Well. This really is no surprise to me.
it follows suit that in order to recruit new bodies in to the ranks, you must purvey the message that you will be protected. This is a reaffirmation of that premise.
Has anyone on the gov side of this ever been held accountable? You already know the answer to this. As do I.
Mr. Horiuchi also realizes that he WILL be called into action again to do this same thing, simply because... that's what he does, and agrees to do.
"Soldiers" just following orders is the worst, cheapest lie around. A moral, and personal conviction has to be part of the equation.
Without it, we're all in deep sh!t!!
Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from this though...
If we, you and I, are ever in the same situations, where will our minds go? Will we say, "To hell with 'em, they're just a bunch of murdering pigs, and deserve to drop for what they've done". That's an individual choice. I've already made mine, but won't elaborate here, at this time.
As for whether Vicki Weaver deserved to die, no she didn't. She didn't commit the alledged crimes. Yet she was executed for something. As was her son.
This was a test that we Americans have failed, horribly! The test moved on south to Texas, and we failed there as well.
The ATF was there for the arrest of Randy Weaver, after placing him under survellance for 18 months. I wonder how much that exercise cost the taxpayers? NOT a very good tradeoff was it? Why the hell don't the beancounters raid the ATF? A surefire way to place them under some for of control...
Best Regards,
Don
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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms;
History shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
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"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, and destroy their rugged- ness.
Get control of all means of publicity, and thereby get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities.
Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance."
Vladimir Ilich Lenin, former leader of USSR