We certainly can agree that during what’s known as the Indian Wars, the US Calvary did some very brutal and inhuman things to Native Americans. Part of that was a carry over from the Civil War with jerks like Custer given free-rein and part in retribution for smaller scale atrocities conducted by some native American tribes against USA settlers. Wounded Knee being one of the worst.
Wounded Knee and Waco Twin Peaks are vastly different situations. The Waco police immediately turned the post Twin Peaks investigation over to the Texas Rangers. The Rangers are as ethical and as Constitutionally abiding LEO group as exists, period. The Rangers would have spoken up had the report given by Waco police not been extremely close to factual.
There was no police massacre at Twin Peaks. Had the cops not taken whatever measures they did, there would very likely have been a massacre with many more shot and killed bike gang members by rival bike gang members that day.
Considering you did not address my points in post 90, I repeat:
What’s up with the constant bringing up My Lai? There seems to be some fixation with that atrocious incident.
Its not really called for nor assisting getting a legitimate point across. A bit of bullying? (Which does seem to be a much too common thread running through many of these Waco bike gang shootout threads)
I have a question you may be able to answer regarding the continuous drone of “their Constitutional Rights were violated”, exactly which of those rights did the Waco cops violate? Were the bike gangers not given due process?
From a non bike gang supporter, it seems that taking the totality of the shooting in a public place with innocent bystanders, the great number dead and wounded, combined with a record of bike gang threats to Waco police, combined with criminal records of many charged and combined with what number of persons at the scene who were armed who did not have CHL, the high bonds were necessary to protect the public and the bike gangs from one another.
If you want to rely on the fall-back position of making personal attacks, such as slinging My Lai at anyone who dares disagree, then your argument defending bike gangs will continue to lose ground as well as damage the Free Republic forum itself.
Boo freaking hoo. Sorry, I didn’t bring a hanky.
Like I said, I have zero tolerance for those who tolerate police massacres, or excuse them, or rationalize them.
Intellectual laziness would be my best guess x-spurt. Even out of context...it's just easier to throw up some 'propaganda' art' than it would be to engage in a serious discussion.
The fact that he's borrowing tropes from the old anti-war left is...ironic.