tremendously chilling that so many people seem eager to believe a murderous heavily armed religious cult despite much evidence to the contrary thought experiment suppose this exact same thing happened under the bush administration what would your answer be then would you still prefer to believe the cultists speaking only for myself i think bush and reagan should have been impeached over iran contra in i would probably have given the benefit of the doubt to the government no more like i said i ll wait to see the results of an independent investigation if there is one before i choose whom to believe no i don t really expect a response to that challenge but you got one anyway but then again that is how mr clinton was elected by people who believe that his campaign promisses would be respected by him once he got into office um isn t that how all politicians are elected i generally vote for the lesser of two evils this last time it was the least of three evils if people will believe that of any politican it is little wonder they will believe all of the factoids being given out as fact by the clinton reno fbi batf confederation so is there any particular reason the gummint decided to slaughter eighty people are they like just plain evil or what did they just wake up one day stretch and yawn and throw a dart at a map of the united states to figure out who to oppress that day i m eager to know it was a bureaucratic execution out of control bureaucracies driven by percieved self interest and gross stupidity and does bill clinton have cooler theme music than darth vader how is he on diabolical laughter does he look good in a cape these things must be investigated you first clinton is just another statist my only problem with clinton on this is that he is apparently willing to blindly back the atf and fbi so i propose that we destroy the moon neatly solving that problem your blood pressure just went up mark sachs is mbs psuvm psu edu disclaimer if psu knew i had opinions they d try to charge me for them paul hager hagerp moose cs indiana edu i would give the devil benefit of the law for my own safety s sake from a man for all seasons by robert bolt
