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...AGENCY IN LONDON LAST WEEK was filming a TV commercial for Greenpeace. Directed by Hollywood horrormeister Roger Corman (A Bucket of Blood, Swamp Women), it opens with a mother beckoning to her children. At first they surround her lovingly, lavishing hugs and kisses on her. Then they turn savage, scratching and dragging her to the ground, where she is left battered and bleeding. The heavy-handed metaphor is meant to represent Mother Earth's treatment by humans, but it might just as well serve as a caution for Greenpeace itself...
...guess I'm just a little silly for thinking that Weaver's failure to appear in court for a minor weapons violation was grounds for the government to surround his home and shoot at unarmed members of his family...
Randy Weaver believed the federal government would one day surround his home and kill his family...
First of all, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) should no longer exist. These were the "professionals" who decided to surround the cabin with armed agents for nothing more than a failure to appear in court. These are also the people who showed little restraint in Waco...
Despite ongoing peace talks, sporadic fighting continues in Chechnya, where rebels killed nine Russian soldiers today. "This should go on for some time as a low-intensity conflict," Sally Donnelly reports from Moscow. "It's like trying to surround Texas. Militarily, the Russians have got the area pretty much under control. But disarming all these people will take some time...