KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:
and I'm NOT a pedo. everyone knows i've got a wheelchair fetish.
GAM (The Kilted One) wrote:Hahahaha: ATF fired first.
Hahahaha wrote:GAM (The Kilted One) wrote:Hahahaha: ATF fired first.
Well ya, that is my point. The Branch Davidians, regardless of their strange behaviour, were victoms. Being different is not illegal.
PAX
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:
and I'm NOT a pedo. everyone knows i've got a wheelchair fetish.
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:
and I'm NOT a pedo. everyone knows i've got a wheelchair fetish.
john harrington wrote:Hahahaha wrote:GAM (The Kilted One) wrote:Hahahaha: ATF fired first.
Well ya, that is my point. The Branch Davidians, regardless of their strange behaviour, were victoms. Being different is not illegal.
PAX
No but havind a cache of illegal guns is... If they had nothing to hide they would have let the ATF follow thru with their warrant. I wanst saying weater the ATF was right or wrong I was just saying that theres "Baptists" desrve the same fate. So back on topic guys.
Hahahaha wrote:I'll get back on topic just as soon as we clear this up...Just to "clear things up a little further"...you need to stop painting the Branch Davidians as victims. The ATF showed up at their door with a legally executed search warrant. David Koresh and company responded by firing on the officers and killing 4 of them. I don't care if that warrant was for taxes, murder or a @!#$ parking ticket. There is a right way to do things and a wrong way. I don't care if you agree with it or not, you don't fire on the police or oyu're gonna get @!#$ up. What's next? You gonna start shooting when you get pulled over cause you don't agree with the radar gun?
The ATF had a warrant to see *IF* they had a *LEGAL* weapon that they did not pay a *TAX* on. They were never accused of having any illegal weapons, they were accused of possibly possesing a rifle that should have had a certain tax paid on that they didn't pay at the point of purchase. There was never any proof that they actually had the weapon and 85 people were burned to death because they didn't pay a tax on a gun that they may or may not have posessed.
The Davidians even hung a white flag on the front door but were murdered anyway. Then the Murray Fedual building which housed all of the paperwork mysteriously blew up. Itial reports were that 3 bombs planted in the parking garage had not gon off and explosives experts were inside disarming them. 24 hours later it was a truck bomb and McVey did it with Nicols help. McVey went from trial to execution faster than any prisoner I can remember, no appeal.
I wouldn't defend the people behind that one, they were definately up to no good.
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JimmyZ wrote:Just to "clear things up a little further"...you need to stop painting the Branch Davidians as victims. The ATF showed up at their door with a legally executed search warrant.
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David Koresh and company responded by firing on the officers and killing 4 of them.
Quote:What happens when they start firing first, Jimmy?
I don't care if that warrant was for taxes, murder or a @!#$ parking ticket. There is a right way to do things and a wrong way. I don't care if you agree with it or not, you don't fire on the police or oyu're gonna get @!#$ up.
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What's next? You gonna start shooting when you get pulled over cause you don't agree with the radar gun?
Quote:That's fine... the problem is that the FBI and ATF were NOT there to serve a warrant on those activities. If that were so, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that the FBI/ATF would have been able to get the ordinance that they had. The simple fact is that the originating warrant was to search for and seize any and all DRUG MANUFACTURING equipment and arrest those responsible for it.
Now, as for the details of the warrant that you describe as "just about taxes"...that's not entirely true either. That is the tripe that anti-government and militia-affiliated websites would ahve you believe. There was an extensive investigation underway regarding whether the Branch Davidians were MANUFACTURING automatic weapons. While that is NOT prohibited in the US, you have to be licensed to do so and you ahve to pay proper fees and taxes associated with sales. No license, no taxes, no proper records of sales. That is why a warrant was issued.
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Then there's the standoff and fire. That has been exhaustively investigated by everyone from the FBI to the ATF to several independent commissions and scores of investigative journalists. All, except the most radically militant few, have come to the same conclusion...that the Branch Davidians as a group were responsible for what happened there that day.
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So NOW we can get back on topic. A special place in hell is reserved for these Westboro freaks.