What the Hell was so great about Janet Reno anyways?

[Bush loves Jiang]

She fought for Internet censorship as AG.

The only thing "good" about her is that Ashcroft is much worse.

Anyone criticised by the ACLU that often had to be evil.

[htuttle]

1. She was a great dancer

.

[Democrats unite]

2. I loved her "so called friend" Donna Hanson.

Two great ladies in my opinion!

[patricia92243]

3. She was a Democrat!! Democrats QUIT tearing down other Democrats no matter

how lowly their post in government.

Shame on you!

Edit for spelling

[lovedems]

4. Timothy McVeigh was caught and now he is dead

so I am sure there are alot of families in Oklahoma City who are thankful that they know the truth about what happened that dreadful day and the perps. are in jail or dead.

[libview]

5. she sent Elion back to Castro,

and lets not forget Waco!! Lots of little kids got burned in that one.
(no pun intended)
I agree, there was nothing great about her.

[Scurrilous]

6. His name was Elian...

...and he wasn't sent back to Castro. He was returned to Cuba to live with his father.

[girl gone mad]

7. I actually think she did the right thing in the..

Elian case, though the way they went in was heavy-handed.

Other than that, I didn't see anything good about here.

[sendero]

25. thats...

... pretty much my take. She did the right thing on that one, but otherwise "mediocre" is about as good a description of her as any.

[Bunny]

9. Yeah let's not forget Waco.

And the one person solely responsible for the deaths of those children.








David Koresh.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Ditto!

Ignorant Freeps are usually the ones that blame Ms. Reno for burning kids.

[baldguy]

24. David Koresh is dead.

He was a mass murderer.

Thank God David Koresh is dead.

[Orangepeel]

8. What brought this on?

I'm not a big fan of Janet Reno, but what's the point of trashing her now?

[Stuckinthebush]

10. Look! Over there!

The ghost of the Clinton Administration!

{Do not pay attention to the man behind the curtain who is destroying our world}

[charlie]

12. Reminds me of another poster

with a handful of hobbyhorses he rode pretty hard (most notably gay/lesbian issues, the evil RIAA/MPAA, Taiwan, Taiwan, Taiwan, and Taiwan). His posts were always context-free stream of consciousness exhortations like the one we're looking at now...

Izzat you Sephirstein?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. I forgot about ole Sephirstein

and yes, this poster's syntax is vaguely familiar...

:freak:

[htuttle]

13. 99.999% of the time...

...People who demonize Janet Reno, especially regarding both Elian and Waco, are full-blown, ignorant freepers. These are same type that criticize the Mogadishu operation during Clinton's presidency, yet are just fine with the current catastrophe in Iraq.

Be advised.

[sendero]

26. I'm going to have to differ....

... the Waco thing was an unmitigated disaster on every level.

There was no reason for the FBI/ATF people to even be there to begin with. They could have arrested Koresh in town. Instead, they wanted a showdown and they got one.

Now, exactly how much of the decision-making process was in Reno's hands is anyone's guess. But some folks would say she was at the top so she is responsible.

[DoYouEverWonder]

27. The Waco thing started

before Reno took office and after Koresh and his crew killed 6 law enforcement officers.

[qb]

14. On the whole, I think she did okay.

I was peeved about her capitulation to the Starr steamroller, but given the Rethuglican machine and media whores it must seemed prudent to give in a little.

[opihimoimoi]

15. I thought she did rather well under the circumstances.,

I feel a pub would have done worse as evidenced by the current office holder.

Covering Libertys breasts is a sin. Its a fucking statue for gods sake.

[noonwitch]

16. She could make a decision and stick to it, and own up to plans gone awry

1. She took responsibility for the situation at Waco, even though it really wasn't her fault, it was Koresh's.
2. Her department put the 1993 WTC bombers behind bars for life and got a conviction against McVeigh and Nichols for the OKC bombing.
3. She did the right thing and returned Elian to his father. She used force to do it, but I don't think that family and their neighborhood mob of cuban ex-pats would have let go of him without that force.
4. She had a sense of humor and thought that Will Farrell's impression of her was funny.
5. She led her department to look into unfair business practices by companies like Microsoft, even if Ashcroft made the charges go away shortly after taking office.

Then, of course, there's the fact that she's not a lunatic fundamentalist christian who used her office to persecute cancer and AIDS patients who smoke pot to control the pain and stimulate their appetites. She never spent a couple of thousand of taxpayers dollars to cover up the breast on a statue of a woman.

[libertad]

18. I've met Janet Reno and I think she's a wonderful person.

She made the right decision about Elian Gonzalez. He had a living parent that wanted him.

[King Coal]

17. She never covered up a tit that wasn't hers.

[libview]

29. wow, let's give her the nobel peace prize

[donsu]

19. she's tough, she's honest, she is a woman to admire

nt

[0007]

20. Janet Reno is twenty leagues over John Ashcroft on his best day

[Loonman]

22. Fuck Koresh and the Branch Davidians

That's all I have to say.

[Mandate My Ass]

23. she was instrumental

in establishing the first drug treatment court in Miami. Imagine, treating addiction like the disease it is and helping users learn coping and employment skills and doing it more cheaply than warehousing them. The term "evil" is bandied about by the likes of Ashcroft and the Bush cabal because it shuts off thought, IMHO. :shrug:

[EV1Ltimm]

28. She's been the basis of my halloween costume for the past 5 years

:)

[latebloomer]

30. She looks exalted next to Asscroft

Which only shows how far we've fallen.