re: Things that do
A historical footnote:
We don't call out military strikes against our own people, yet we seem to think that the results in other nations would somehow be different than, say, dropping precision bombs in . . .
Philadelphia
Police officers arrived at the MOVE home at 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia on the morning of May 13, 1985 to serve arrest warrants on four MOVE members, and were met with gunfire, authorities said. Police fired back, touching off a 90-minute gun battle.
Later that day, police dropped the bomb on the MOVE row house from a state police helicopter. The bomb missed its target -- a fortified bunker on the roof -- and started a fire that burned an entire city block.
The plaintiffs contended that then-Police Commissioner Sambor and then-Fire Commissioner Richmond, who were on the scene, agreed to let the fire burn.
The fire destroyed 61 row houses, including MOVE's, and left 250 people homeless. Of the 11 people killed in the fire, five were children.
[Source: CNN archive article (6/24/96) on survivor Ramona Africa's successful lawsuit against the city and some of its officials.]
Maybe some of you remember the stirring phrase "Let the bunker burn".
Here, for the hell of it, is NewsMax's take on the event.