Subject: Re: "I couldn't care less"
From: petra@vax1.mankato.msus.edu

In article <1993Apr22.095731.20865@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>, kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
> In article <1993Apr21.160722.6920@msuvx2.memst.edu> mech24135045@msuvx2.memst.edu writes:
>>In article <93111.14430834AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET>, <34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET> writes:
>>> Above quote from Rush's radio show yesterday, when he referred to recent events
>>> near Waco, Texas.
>>> 
>>
>>Me either. Yes, it's regrettable that eighty-some-odd people died, but
>>they could have walked out the door with the simple turn of a knob. It's
>>just plain stupid to lay the blame for this at anyones feet but ol' Vernon's.
>>If the FBI/BATF started the fire, why did it take six or so hours to catch?
>>Timed incendiary devices, you say? Could those idiots not have picked them 
>>up and tossed them out the window? And what of this argument about whether
>>a wood burning stove was being used? It's a known fact that when a city is
>>under seige, the citzens thereof eat what they can, how they can. Hell,
>>the BD's could've had MRE type grub for all any of us know.
>>My conscience is clear.
> 
> Does the word smolder mean anything to you?  Several minutes can go by
> before a smoldering cigarette butt in a couch sets the couch on fire.
> Here's a possible (maybe very possible) scenario:  one of the CS gas
> grenades that the FBI threw in earlier caused some material like the
> drapes or carpet to smolder for an extended period of time.  Later
> on when a tank punched a hole in the wall, knocking over one of the
> BDs kerosene lanterns, kerosene spilled onto this smoldering material,
> resulting in a fire that killed 86 people inside.  Another possibility

And this results in a fire that starts in one room and torches the entire place
before anyone in the adjacent rooms can escape?  I don't think so.  So much for
the smolder theory.

-Donavan
Sorry, no catchy quotes.
