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Both sides are painfully aware of the bloody ends of federal seiges at Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and both are trying to prevent the same from happening in Jordan, Montana. Unlike at Ruby Ridge, where a seige ended in the death of a 14-year-old boy and his mother, federal agents are acting with remarkable prudence...
...booze and drugs into the bunkers of a Colorado religious cult. On first seeing this ramshackle structure, he thinks "this would go up like bales of hay if it ever started to burn." Sure enough, in a sequence closely modeled on the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff and tragedy in Waco, Texas, the torches arrive...
McVeigh has claimed he visited the Branch Davidian compound near Waco during the federal siege that ended in fire and death on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. "It was very poorly handled," he says. Was it Waco that set him off on a path through Arizona and on to Kansas, where he allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the bomb, and then to Oklahoma City, where eyewitnesses saw him on the morning of the explosion? Will his trial, sometime in 1996, exonerate him? And if not, will it somehow make comprehensible the mind...
...alleged bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was reportedly motivated by the mishandling of the federal government assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. If Ben-Shachar is to eliminate the possibility of speech ever causing violence, all sources of news therefore should have been censored, even before anyone was aware of how the siege would end. It is difficult to see how any communication at all could take place in Ben-Shachar's regime, as someone somewhere might take some element of some speech as a reason to engage in some act of violence. If this is Ben-Shachar...
...MESSAGE IS TO THE PIOUSLY PREACHing Johnnie Cochran and others: "Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering you hindered" (Luke 11: 52). CAROL BERRY, Waco, Texas...