• SwingingTheLamp
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    6 months ago

    I see a cult with a fortified compound and armed soldiers, with multiple missed paroles and a history of armed violence going back over a decade. If they’re not terrorist then what the fuck are they?

    Sounds awfully familiar.

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      6 months ago

      Thank goodness it wasn’t the same scale as that event, but at least the FBI attempted to negotiate and staved off a full offensive until 51 days had passed. If the Philadelphia police had shown that kind of respect and restraint then things might have ended a lot differently for the MOVE members.

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        6 months ago

        And yet the Waco siege is still a rallying cry for anti-government groups accusing the FBI and DEA of unjust, violent overreaction, while the MOVE bombing is not. Huh, I wonder what the difference is? /s

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            6 months ago

            That’s possible, but that doesn’t explain the same feeling about the Ruby Ridge incident.

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            6 months ago

            let’s not kid ourselves, it’s not the body count, it’s the same reason they don’t cite Tulsa nor Blair Mountain

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                6 months ago

                they don’t you say? so none of them involved Government force, and not for the better?

                but let’s be honest, Tulsa just had mainly black victims and was supported by the government (this is fine)

                Blair Mountain just had mainly socialists as victims and was supported by the government (this is also fine)

                but Waco, those were upstanding whites who refused the tyrannical mandate of the government (real victims)

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                    6 months ago

                    because this has nothing to do with concentration camps, and everything to do with the American government and government related massacres in America?

                    I mean, if you want to bring concentration camps into this, we can start talking about why a majority of the American prison population is black and are used as life long slave labor.