From: Chispas De Muerte <generentropy@yahoo.com>
quoted 5 lines very horrible and painful way. If you have any faith
> very horrible and painful way. If you have any faith
> in the US government I dare you to watch this movie,
> as this documentary shatters any illusion of the
> Authorities in the ATF and National Guard as bieng
> anything but monsters.
I don't want to start an extended debate on this, particularly as it is not
music related. And I'm not going to make any excuse for the US authorities,
I also think the whole Waco thing was a complete fiasco. But I have a
problem with this monolithic approach to government. They're not the Borg,
with every single thing controlled by an evil overmind. It's ultimately a
variety of people in uniform and positions of authority. People make
mistakes, communications get garbled, policies are misinterpreted, some
people in authority are bad people, some are ineffective, etc. etc. etc.
Of course as citizens (of any country) we should hold our governments
accountable and demand fairness and transparency, and of course we will
always have legitimate complaints and suspicions about how government works.
But generally governments are not evil conspiracies which are Out To Get
You. They're more like elephants - useful servants when kept in line,
dangerous in times of confusion or panic, and sometimes they need to be
brought down.
If you want something to be really angry about, look at Afghanistan, where
the religious fundamentalist government has made the owership or use of
musical instruments a criminal offence.
Anig Browl
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