Tyranny - wherever - is still tyranny.

Submitted by Texposé (United Kingdom), Sep 8, 2004 at 13:51

Um hum.

How about botched and disgusting?

Botched intelligence (a one word oxymoron)?
Botched 'rescues' (what fun)?
Bothched 'official versions' (tell us another)?

What they (the media and the murderous state) called those 90-odd poor, freedom loving, God fearing, non-violent (until attacked) machine-gunned, gassed and then roasted -men, women and children at Waco, who were just creating their own self-sustaining, self-sufficient, family and religion based life-style at Waco - was just as bad.

Frankly, the botched:
intelligence,
negotiations, and-
shabbily white-washed
debacles that surrounded both cases (notwithstanding the OKC plus 9/11 and hysteria as further proof (at the very least, of murderous neglect and complacency) of tyrannical state machines - revealing the gross failings of whole systems - as evolved.

And, it is only made worse by lap-dog, biased and ill-informed reporters and commentators (more interested in their own egos and carping at each other).

The blame game always takes at least two sets of losers - with more hangers-on.

Tyranny and slaughter - right, left, center, foreign or domestic, political or religious - is still tyranny and slaughter - no matter how much anyone spins it, dresses it up or slices it.

Texposé
PS. The Russians in Chechnya, and the USA in Iraq, are both finding that the oil plundered from foreign occupied nations is not quite as cheap as they'd hoped for.

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