Blame Parents, Not U.S., For Deaths Of Kids At Waco

Letter of the Week From May 24

I am rapidly getting tired of letters that question “where was all the show of support and sympathy for the victims of Waco?”

The innocent children at Waco were killed by the same kind of militant, lunatic butchers who killed the children in Oklahoma City. And worse, those Waco killers were the children’s own parents - those who set fires inside the compound.

Yes, I sympathize somewhat with the current growing distrust of government. Reverse discrimination, affirmative action or whatever else it is called is still discrimination. And big government is almost as undesirable and self-serving as big corporations.

But please, refrain from dreaming up lies about what happened in Waco to support your anti-government bias if you want the average American to give your views any credence.

In the past month in Oklahoma City we have seen heroes. Those poor, deluded, lost denizens inside the compound at Waco were not heroes. William L. Betz Newport, Wash.

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