God, guns and football. Boy, Texas really is a whole other country. The notion that David Koresh and the Davidians were some kind of heroes, unjustly persecuted by the government, is so obviously and painfully absurd, it's nearly impossible to take the whole thing seriously. The Repubs are rousing the rabble and they will pay for it, one way or another. I think it will be by losing the Congress and the Presidency in November.
Democracy has a way of reining in that kind of hypocrisy and excessive partisanship.
There's a better case for making a martyr of David Koresh than Mumia Abu-Jamal. Waco A survivor says the government still isn't admitting its role in the deaths of 74 Branch Davidians. While celebrities raise money and attract media attention to the plight of black convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal, average black folk either don't know about him or don't like him if they do. Visit Salon Shop for inspiration. Pardoned, but unforgiving After being pardoned by Bill Clinton, former Weatherman member Linda Evans is still an enemy of American democracy.