RIP Janet Reno

[Drakken]

 

[Phillip V]

Did she ever issue any statements about Donald Trump?  A quick google search did not bring up anything.

[Drakken]

Since she has died of Parkinson, I don't think she could.

[Caliga]

Since she has died of Parkinson, I don't think she could.

Yep.  You usually cannot talk in end-stage Parkinsons.

RIP Janet Reno.  Almost as cool as Jesse Reno.

[crazy canuck]

RIP

[Martinus]

So, Branch Davidians - a genuine threat or framed liberty-loving victims of a fascist state? Discuss.

[crazy canuck]

So, Branch Davidians - a genuine threat or framed liberty-loving victims of a fascist state? Discuss.

Stay classy Marty

[CountDeMoney]

My all-time fave-rave AG.

[CountDeMoney]

So, Branch Davidians - a genuine threat or framed liberty-loving victims of a fascist state? Discuss.

Stay classy Marty

He's just pissy that Reno didn't burn down Wyoming over Matthew Shepard.  Because he's a silly fuck.

[Drakken]

So, Branch Davidians - a genuine threat or framed liberty-loving victims of a fascist state? Discuss.

Jesus, her body has not been cremated yet. 

We should asked instead, if she should have been a recurring character in Ally McBeal.

[Martinus]

Sorry, I just encountered this opinion (i.e. that they were victims) very recently, and was quite surprised as I thought it was pretty much universally held that they were a death cult. So I was wondering if there is any substance to this claim outside of the tinfoil hat crowd.

[Drakken]

Sorry, I just encountered this opinion (i.e. that they were victims) very recently, and was quite surprised as I thought it was pretty much universally held that they were a death cult. So I was wondering if there is any substance to this claim outside of the tinfoil hat crowd.

No one outside the tinfoil hat crowd (and anti-government groups) claim they were victims of anyone other than David Koresh. In fact, had not children been allowed out during the talks between the Federal authorities and the Davidians, everyone in there would have died in that compound.

However, we now know that Janet Reno was misinformed by the FBI about what was going on inside the compound to press her to approve an immediate final assault, despite the fact that the Davidians in the compound were heavily armed and not willing to surrender at all.

Over the next several months, Janet Reno's reason for approving the final gas attack varied from her initial claim that the FBI had told her that Koresh was sexually abusing children and beating babies (the FBI later denied evidence of child abuse during the standoff) to her claim that Linda Thompson and her one-woman "Unorganized Militia of the United States" was on the way to Waco to aid or attack Koresh.[61]

[The Brain]

I miss the days when the government played Waco-Mole with actual citizens. Now white people can rise against the government and there will not be any consequences at all.

[CountDeMoney]

However, we now know that Janet Reno was misinformed by the FBI about what was going on inside the compound to press her to approve an immediate final assault, despite the fact that the Davidians in the compound were heavily armed and not willing to surrender at all.

Over the next several months, Janet Reno's reason for approving the final gas attack varied from her initial claim that the FBI had told her that Koresh was sexually abusing children and beating babies (the FBI later denied evidence of child abuse during the standoff) to her claim that Linda Thompson and her one-woman "Unorganized Militia of the United States" was on the way to Waco to aid or attack Koresh.[61]

The hostage negotiations team was becoming increasingly concerned with Koresh's despondency and his constant refusal of the FBI's offers of access to media, as he had earlier requested, in order to complete his prophetic writings from God.  They had every reason to believe he was cruising for a mass suicide by that point.  It was only a matter of time, so they went in.

[Razgovory]

No one outside the tinfoil hat crowd (and anti-government groups) claim they were victims of anyone other than David Koresh.

I wish this was true.