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Anything the left gets away with using against
anybody will eventually be used against us.
I don't care about Koresh. But I do care about what HAPPENED
to Koresh, because it can happen to us.
I believe that the fire was started by the Davidians,
on orders from Koresh. The point is that it would not
have been started if the FBI had done the sane thing,
which was to blockade them.
Yes, I DID say that at the time. In fact, I was mystified
at the whole idea of an attack when a blockade would do
the job. But the rule at the time was, if the militant
isn't a leftist, blast him to pieces.
The chief negotiator for the FBI at Waco was being interviewed
on CNN. He said he had recommended that, instead of attacking
the compound, the FBI should have just surrounded the
place, cut it off, and waited for the Branch Davidians
to come out. Van Sustern said that sounded very good to
her, and asked why the FBI didn't do it.
Well, said the negotiator, an FBI man had been killed.
So they had to attack. He gave a couple more lame excuses.
Commentators seem to have very conveniently forgotten
the situation at the time. Before Waco, liberals AND CONSERVATIVES
had given the BATF and FBI a license to massacre anyone
who resisted them, as long as the resisters were not left
wing. I even remember seeing the situation depicted in
a major movie of the time.
The hero of the movie was working with the FBI, and he
and dozens of other officers had a guy in a nazi uniform
trapped. The man knew he was surrounded and dead, so he
took out a pistol and fired random shots in the general
direction of all the heavily armed and hidden agents.
They fired hundreds of rounds, enjoying every minute of
it, cutting him to pieces. The hero looked a little disgusted
at the butchery.
Back then, not so long ago, Federal agents were under
tight scrutiny if they trapped black militants or leftist
militants or career criminals. But liberals gave them
a license to kill any armed rightist, and conservative
leaders cheered them on.
So the BATF had attacked the Branch Davidians, but they
got shot to pieces doing it. So the FBI was called in
to prepare for another attack.
Now, one might imagine that right wing leaders would long
since have realized that this sort of government violence
would eventually threaten them. But this ignores the fact
that we are dealing here with a bunch of cowardly nitwits.
As soon as liberals declared that some group of rightists
were evil, all the other rightists immediately shouted
"Kill 'em! I'm with you, liberals, I ain't no Evil
Nazi!!!"
This right wing routine of praising liberals for using
violence or slurs against their enemies has been standard
practice for years (See September 26, 1998 article, "Respectable Conservatives Kill Their Wounded").
It is a vicious circle. In their desperation to avoid
being labeled whatever liberals are calling their latest
enemies, conservatives denounce the latest liberal target
wildly. This makes the liberals denounce more people.
In their desperation to avoid being associated with this
wider circle of people being denounced, conservatives
wildly denounce them too, and demand even stronger action
to crush the "evil racists" or "gun nuts"
or whatever. And the process continues.
Inevitably, we will eventually find OURSELVES in the group
being denounced by the liberals. When that happens, the
group screaming loudest for our blood will be our former
allies on the right.
You know, the guys we were shouting with last week for
the last group's blood. (Please see October 3, 1998 article,
"Defining Respectable Conservatives:
They're just Bureaucrats".)
But finally, when the Davidians got attacked, even the
cowardly nitwits on the right got scared. You see, when
this attack took place, a comforting illusion was blown
away.
Before Waco, right wing leaders had thought they had a
foolproof way to keep the liberals off of them. They thought
they could hide their political heresy behind religion.
They thought all they had to do was say, "Well, I
would be a good leftist, but I am a right winger just
because of religion." Liberals wouldn't DARE attack
them then! (Please see article for August 21, 1999, "The
Topeka Decision on Evolution").
"But the Davidians were a group of RELIGIOUS nutcases.
They even had a Star of David on the flag outside their
compound! With the attack on them, the illusion that claiming
religion would save you collapsed. When the FBI and the
BATF threw their full force against a bunch of armed RELIGIOUS
extremists, it scared the right half to death.
"DUHHHH!" said the right, "That could happen
to ME!!!"
In the same period, the right even got perturbed about
violence against a white separatist -- an Evil Racist,
no less. When a sniper shot down Randy Weaver's wife with
a baby in her arms, even rightist leaders said "DUHH!
(the one-word motto of the Shrewd Right ), "That
could happen to ME!!!!"
Let us say it again: Anything the left gets away with
using against anybody will eventually be used against
us.
Today, many a member of the League of the South goes into
a fainting fit when our enemies call Lee and Jackson Nazis.
When the liberals called Professor Arthur Jensen a Nazi,
most of the right laid low. They didn't want to be mixed
in with anything "controversial," and the minute
anybody gets called a racist by leftists, they become
"controversial." Time after time, a group or
a person becomes "controversial" because liberals
label him anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. As soon as
they are declared "controversial," rightists
refuse to defend their rights.
So now the liberals have declared that Jackson and Lee
- and anyone who admires them -- were naziswhwanttokillsixmillionjews.
Could any reasonably intelligent person
have imagined that this would not eventually happen?
And many League members are astonished that there is no
outcry against this label being applied to us.
But, you see, everybody ELSE is just trying to stay out
of this "controversy."
Just like so many of us did.
I think Koresh and his Davidians set the fire that killed
them and the children they were holding. I also think
this would not have happened if the FBI had not resorted
to an unnecessary assault. The FBI should have cut off
the Branch Davidians and forced them to come out by blockade.
But they went in after them, guns blazing, because that
was the way things were done then, with the full approval
of the left and therefore of the respectable right. It
never occurred to the FBI that the right would actually
go "DUHH!," wake up and finally realize they,
too, were threatened.
For those who have not learned this lesson yet, they'd
better learn it. As I pointed out on October 24, 1998,
in "Liberal Spores,"
if the liberals haven't made your nightmares come true
yet, they WILL get around to it.
For the third and last time, we must learn this rule:
Anything the left gets away with using against anybody
will eventually be used against us.
Maybe, just maybe, we can finally learn that, if you wait
for them to come get YOU before you say anything, you
are doomed.
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