Perhaps you could you explain the 'poorly' doctored photo on your FR profile page misrepresenting the scene at WACO.
Perhaps you could you explain the 'poorly' doctored photo on your FR profile page misrepresenting the scene at WACO.
I challenge you do categorically state what is doctored on the photo. Or does it turn your stomach to see AMERICAN tanks fighting AMERICANS on AMERICAN soil.
In your dream world this would be a yearly occurrence.
Take a long hard look at the picture!
I may believe that there was at least one [1] M1A1 there that day. I am persuaded there was but I'd feel better seeing an image that didn't originate from a site with an ax to grind.
As to the image that began this debate...it is indeed doctored...
Let's compare...
The top image shows an M1A1 Abrams tank sitting outside the compound. In the image there is a pole running from the top of the image to the bottom. It is sitting alone while a Bradley and a modified M60 maneuver on the compound.
The second image [poorly doctored] shows two Bradley fighting vehicles an Abrams and a modified 60 all sitting next two each other. And the pole is not in the image [it would need to be removed in order to cut in the modified 60].
The clarity of the top image versus the Gaussian blurring of the bottom image is a red flag. The blurring is commonplace when doctoring images...the bluring must be full image in order to subdue the blurring around the cut & pasted edges [which imo is also poorly done].
There is a legitimate chance that all four of these vehicles could've been lined up next to one another, there is a legitimate chance that the second [doctored] image was taken from an angle that excluded the pole.
I wish I cold trust the motivation of the sites displaying these images, but I don't. Both have an ax to grind with the Government as a whole versus the reality of a Liberal Administration that carried out the siege at Waco.
I am bothered by the possibility of having Abrams tanks at Waco. There is absolutely nothing in the vehicles profile that demanded it be at Waco. With that said, I don't put it past a Liberal administration and kiss *** bureaucrats [sp?] with a desire to impress anyone for personal gain employing them for no competent reason.
Using Waco as an example of evil government to be raised in a thread concerning post 9/11 America versus what it really was, a 90's Liberal Administration following their own doctrine of tyrannical rule from on high, is a sign of desperation from anti-authoritarians who have gotten more mileage out the siege at Waco than any Big Government design could've.