An Election About Nothing?

Another Waco, only with about eighty fewer corpses, and a Federal law enforcement agency completely out of control.

by Rod D. Martin
October 30, 1998

An election is at hand, and yet again, the vast majority will not vote. Just as they have shown a complete disinterest in the character of the President, they will Tuesday show a total lack of concern for the fate of their country. For them, this is the Seinfeld election: an election about nothing.

It is just as well that such nincompoops won't vote; and yet it is a sorry commentary on the state of our body politic that so few understand, that so few even care. Another fatal disaster just this month, this time in Taft, California, shows us again just why it is so tragic.

According to the government's account, four years ago the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) began an investigation into illegal firearms sales by three people espousing anti-government beliefs. Early this month, they concluded that investigation with one of the three suspects dead.

Sgt. Ed Whiting of the Taft Police Department, a Kern County sheriff's deputy, and two BATF agen…