Letters to the Editor

These letters appeared in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition
October 11-17, 1999

Blood of children washed away by spin
   Janet Reno's wacky war on Waco is back in the news. And Washington, D.C. is gearing up to give it a second coat of whitewash.
   Washington doesn't investigate. It spins. The spin in Waco was to demonize the people who were killed. The feds killed more people at Waco than all the school violence and wacko shootings added together over the last six years. Seventeen of the 24 Waco children were under the age of 10. And they want gun control laws.
   Compare how the national news media beat us over the head with all the lurid details of Columbine with the absence of such details at Waco. The media bought Washington's spin, plain and simple.
   The reason I call it the "Waco War" is because the mentality used by the ATF and FBI was identical to the mentality used in fighting a war. They certainly were not there to solve a social problem in the sense local law enforcement applies. The question that really bothers me is, how did the federal government take over such an operation? And, why the total absence of local law enforcement on the scene? What was the local sheriff doing while all of this was going on?
   Think about it. Law enforcement officers shooting fully automatic weapons at a building, knowing there are 24 small children inside. This is not law enforcement. It is an act of war at its worst.
   Rodney King was not killed, or even hospitalized, and he got $1 million; two police officers went to prison and the police chief lost his job. Compare this to Waco and you come up with a huge credibility gap.
   If the American people are counting on Detective Janet Reno [side note: the Wicked Witch of Waco] for answers on Waco, they should know by now that she can't detect a giraffe in a band of sheep. It's all spin.

George W. Nourse
Sheriff, Canyon County
Caldwell, Idaho

Monica-gate techniques at use on Waco
   I have been reading a lot of press reports lately about the reopening of the investigation into the killings at Waco.
   These reported revelations of a government cover-up are merely a preemptive move by certain parties in our government to desensitize us in much the same way the White House did with with great success in the Monica Lewinsky fiasco. Once again, the goal is to make it seem like old news if indeed something is uncovered.
   The bottom line is that no matter what comes out it will be justified by the liberal media and the guilty parties will again skate.
   It's OK to kill American citizens that aren't politically correct and besides, the Republicans in Washington who have the guts to stand up in the police-state types in the Clinton administration and in the media are far outnumbered by other Republicans who are just plain chicken.

Mike Woods
Azle, Texas