Keep you eyes on the developing situation with the Davidians in Waco, Texas. I have a copy of the film that was one of the things that started this entire investigation. I'm not interested at all in conspiracy theories and alarmist writers, BUT that film shocked me to my core.

Now it's all coming out in the open, hopefully. A government capable of this kind of cover up is capable of anything.

This is not Off-Topic, unfortunately. It is one of the reasons I have no faith in anything the President says about y2k...or his mouthpiece.

-- LindaO (LindaO@hotmail.net), August 26, 1999

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Linda,

Remember Rudy Ridge. I often wonder what that snipper thought was in the babys diaper when he shot a mother w/ babe in arms.

-- CT (ct@no.yr), August 26, 1999.

The biggest horror in these things is the willingness of the "police" to kill our own citizens. In Waco, they could have taken Koresh into custody at any time prior to the onslaught. He went into town for supplies and things on a weekly basis. In Ruby Ridge, the shooting of the son in the back and then the wife/mother was just more of the same disregard for life. Apparently the willingness to "just follow orders" is alive and well today, the same as it was in the past. If martial law gets tough, this sort of killing will be common during the early period for months on end, or more. It is a sad fact of life that a certain percentage of all police-type forces are peopled with individuals that love the power to bust the chops of local folks.

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), August 26, 1999.

The real problem here isn't so much the cover-up, as it is individual accountability. Here you have grown men working for a government agency, who have their own sisters and brothers, wifes and children, and they take no accountability for their personal actions. They shoot to kill, and feel immune because they wear a uniform or carry a badge. The scary part is the thought that possibly our own members of the Uniformed Services, (also for many of us) fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, or our children, could follow orders of a corrupt government and kill, if ordered to do so, members of their own communities with no fear of individual impunity.

-- Marc (bwritback@cs.com), August 26, 1999.

I agree Linda. The government continually deceives the American people and, in my opinion, we are TIRED of being deceived. All the government officials need to do is look at what happened in Minnesota and the election of Jesse Ventura. The common folk said it loud and clear. ENOUGH of those stuffed shirt slippery suckers who call themselves politicians. We can't trust them and NOW we have an alternative. Particularly in light of this WACO fraud, I'd say that the chances of a reform party candidate or other party candidate taking the upcoming presidential election are quite strong. Hopefully Minnesota will set a trend for the rest of the nation to follow.

-- Diane (DDEsq2002@juno.com), August 26, 1999.

I read Warren Beatty is considering a career change to President of the United States.

Would anyone here vote for him?

wciv.com I think it was...

-- J (jart5@bellsouth.net), August 26, 1999.

Warren Beatty F****CCCCCCKKKKK NOOOO! Of course we must ask him how many women he has screwed, and how man grams of cocaine he has up his nose, and if he has ever had nasal reconstruction due to cocaine use, and if he has any kind of veneral disease. Get Real! We are doomed!

-- F*******CKKK NO (F***CKKKNO@F****CKNO.com), August 26, 1999.

Where has the investigative press been all along? There were lots of underground reports of wrongdoings in Texas for years. The mainstream press toed the party line, became nothing more than a dissemination media for official news releases and advertising. Shame on them for their ongoing willing compliance.

-- Spanky (spamfree@nospam.net), August 27, 1999.

Not worthy of yet another OT thread but now there's radar evidence that TWA flight 800 may have been brought down by a missile here.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), August 27, 1999.