[Leica] Photo student harassed in Seattle by Homeland Security

[tim at KairosPhoto.com (Tim Atherton)]

> I will not speak in defense of the methods chosen by McVey and his cronies
> but, in the end, there are a substantial number of folks throughout the US
> who feel dispossessed as they oppose the current thrust of increasing
> government coercion yet cannot get their representatives to
> respond to them
> with anything other than brush-off and dismissive letters.  I understand
> why these guys feel this way though I do have access to my Congressman,
> know my State representative and Senator quite well, and can gain ready
> access to either of my US senators.  (These guys will listen patiently.
> The State delegate and the US Congressman will speak intelligently with me
> about my issues but may not respond by chaning their position;  the others
> will be polite but will probably not consider changing their votes as a
> result of my input.)
>
> McVey and his ilk would respond more reasonably if the US government got
> off this "gun possession = gun nut" attitude.  What happened at Ruby Ridge
> is intolerable and what happened at Waco was a blazing wrong,
> what with the
> US agents killing a number of women and children located at the compound.
> I suspect that the best thing which could occur would be for Senator
> Daschle, whose state has arguably the hightest ratio of these rightist
> rebels, to open a dialogue with them.  But that is not on his Party-driven
> agenda so we probably will never know if he could do some good.
>

BTW Marc, that's a pretty good standard description (and justification) for
any mainstream nation based internal terrorist group - Irish, Palestinian,
Tamil, Jewish - take your pick.

tim