Those of us who responded to this quote often think Waco was an issue of Freedom. With freedom, comes great responsibility as such the family should be the center of all freedom. Also, as part of that family unit, a child has the right to be free from sexual abuse at the hands of an adult. This whole incident came out because of child sexual abuse by David Koresh, a self proclaimed prophet. He was willing to die for the right to have sex with children under the age of sexual consent. I will say, the government though over reacted and came in with swat teams, ATF agents and the SS Gastapo NAZI tatics that ATF uses. They could have grabbed him outside the compound and all these childen would have been alive.

The poor makes the rich richer by running after the satisfaction of his/her desires, which are driven by all sort of seductive manipulation (i.e religion, social, marketing, etc). Maybe the poor can set resistance with his/her little money by not buying the new ipod, iphone, inonsense, etc. Nixon Jean-Baptiste

Here are a couple quotes that possibly are the source of Mr. Waffler's earlier comments: "Though much an enemy to the system of borrowing, yet I feel strongly the necessity of preserving the power to borrow. Without this, we might be overwhelmed by another nation, merely by the force of its credit." --Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1788. ME 6:423 "[Using], for instance, the table of M. de Buffon, [it can be determined that] the half of those of 21 years and upwards living at any one instant of time will be dead in 18 years, 8 months, or say 19 years as the nearest integral number. Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation nor even the whole nation itself assembled can validly extend a debt... With respect to future debts, would it not be wise and just for [a] nation to declare in [its] constitution that neither the legislature nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years? And that all future contracts shall be deemed void as to what shall remain unpaid at the end of 19 years from their date?" --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. Papers 15:394 http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1340.htm

Great qoute to define his view on the questions of cultural ethics