Remember this picture?

It horrified the Republican party and lead to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, calling the DOJ "Jackbooted Thugs".

He also said;
"Congress has the duty and responsibility to make a determination as to when INS or any governmental agency will put into play circumstances which could lead to deadly force,"

"Republicans, and a handful of Democrats aligned with those seeking to block Elian's return to Cuba, stepped up their criticism for what they see as the Justice Department's strong-arm tactics.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., decried "the grotesque image" of the seizure at gunpoint. And Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, called Reno's decision "reckless."


Oh how I miss the Republican party.


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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

"I can see you, your jackboots shining in the sun, you got your red hat and smiling at no one..."

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.