Word: waco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headquarters for the Freemen's crooked amalgam of extremism and thievery. It's also the first major testing ground for federal law enforcement in the nervous aftermath of two disasters--the deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian inferno near Waco, Texas, in which more than 75 people were killed. In its handling of such standoffs, the Justice Department is at pains to re-establish the line between force and recklessness. The word this time is play it cool and play it down. Attorney General Janet Reno, who took heat for approving...
This concerted effort to act calmly and rationally is born of fear. But that fear and new-found sense of caution may be the only positive effect of Waco and Ruby Ridge...
...sincerely hope that fear reaches a few people who don't seem horrified enough. One of the Freemen now in custody warned the crowd that this could be worse than Waco...
...addition, the federal government, smarting from damaging Congressional investigations into the Waco and Ruby Ridge tragedies, has finally decided to stick to the rules. This time, the rules of engagement are stable and the orders are coming from a single source...
Since the freemen aren't wanted on firearm charges, the ATF is conspicuously absent. Those agents who actually fired the guns and made the worst of the decisions at Ruby Ridge and Waco aren't there to force violence with their rash actions...