State of the Union 2016

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Not news w/o cleavage, innit? And this news shows some real (that is, non-comix) cleavage between FBI treatment of good-ol-boys and various less well protected others.

The federal govt burned alive 80 or so white Branch Davidians in Waco TX in 1993, including whole families. I think they have played this correctly. The “patriots” have been denounced by the Mormon church, by the ranchers who had to return to jail, the nominal cause celebre, and by the people of Burns, OR, incl more ranchers. They have become a laughing-stock, and will probably wind up being arrested with no shots fired.

I”m not defending the blatant racism of US law enforcement, but I think the feds did the right thing in this case.

The Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 Waco siege, involving many of the same agencies and even the same personnel, caused public outcry and fueled the widening of the militia movement.