alt.conspiracy.pynchon.waco

[David Morris]

>From: "Coffey, Mitchell R"
>
>Your facts are wrong: no one was "Bar-B-Qued by the Feds."  The jerry cans 
>of gasoline were poured about Koresh's building by Koresh's command, and 
>the children and other innocents were prevented from leaving the building 
>by Koresh's command.
>
>Now, the Feds already knew Koresh was a homicidal maniac - he began the 
>episode by responding to a legal, open and probably expected attempt to 
>serve a warrant upon him by having two (or was it four?) Feds murdered 
>unprovoked on the spot.  It follows that the Feds and Reno erred in not 
>assuming that Koresh and his lieutenants would quite likely respond to a 
>rescue attempt by murdering all adults and children under his care, then 
>killing themselves.  It follows that the Feds and Reno are guilty of a 
>gross, even criminal, error of judgment.
>
>However, a error in judgment does not constitute intentionally inflicting 
>the results - which it is your claim it was in your unfortunate reference 
>to Solomon.  Thus, beyond your error of fact, your moral logic is also 
>mistaken.

Your facts are but one version, of which you seem so certain that I wonder 
how you came by them.  However, arguing/investigating those facts is beyond 
this forum, I believe.  Different sets of facts will produce different 
moral-logical judgements, I therefore reject your last conclusion above.

But here's a hypothetical alternative which would have removed all 
uncertainty:  Had Reno and the Feds not bashed-in the walls of the compound, 
we wouldn't have to wonder whether it was suicide or an (accidental?) Fed 
bar-b-que.  Waiting the situation out would have removed all uncertainty.

DM
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