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(u/l note: I saw this on another BBS and captured it)
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RE: response of media to Waco
I notice - at least in terms of the locl and state press -
the papers are all part of national chains anyway - that the
editorial opinion seems in terms of Waco to jump to generalizing
about religion in general and "conservative" religions in
particular (i.e. fundamentalists) as forces of evil or at least
fanatic destructiveness....
so I quote here some comments in one Joseph Sobran's recent
newpaper columns:
<< WASHINGTON, April 22 - The fall of the Branch Davidians
has brought the inevitable clucking about "cults" and
"fun-damentalists." President Clinton, in the course of defending
the final FBI assault on the Waco compound, spoke of the "rise in
this sort of fanaticism all across the world," warning that "we
may have to confront it again."
He added piously: "I hope very much that others who will be
tempted to join cults and become involved with people like David
Koresh will be deterred by the horrible scenes they have seen
over the last seven weeks." So the federal government is now in
the business of deciding which religions are good for us. Mr.
Clinton seems ready to attach warning labels.
BUT HIS ALARM IS hypocritical. There is, in fact, no
segment of the Ameri-can population that is more gentle and
law-abiding than Fundamentalist Christians.
Fundamentalists have very low rates of of violent crime, drug
and alcohol abuse, illegitimacy, and other disorders. Few of them
even smoke, which ought to win them at least a little respect
from liberals. Most of them work and pay taxes and don't take
welfare. They don't riot when they don't get their way. They
aren't into street crime. Or organized crime. Their names
don't come up in Wall Street scandals. They don't mug or kill
foreign tourists. They haven't introduced new diseases into the
national bloodstream. They don't amuse themselves with drive-by
shootings. Nobody avoids a neighborhood because fun-damentalists
dominate it. On the contrary, fundamentalists are rather easy to
push around. They are given to charitable works, though they
don't believe in advertising their kindness. They suffer a lot
of abuse without complaining. If they are getting active in
politics now, it's because they have learned the hard way that
the government won't leave them alone and respect their way of
life. >>
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