Why do you think it’s a pretense? I can’t actually be open-minded? With little actual evidence to date, don’t you think it’s a little early to be shutting minds down?
Does the way the legal system handled this look fishy? Absolutely. Do I know what mistakes or crimes were committed by the cops? No, and neither do you. About all there is now is suspicion.
But numerous people take that suspicion, run with it and decide that they know in detail what happened and why.
Can’t anybody else see this is exactly what happened with Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown? People decided they know what happened, before any real evidence was presented, then when the evidence differed from what they’d decided, it was taken as proof of a coverup.
I was out of the country when the Martin thing broke, and the overseas news presented it as a simple case of a white racist thug hunting down and killing an innocent black child. I believed it, silly me.
I’ll just sit over here and pretend to be open-minded about the Waco case till evidence is presented.
Comparing it to cases involving one or two people and he-said she-said cop malfeasance, is wrong headed.
This was CLEAR mass abuse of police power, wherein 117 people without any criminal histories at all, and another 60 with criminal records ranging from misdemeanor arrests many years old to a small handful individuals with convictions on serious violent charges -- ALL of those people were immediately and harshly punished without due process, their financial, professional, and personal lives SEVERELY harmed and damaged permanently with a now-existent "criminal record" and felony charges of murder and "gang" conspiracy to commit it.
That is not opinion, it is not speculation, IT IS A FACT ALREADY IN EVIDENCE.
You can afford to wait for the Courts to "sort it all out." This time. But if you are at all active in any clubs, then next time or the time after that, you may be the one languishing in jail while your reputation and income-earning ability is "legally" destroyed, while "sensible, level-headed" people tell you to be "open minded" in case the cops were wrong and arrested you wrongly.
WHY? Because Waco has already established that Civil Servants can get away with mass abuse of power SCOT FREE, and only risk paying any consequences YEARS down the road. Those Civil Servants apparently have very different rights that thee and me, Sherman, and it is VERY dangerous to thee and me.
Wake up.