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From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Message-ID: <1993Apr21.172742.5337@dct.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Apr 93 17:27:42 +0100
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In article <1r3j2k$da2@menudo.uh.edu>, HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
> 
>   The problem with the FBI as a monolithic entity doing it is that it requires
> *everybody* involved to keep their mouths shut.  While they tended to behave 
> like total idiots, that does not make them homocidal maniacs, either.  And if
> it was one nutcase agent, then it serves no purpose to blame the whole agency.

A great deal of documentation exists on exactly that phenomenon. Especially
regarding Vietnam and the Mai Lai (sp?) massacre

Not that I'm suggesting that they started it on purpose but even if they
now know that they accidentally started (or contributed to it) you can
be sure the initial reaction is to lie. Remember the Iranian airliner
which the US navy mistook for a fighter and shot down?
-- 
Alan Greig                            Janet: A.Greig@uk.ac.dct
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         ** Never underestimate the power of human stupidity **
