>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 10/06/99 04:43PM >>>
Charles Brown wrote:
>Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that debate. I can see that my
>phrasing might suggest it. Waco was certainly a spectacular
>example. I can't quite come up with why the feds were so out to get
>that group, why all the premeditation. I mean you may be correct in
>your inference, but what was the political motive of the feds ?
Workers Vanguard - my beacon in an uncertain world - theorized that it was to offer a warning to anyone in L.A. who might object to the then-upcoming verdict in the trial of the cops who beat Rodney King.
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Charles: If I understand this and remember the order of events, this means the warning did not work, right ? Because the LA rebellion followed the acquittal.
CB