Comment on May 13, 1985
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 months agoAnd yet the Waco siege is still a rallying cry for anti-government groups accusing the FBI and DEA of unjust, violent overreaction, while the MOVE bombing is not. Huh, I wonder what the difference is? /s
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Could unironically be the difference in body count.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 months ago
That’s possible, but that doesn’t explain the same feeling about the Ruby Ridge incident.
orrk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
let’s not kid ourselves, it’s not the body count, it’s the same reason they don’t cite Tulsa nor Blair Mountain
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Tulsa and these two events are nothing in common.
orrk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
they don’t you say? so none of them involved Government force, and not for the better?
but let’s be honest, Tulsa just had mainly black victims and was supported by the government (this is fine)
Blair Mountain just had mainly socialists as victims and was supported by the government (this is also fine)
but Waco, those were upstanding whites who refused the tyrannical mandate of the government (real victims)