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From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Date: 21 Apr 1993 22:47:56 GMT
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In article <94102@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5311b@prism.gatech.EDU  
(BHATTACHARYA,ABHIJIT) writes:
> In article <1r4ef7$408@transfer.stratus.com> cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D.  
Tavares) writes:
> 
> >Do you think a $200 tax evasion justifies an armed assault by the government
> >with 100 armed men in trailers, orchestrated character assassination, noise
> >torture, and a holocaust?
> 
> I doubt if Koresh had let the BATF have a look inside his place as they 
> intended to do, "orchestrated character assassination, noise torture, and
> a holocaust" would never have come to pass.
> 
> The BD's killed members of the BATF on the first day. "Orchestrated character
> assassination and noise torture" seem like a small retribution.  

Does the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty" have ANY meaning anymore?

> The use
> of tanks is quesionable however.
> 
> 
> 
> --Abhijit
> -- 
> BHATTACHARYA,ABHIJIT
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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