waco

Similarly, I imagine that Waco is a city to a Texan, but to me it's a siege.

That Waco & Ruby Ridge & Brady Ranch all happened IS significant, because they were followed by a significant drop in violent raids, militarization notwithstanding.

I'm currently interning at a startup in Waco writing a lot of PHP and javascript.

I also saw an upright stuffed alligator on wheels holding a drinks tray that David Koresh of Waco fame had sent as a gift.

McVeigh was motivated by Ruby Ridge and Waco (both of which were debacles the feds completely mishandled, to speak charitably), and bin Laden was motivated primarily by American intervention in the Middle East.

Fifteen years ago, even in the wake of Ruby Ridge and Waco, I might've been tempted to agree with you.

Just look at Manson or Waco, for example.

The Waco & Ruby Ridge incidents of the 90s fueled the "government out to get you" mindset and started people talking about "not letting it happen again".

I argued that taxation is theft, the war on drugs is immoral, and that the ATF are “a bunch of jack booted thugs and murderers” in memoriam to the people they slaughtered in Waco, Texas.

Location: Waco, TX Remote: yes Willing to relocate: to Austin, if you can wait until the end of the semester.

I love how we went from "The USA has awesome parts too, like Marin!" to "well you've got to be rich to live in them" to "well you don't have to be rich to live in Waco!"

Too much seems too different about those two to be meaningful; I could point to the strict gun laws in most of the western nations and ask, "why haven't they degenerated into `could get too bad'?" About the "whole lot of history since Ruby Ridge and Waco," well, I don't see any specific pattern of things getting "too bad".

The Waco & Ruby Ridge incidents of the 90s fueled the "government out to get you" mindset and started people talking about "not letting it happen again".

I argued that taxation is theft, the war on drugs is immoral, and that the ATF are “a bunch of jack booted thugs and murderers” in memoriam to the people they slaughtered in Waco, Texas.

I love how we went from "The USA has awesome parts too, like Marin!" to "well you've got to be rich to live in them" to "well you don't have to be rich to live in Waco!"

Too much seems too different about those two to be meaningful; I could point to the strict gun laws in most of the western nations and ask, "why haven't they degenerated into `could get too bad'?" About the "whole lot of history since Ruby Ridge and Waco," well, I don't see any specific pattern of things getting "too bad".

Fifteen years ago, even in the wake of Ruby Ridge and Waco, I might've been tempted to agree with you.

Just look at Manson or Waco, for example.

Location: Waco, TX Remote: yes Willing to relocate: to Austin, if you can wait until the end of the semester.