MKM
Posted on 09/10/2001 5:16:12 PM PDT by kattracks
Does former Attorney General Janet Reno think her appearance Thursday in Waco, Texas, will be a good photo opportunity to bolster her bizarre decision to run for governor in Florida? She might be surprised.
Young Conservatives of Texas and Citizens Organization for Public Safety announced plans today to stage an information campaign and protest when Reno speaks at Baylor University.
On Wednesday, the groups will hold a "teach-in" (nicely appropriating a term from 1960s leftists) and screen Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Mike McNulty's "Waco: A New Revelation" and, after a question-and-answer session, his new short film, "The F.L.I.R. Project," which focuses on whether Reno's federal agents fired on Branch Davidians as they tried to leave their compound.
McNulty stated today: "While Reno may hope to gain politically from using this lecture as an attempt to put behind her the tragic and deadly 1993 raid she ordered, we will not let the truth be a casualty of Ms. Reno's political ambition. That is why the Citizens Organization for Public Safety and the Young Conservatives of Texas have joined together in an educational campaign to bear witness and make sure that history is not rewritten.
"We are holding this teach-in to share our understanding of the truth of these tragic events. Our hope is that, after this presentation, people will be able to ask intelligent questions of Ms. Reno on the following night."
Saturday's Waco Herald-Tribune quoted McNulty as saying: "I think there's a certain sense of moral outrage of Janet Reno launching her gubernatorial campaign on the backs of the dead Davidian children."
McNulty told the newspaper that Baylor refused his offer to debate Reno about the Davidian standoff and deaths.
"They weren't interested in that," he said. "They were interested in having her come in and speak and do the polite hand-holding, 'Isn't this wonderful, she's confronting her demons.' I don't think so. I think she has to answer some questions."
YCT Chairman Chris Allen stated today: "The Waco tragedy stands as one of the most outrageous law enforcement abuses in American history, and we hope Ms. Reno will finally answer for it Thursday evening. Many Americans forget that most of the Branch Davidians were not guilty of any crimes and were simply exercising their constitutional right to bear arms. The Davidians never hurt anyone else or even threatened to do so and government allegations of child abuse inside the compound were never proven. We are using Reno's lecture as an opportunity to inform the Baylor community about such facts."
YCT Vice Chairman Marc Levin referred to a Reno speech in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 1991. "Janet Reno is hell-bent on taking away the guns of law-abiding Americans. She has stated: 'The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.'
"Ms. Reno needs to familiarize herself with the research by Professor John Lott showing that legal gun ownership deters crime."
For more information, Baylor's number is 1-800-BAYLORU.
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There are more definitions of 'bolster' that describe this bizarre tank's attempt at being human than there are that describe a slim pillow.
Bizzaro World ... Good to see you, Tank ... Hello!
I certainly hope so!
On the other hand, I'd like to know where all these now activist Texans were hiding out
WHEN THE DAMN PLACE BURNED TO THE GROUND ON TELEVISION!
Answer that question and I'll feel a lot better.
OK, maybe not so much better but at least I'd know.
Or not.
MKM
This is not a tactical error; it is an expression of contempt.
Think of Clinton smiling at us from Tienenman Square.
Won't do them any good. Janet's too stupid to understand.
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