Recently Ann Coulter commented on the likelihood that in a new Clinton Administration, Janet Reno would return to power. Coulter continues her article by pointing out that Reno killed more innocent people than any of Bush’s attorney generals:
“Let’s compare attorney generals:
Civilians killed by Ashcroft: 0
Civilians killed by Gonzales: 0
Civilians killed by Reno: 80
Reno’s military attack on a religious sect in Waco, Texas, led to the greatest number of civilians ever killed by the government in the history of the United States. More Americans were killed in Waco than were killed at any of the various markers on the left’s via dolorosa - more than Kent State (4 killed), more than the Haymarket Square rebellion (4 killed), more than Three Mile Island (0 killed).”
Geoff Botkin has observed:
Members of the church were suspected of technical violations of firearms laws. But administration and media rationale for the use of overwhelming genocidal force centered on family association with cult members, the practice of home education, the practice of corporal punishment, and the practice of having “hours-long twice-daily biblical lessons.”[1] Reno’s Treasury Department report on the actions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (issued in October, 1993) found the attack to be “tragically wrong,” but for reasons of tactical strategy. The lesson America learned from Reno’s Justice Department: the government must act harshly against Christian religious groups ‘regarded as unorthodox or spurious.
[1] Time Magazine, May 17, 1993