Frank Haertlein
Moderator
You know, I think a lot of people have forgotten what the Feds did to instigate the whole incident at Waco. An investigative reporter, Jerry Seper, writes in this morning's edition of the Times that the House Government Reform Committee also wants to know why BATF didn't arrest David Koresh
off the church property.
Well, the answer is simple. clinton wanted to make a statement about guns. The Branch Davidians were suspected of having automatic weapons (none were later proven to have existed). What better way to enrage the public and demonstrate his need for more gun control than to stage a big raid for the TV cameras?
So you get BATF to go on the raid with a television news crew in tow (which is exactly what BATF did) so that you can capture the whole thing for the American people and make a big news issue out of it against guns. Of course you also have to invent some charges like child molestation to make it look good.......just to show everybody that they were a bunch of kooks, right?
They could have taken Koresh during his regular visits to the guitar shop in town but then how would that look if you wanted a big gun bust for public consumption? It wouldn't have been a big gun bust to take him in town. The timing was just right for the latest round of gun control bills/proposals..........just like many of clinton's military actions have had great timing. clinton is a real scum bucket just like the democrats who stabbed the American people in the back by not voting to get rid of the bastard.
BATF really screwed up here. Instead of getting Koresh while he was in town they thought they would make a big show out of it. Agents got killed as a result of their own screw-ups and miscalculations. And for what? To demonstrate the need for more gun control by the clinton administration?
That, gentlemen, is the bottom line!!
[This message has been edited by Frank Haertlein (edited August 31, 1999).]
off the church property.
Well, the answer is simple. clinton wanted to make a statement about guns. The Branch Davidians were suspected of having automatic weapons (none were later proven to have existed). What better way to enrage the public and demonstrate his need for more gun control than to stage a big raid for the TV cameras?
So you get BATF to go on the raid with a television news crew in tow (which is exactly what BATF did) so that you can capture the whole thing for the American people and make a big news issue out of it against guns. Of course you also have to invent some charges like child molestation to make it look good.......just to show everybody that they were a bunch of kooks, right?
They could have taken Koresh during his regular visits to the guitar shop in town but then how would that look if you wanted a big gun bust for public consumption? It wouldn't have been a big gun bust to take him in town. The timing was just right for the latest round of gun control bills/proposals..........just like many of clinton's military actions have had great timing. clinton is a real scum bucket just like the democrats who stabbed the American people in the back by not voting to get rid of the bastard.
BATF really screwed up here. Instead of getting Koresh while he was in town they thought they would make a big show out of it. Agents got killed as a result of their own screw-ups and miscalculations. And for what? To demonstrate the need for more gun control by the clinton administration?
That, gentlemen, is the bottom line!!
[This message has been edited by Frank Haertlein (edited August 31, 1999).]