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From: pspod@hooch.lerc.nasa.gov (Steve Podleski)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Waco, they did it.    ( MASADA )
Date: 21 Apr 1993 17:02:23 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>msn@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Mike 'HK G3ZF Full-Auto' Newsome) writes:
>>> I'm sick to my stomach as I write this.  The BD compound
>>> is on fire, and will burn to the ground in minutes.
>I used exactly this one-word reply, to suggest a likely ending to
>the siege several weeks ago. But like Masada, this wasn't entirely
>a government action: The defenders held out as long as they could,
>and then killed themselves, their families and their children 
>rather than surrender. Israel calls the action of the Zelots
>"heroic", and trains their army to follow this example. Now that 
>someone has repeated this action in modern times, what do we call it?

Liberals and supporters of Clinton say that costs made the action 
necessary.

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