Only, in Waco, the compound leader did not completely have the moral high ground - not really. He was a sexual abuser of children; a fact that is undeniable.
Sheriff Joe's cause, on the other hand, is unimpeachable.
I will vote on the side of upholding the rule of US law.
Go Joe!
So, you think that that was justification for attacking in the middle of the night and eventually frying 90 people who, BTW, were pretty much innocent of any wrong doing. The arrest of the leader could have been done away from the compound as he went into town quite frequently. There was no reason for the no knock raid and the subsequent destruction and slaughter of the 90 people, not to mention the agents who were justifiably killed by the compounds inhabitants as the agents were mistaken for criminals, which they actually were at that point. The agents of course were merely following orders(aren't they always).
>>I keep thinking Waco, but I hope it doesn’t get that bad!!
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>Only, in Waco, the compound leader did not completely have the moral high ground - not really. He was a sexual abuser of children; a fact that is undeniable.
I don’t know about that. With the “flexibility” of words and their meanings {1984’s Newspeak quackworthy is a good example} you can do a lot of damage; it has all the actual effect of re-defining the words.
A recent bill/law involving illegal immigrants and their “children” had “children” defined as something like “aged 26 and below.”
The common-language of ‘pedophile’ is “someone who has sexual intercourse with children.”
So, you could combine the two to make everyone who has a spouse 26 and below into pedophiles/sexual-predators/”sexual abusers of children.”
But even so, does a violation of the law negate/invalidate the protection offered by the law in some other area?
Before answering ‘yes’ consider that the legal protection against, say, the police taking all the money from your wallet (4th Amendment) would cease to exist for even a jaywalker.
>Sheriff Joe’s cause, on the other hand, is unimpeachable.
Agreed.
That's a sick position.
There is no excuse for that violent murderous action which killed the children it pretended to protect...(demolishing buildings with innocent people living in them.)
Janet Reno, the top federal agents and military officers involved should be tried and sentenced to death if convicted. Janet Reno said she took full responsibility...there is no statute of limitations on murder.
In the documentary "Waco: Rules of Engagement", the sheriff (I think) of Waco said that they could find no legal evidence that Koresh was guilty of this. Paraphrasing, he did say that in Texas it's legal for 14 year olds to get married with their parents consent and if he did have sex with 14 year olds it would fall under this category. I don't condone it, but the law is the law.