• FiniteBanjo
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    7 months ago

    Thank goodness it wasn’t the same scale as that event, but at least the FBI attempted to negotiate and staved off a full offensive until 51 days had passed. If the Philadelphia police had shown that kind of respect and restraint then things might have ended a lot differently for the MOVE members.

    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      And yet the Waco siege is still a rallying cry for anti-government groups accusing the FBI and DEA of unjust, violent overreaction, while the MOVE bombing is not. Huh, I wonder what the difference is? /s

      • FiniteBanjo
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        7 months ago

        Could unironically be the difference in body count.

        • orrk@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          let’s not kid ourselves, it’s not the body count, it’s the same reason they don’t cite Tulsa nor Blair Mountain

            • orrk@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              7 months ago

              they don’t you say? so none of them involved Government force, and not for the better?

              but let’s be honest, Tulsa just had mainly black victims and was supported by the government (this is fine)

              Blair Mountain just had mainly socialists as victims and was supported by the government (this is also fine)

              but Waco, those were upstanding whites who refused the tyrannical mandate of the government (real victims)

                • orrk@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  6 months ago

                  because this has nothing to do with concentration camps, and everything to do with the American government and government related massacres in America?

                  I mean, if you want to bring concentration camps into this, we can start talking about why a majority of the American prison population is black and are used as life long slave labor.