minuteman project and Waco type events thread
Paul,
as we are the leading experts in the world about Titor-Waco-type events ( :lol: ), maybe it's time to discuss what really a Waco-type event means !
You're all americans, so it sounds obvious to you. To me, it's more subtle. I know Waco because I'm very deeply interested in american culture/history, but I seriously doubt you'd find just one european in the street knowing what the heck Waco is.
Anyway, Waco means something quite simple: repression of dissensus. You don't need to involve "the right to bear arms", or fireshooting with Police, or whatever reproduces the original Waco. To qualify for "waco type event" you just need citizens trying to affirm any of their rights (arms, speech, a march, free press or simply a discussion) and the govt stopping them, with violence or in a undemocratic way.
That's why sometimes I post what sounds a Waco to me, and people here often respond "no, that's not a Waco". "Waco event" is a mood, is a black hole in a free country, is something you don't expect, is something you can find in the 6th page of an unknown newspaper from Nowhere, Ohio. Is the little story of the citizens protesting and the Police arresting them for 3 days without any guarantees... nothing you're going to see on prime time.
Thoughts?