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Head Of ATF To Direct RIAA Anti-Piracy
plasmastate writes "Via Fox News: Bradley A. Buckles, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, is moving over to the RIAA to hunt down music pirates. And visions of David Koresh danced in their heads..."
Well, the guy has had long standing tenure at the ATF:
his ATF Bio
But in all honesty, his presence should neither make someone worry more or less. More notably at this moment it would seem to just be a change in strategy (as what happens when different controlers take the wheel). We will see more Lawsuits, but perhaps in directions we haven't seen yet. I don't know a great deal about this guy, but it seems at though he is just like any other in that position, the only thing different will be his game plan.
Buckles, according to the article, was appointed as head of the ATF in 1999, long after the Waco incident, under President Clinton.
The sort of problems that people are joking about us facing because of Buckles should be attributed to his predecessors, not him.
Course, he did receive from Ashcroft, he can't be too clean.
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
Furthermore, what crime was David Koresh guilty of? Are you ready for the answer? Failing to pay taxes on 2 machine guns.
It was more than that. They had a quarter million $ in unpaid bills outstanding. Even the real estate they were sitting on was no longer theirs.
None of that's a serious or violent crime, of course.
...its a great way for artists that does not have a major record company in the back to pay for tv ads etc. I for one am buying a lot more records since i started downloading files on soulseek, mostly because Im able to discover a lot more good artists. instead of futile resistance the market must adopt to new technology. the days of record company behemoths are numbered. interesting article on non-piracy reasons for declining sales
The ATF was not involved with the Elian fiasco, since it didn't involve alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.
Except for the MP5 submachine gun pointed at little Elian by a federal officer in that famous picture.
That's total bullshit. Taxes? Koresh had three outstanding warrants for statutory rape involving several 14 and 15 year old girls. He used his interpretation of the Song of Solomon to convince young girls there to have sex with him. That's low.
It's too bad that little kids died. They didn't choose to stand behind Koresh.
-B
http://www.atf.gov/about/history.htm
9/11 happened because there was no 'well armed local militia' present on the planes. Everyone is required to give their guns up before they board the plane. If good people had been allowed to bring their weapons onto the plane, the hijackers (who did not have concealed carry permits nor would have been elgibile for one in any state) would have been quickly subdued with much less loss of life.