-Caveat Lector- http://www.elkodaily.com/Article_detail_display.cfm?ID=4167&Articletypeid=8 Corrupt federal government no longer a faraway novelty Wednesday, September 08, 1999 EDFP There used to be some comfort in the fact that Washington, D.C., was a long way away. We could read about corrupt members of the presidential administration cutting deals with unscrupulous members of the Congress while dirty federal judges looked the other way and shake our heads at the way people operated there. But it struck us, as we watched the frame-up of Federal Bureau of Investigations Director Louis Freeh, that the dirty dealing, lying and political assassinations being displayed in the Waco cover-up are not that different from the federal operations right here in Elko County. The slime isn't confined to the capital anymore. While the federal church burning in Waco, where more than 80 people were killed, is in a class by itself in terms of government brutality, there are parallels between the attack on the Branch Davidian compound and the assault on Elko County. First, there's the transference of victimhood. In the Waco case, the new victim is Attorney Janet Reno, who was, the spin goes, lied to by Freeh's boys at the FBI. Notice how nobody talks about all the dead children? No, those kids aren't victims. We believe President Bill Clinton put the federal line best, when he said, back in 1993, "Some religious fanatics killed themselves." While it's true some fanatics did some killing that day, we seriously doubt religion was their motivating factor. More likely, it was orders from Washington. Who issued them would make an interesting story. Here in Elko County, the feds came up with a fish as the victim when they sought to paint Elko County as a bad guy in what amounts to a showdown over who's got the power to do what on the south end of Jarbidge Canyon. As the Nevada Department of Wildlife keeps explaining, there are plenty of these fish and their existence is not threatened. The real victims, of course, are the people of Jarbidge and the people who visit there. They are the ones who continue to suffer from the U.S. Forest Service's efforts to disrupt local transportation, a side effect of the agency's desire to expand the Jarbidge Wilderness Area. Moving from victim to perpetrator, Louis Freeh is the prime suspect in the Waco cover up. Why? As Robert Novak explains elsewhere on this page, the answer is that Clinton hates Freeh. Clinton has installed a deaf, dumb and blind woman as attorney general to protect the administration from any justice catching up to it and Freeh hasn't been very good at playing along. Clinton needs someone to blame for the Waco disaster in order to divert attention from the real killers, and Freeh is the guy. Back in Elko County, the feds needed a bad guy to divert attention from their wilderness expansion and who better than the Elko County Commission, which has been a thorn in the side of so many other federal operations, from stealing the state's water to cheating people out of their mining claims to destroying ranching operations and turning the rangeland into a tinderbox. Elko County Commissioners go in and fix a flooded-out road the feds refuse to fix; the feds go into a snit and tear up the whole area in a tantrum; and then they point at Elko's commission as the bad guy. Sens. Richard Bryan and Harry Reid � who at least could see the injustice of Janet Reno's ultimatum that Elko County turn over the treasury by Friday or face a new federal legal assault, and have gained the county an extension of that deadline � now believe the best course of action is to sit down with these federal thugs and negotiate a settlement. We scoff at the notion any good could come to Elko County by dealing with these devils, devils our U.S. senators should be familiar with by this point. Our federal representative, Jim Gibbons, at least claims to understand the problem, which does us no good, as he says there's little that can be done about it. The corruption of our government is such that one of the president's thugs can burn down a church or shut down a road, then sit before a congressional committee with a smug grin, telling the congressmen there's not a Hell of a lot they can do about it. The best that can be done, according to Rep. Gibbons, is to slap an agency on the wrist in the budget process � itself a difficult task, as spending money, not withholding it, is what keeps congressmen secure in their posts. This is a recipe for disaster. If Congress says it can do nothing, somebody else is going to decide that anything is worth a try.�DS -- ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
