Word: waco
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Coloring the hostility is a large dose of the paranoia that has seeped into American political discourse over the past year, especially since the Oklahoma City bombing. These days it seems no conversation in Nye County can conclude without some reference to Waco and Ruby Ridge. "What these have done," says Carver, "is show how the oppressive bureaucrats think they can run over the tops of the American people." He thinks both incidents contributed to the presence of guns among the spectators the day he bulldozed the road. He is convinced federal agents are monitoring his travels. During a speech...
...were found to have been deliberately uncoupled; and a message was found at the crash site from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo--a previously unknown group--that assailed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the agencies' roles in the controversial Waco and Ruby Ridge standoffs. FBI investigators launched a broad investigation and refused to speculate on who might be responsible for the crime, or the motive...
Sabotage may have caused an Amtrak train to derail in Arizona Monday morning. Two notes, from a group calling itself the "Sons of the Gestapo," said the tampering had been done in "retaliation for Waco and the siege of Ruby Ridge." One person was killed and 65 wounded as several cars left the tracks and fell 30 feet down a desert ravine 60 miles southwest of Phoenix. Engineers report seeing something on the tracks just before the accident. Local authorities say 29 rail spikes that fasten the track to the cross-ties had been removed from a 19-foot section...
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...
John Magaw, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, has backed off comments that the FBI bungled the 1993 standoff in Waco. Monday, Magaw said: "I believe that had we been left in charge of the Waco incident, we would not have burned that building." Tuesday, after a talking-to by Janet Reno and FBI director Louis Freeh: "I need to make perfectly clear David Koresh, not Attorney General Reno or the FBI, was responsible for the fire...