"I'm from The Government and I'm here to help you...."

As soon as I read that the basis of the Gestapo-like raid on a fundamentalist sect down in Eldorado last month was triggered by an anonymous, false report of sexual assault, I knew the charges were unlikely to stick.

So it was no surprise to learn today that the arrest warrant for a man thought to be the "husband" of "a teenage girl" which triggered the now-infamous raid on the compound of the polygamous sect--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS)--has been dismissed.

Let me digress to point out to the nation's numbskulls that this is not the LDS which had banned polygamy more than 100 years ago and often referred to as "Mormons".

(Sub-text note: if you're gonna run around calling people "African-Americans" when it's an absolute misnomer... know that the word "mormon" is seldom used... legally and officially it's The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anyway, an FLDS spokesman, said the now-vanished warrant shows the weakness of the state's case against residents of the ranch.

"I think that's just one more piece of evidence that the whole basis on which this raid was premised was unfounded and was inadequately checked out, to the formulation of what basically amounted to an army that went in there and took their children," the spokesman said.

The only result in this debacle so far is that since the April 3 raid, in which state welfare workers terrorized and traumatized, and forcibly removed 464 children living at the compound from their parents, family friends and home; the children remain in state custody which exacerbates the trauma.

... and some people are still upset that Japanese-Americans were relocated from the West Coast in '42.

Had the FLDS chosen to defend their families, it's possible Waco could have looked like a minor skirmish.

All churches, religious people and all citizens should feel the "chill wind" that has blown through Eldorado, damaging the lives of hundreds of Americans.

But if the murder of two members of Randy Weaver's family in the government's attack on another "compound"---Ruby Ridge---not to mention the murder of 76 people, including 21 children (some shown above) and two pregnant women, along with Branch Davidian leader David Koresh in Waco 15 years ago, didn't move anyone sufficiently, I doubt Eldorado will.

At right Weaver shows a photo of his 14-year-old son, Sammy, who was shot and killed by an FBI agent who also killed the boy's dog.

They shot all the dogs at Waco as well; hardly shocking when they went on to shoot and incinerate children.

In the same attack, an FBI sniper, Lon Horiuchi, shot Weaver's wife in the head as she held an infant in her arms in the doorway of her home. Weaver and a family friend were also shot down, but survived.

In a matter of months, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno killed, wounded and traumatized more than 80 Americans--approximately 25% of them children.

.... and some people hate George Bush.

Lastly, the direct result of the Waco killings occurred exactly two years later.

On April 19, 1995, Terrorist Timothy McVeigh referred to the attack at Oklahoma City's Alfred D. Murrah Federal Building as payback for what the federal government did two years earlier; 168 innocent people, including many children in the building's day-care center, were blown apart by 4,800 pounds of explosives.

Scores more were burned, wounded and permanently disabled.

Clinton Government body count in just three years:

.... 250 Americans and more than 800 injured.