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A found object: Nick Gillespie breaks out the crayons for some Waco-style artwork by ATF agents' kids.

Comments

AC | August 4, 2006, 4:24pm | #

I've been reading reason for too long. I saw that image from the front page and before I read anything I thought of Waco.

madpad | August 4, 2006, 4:37pm | #

Amen, AC...same thing happened to me.

86 people...damn, I forgot how many people had died there. What a sad, pathetic waste. Sadly, I don't think it ever sank in to the folks at ATF or the FBI.

Bob Z | August 4, 2006, 4:44pm | #

Wow, it's like deja vu all over again. You may want to check the archives. These drawings were already posted here 3 or 4 months ago.

Happy Jack | August 4, 2006, 5:03pm | #

serve as a daily reminder to ATF agents to learn from the past

I think they would learn a different lesson if they had portraits of Larry Potts, William Boykin, Peter Schoomaker, et al.

Tim's Mother | August 4, 2006, 5:27pm | #

"Wow, it's like deja vu all over again. You may want to check the archives. These drawings were already posted here 3 or 4 months ago."

Tim's always been a little slow.

mediageek | August 4, 2006, 5:37pm | #

Guys, the original discussion thread was about the link itself. This one is about the resulting article that appeared in last month's issue of Reason Magazine.

Server Squirrel #3 | August 4, 2006, 5:37pm | #

"Tim's always been a little slow."

No, he posted it months ago. We just got around to it now.

Smappy | August 4, 2006, 5:48pm | #

Their choice of winners and losers is very telling. Check out (on the same page as the winning entry posted by Nick) the ones by Nicholas and Khalia.

Nicholas shows ATF HQ as the apparent source of rainbows.

Khalia has smiling stick figures half encircling the globe. A globe which eerily is missing every land mass except for the lower 48 States (minus the very Blue Northeast).

Two entries that didn't win:

Noah - he's got his mom firing a pistol, apparently indiscriminately

Katie - she shows her dad sitting in front of a terminal eating a doughnut.

Crusader Rabbit | August 4, 2006, 8:56pm | #

That's really creepy.

Wouldn't the folks who chose the winners have noticed something a little . . . peculiar about this one?

bigbigslacker | August 5, 2006, 10:42am | #

I like the one from the 12 and 13 yr old category showing the Weaver family dog about to get shot dead.

http://www.atf.gov/kids/graphics/art_contest/dsc_563620%25.jpg

The Wine Commonsewer | August 5, 2006, 12:21pm | #

Slacker, that is frikkin scary.

kevrob | August 5, 2006, 3:10pm | #

Somebody should tell Conan O'Brien about this.

Kevin

Mo | August 5, 2006, 6:27pm | #

AC,
Me 3. My first though was, "Damn, that kid's got balls the size of grapfruits. Good for him." And then, "What a great country that they'd publish a kid's drawing of Waco for that contest."

When I read the truth, my smile turned to a frown.

Robert | August 6, 2006, 8:37pm | #

There's gotta be a story to this one:

http://www.atf.gov/kids/graphics/art_contest/dsc_557820%25.jpg

Robert | August 7, 2006, 2:59pm | #

I'm trying to figure this one too:

http://www.atf.gov/kids/graphics/art_contest/dsc_558620%25.jpg