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re: An Insider Reflects on the Waco Standoff
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:06 pm to Hawkeye95
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:06 pm to Hawkeye95
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let's not pretend like David Koresh was some sort of good person
This is not a good vs bad issue. Just because Koresh was "bad" doesn't make the govt "good" or vice versa. There can be bad vs worse in this world, it happens quite often but too many people have too binary a view of the world.
Koresh and his cult was creepy, but that doesn't mean the ATF gets to burn them all at the stake in some modern day witch trial.
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 9:04 pm to AUin02
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that doesn't mean the ATF gets to burn them all at the stake in some modern day witch trial.
Hell, any kind of a trial would have been better than what the Feds did.
And don't forget the Feds first tried to justify it by saying he was illegally manufacturing fully automatic weapons. No one has ever produced one of these illegally modified guns. The NRA volunteered to contract with a Non Destructive Testing firm to see if the guns were modified. The Feds flat out refused.
Next they said he was sleeping with kids. There were several investigations about this before the raid. That also was never proven.
So, in order to get military help, they alleged that Koresh was manufacturing methamphetamine. That was an outright fabrication and no proof has ever been given.
Was Koresh weird? Was his religion strange? Certainly. Heck, he may have been mentally ill, but in America we don't generally kill people for that, at least not up until 1993 we didn't.
LC
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