From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 03:45:54 +0800
To: "Chris Adams" <alanh@infi.net>
Subject: Re: pledge status
Message-ID: <199607211738.KAA02888@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 01:09 AM 7/21/96 -0800, Chris Adams wrote:
>On 20 Jul 96 23:12:20 -0800, alanh@infi.net wrote:
>>I think this has relevance to the
>>black-ninjas-pretending-that-they're-in-a-Hollywood-script thread about
>>cops making unanounced search warrant services at 4am. 
>>
>>I have tremendous admiration for my local LEO's.  It's the federales that 
>>are the problem, usually.

>I'm thinking of Waco, where, I've heard, more experienced SWAT-types
>tried to talk their bosses out of a certain infamous mistake...

Subsequent to the initial Waco raid, the government was claiming that the 
Davidians were "ready" for them.  I think it was easy to tell that this was 
a lie:  Had they actually been READY, far more than 4 agents would have been 
dead.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com