The Boykin Affair

Time ^ | Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003 | MARK THOMPSON

[RJCogburn]

The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas.

[wildwood]

what's interesting to ME is all the ratty stuff the dems were saying in church TODAY. of course, they are all allowed to say whatever they want and run for prez. they can trash the whole country, have the ministers trash the country in all these political speeches, but no one suggests the tax exemption for the church will be yanked.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Well, then maybe one answer is for our agents to visit some of those churches and record an report back factually what goes on.

Then we host it here.

Then we can embarrass the Stupid Party into using it against the Evil Party when the latter next attempt to invoke their double-standard.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas."


And I recall that the type of gas that was actually used was a type outlawed for use in warfare against enemy troops.

Perhaps Bush has found his WMDs?

[dts32041]

I that was WC Clark's job, I mean he supplied the weapons, but no apaches once again.

[John Beresford Tipton]

" that was WC Clark's job, I mean he supplied the weapons"

I don't recall that IG Farben had a valid defense that it just supplied the Zyklon-B.

[sinkspur]

The "cringe factor" on Boykin is very high.

[RJCogburn]

"The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas."

And I recall that the type of gas that was actually used was a type outlawed for use in warfare against enemy troops.

Perhaps Bush has found his WMDs?

Or perhaps it was the wrong sort of religious group. At any rate General Boykin likely could have found a black streak in the sky during the Waco murderous conflagration.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

Who reads TIME anymore. . . it's really no better than the NYTIMES. It's just as biased but they have no new news only old news.

[dts32041]

The choice of weapons always goes to the top.

If asked I would have advised on weapons also, used the same forbiden stuff in training all the time.

WC provided the weapons, and clinton authorized them, so maybe he should be on trial for his religious beliefs.

BTW WAC0 had nothing to do with religious beliefs, it had everything to do with failing to pay 200.00 in taxes.

[RJCogburn]

WAC0 had nothing to do with religious beliefs, it had everything to do with failing to pay 200.00 in taxes.

Helluva reason to burn a bunch of kids to death, isn't it?

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Helluva reason to burn a bunch of kids to death, isn't it?"

Maybe *his* god was pissed at Koresh's god, and told Boykin to recommend outlawed gasses, that would make it understandible. </sarcasm>

[EternalVigilance]

The "cringe factor" on Boykin is very high.

Right. Especially if you're a soldier of Islam.

[dts32041]

Ain't it what you would expect from the slave masters?

[John Beresford Tipton]

"The "cringe factor" on Boykin is very high.
Right. Especially if you're a soldier of Islam."

Those kids cringed, cried and crisped, but I suppose you think it was okay, because they were Christians?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Re: "The "cringe factor" on Boykin is very high."

I like that. He's the one. He's the one for our Man on Horseback.

This is the first time in more than thirty years that I could put a name on the slot.

[EternalVigilance]

Those kids cringed, cried and crisped, but I suppose you think it was okay, because they were Christians?

That's not what sinkspur was talking about; that isn't what I was referencing; and therefore you have no idea what you are talking about.

[EternalVigilance]

So, you're blaming Boykin for Waco?

[John Beresford Tipton]

He recommended the gas.

[EternalVigilance]

If you're an officer and some high official in the administration you work for calls you for advice, you kinda have an obligation to give it, don't you think?