re janet reno killed the waco children in article bb a de v a vm temple edu richard hoenes v a vm temple edu writes such a hostage situation has taken place on numerous occasions with the result of the police trying to take the place by force and the result being the death of the hostages and the gunmen however this is the first time i ve heard of the blame landing squarely on the police in this country we have a policy of not negotiating a back down from terrorists and hostage takers since that only encourages other terrorists and hostage takers not an accurate analogy david koresh did not take a bunch of hostages and then call the batf with a ransom note you make it sound as if the batf showed up to save those children in the first place i have some interesting news for youbatf has absolutely no jurisdiction in child abuse cases it seems to me that the batf showed up took the davidians hostage then the fbi showed up negotiated to have a few of the hostages released but were unable to keep the batf from killing the rest of the poor people trapped inside the compound steve martin steve martin msmgate mrg uswest com the strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government thomas jefferson
