Againsheila
Gold Member
so the children that died were not peaceful
David Koresh bears full responsibility.
The BATF wanted to make a big production so they could go to Congress at appropriations time and justify their budgets. They could have done their searches any number of ways, but they chose the Rambo approach because it would be exciting on a video shown to Congress.
The Batmen bear at least as much responsibility to the Waco clusterfuck as Koresh does.
There was absolutely no reason to storm the buildings, no one had attempted to leave,
So as long as you stay home after you murder someone .... you're in the clear ????
That all depends on who did the murdering. Koresh was hit when he opened the front door to greet the officers. Doesn't appear that he was looking for a shootout. If the ATF fired first, then they were the murderers.
The ATF went looking for a show. Even invited the TV cameras to the party. They got the show they were looking for.
The FBI lost their case, in my humble opinion, when they bulldozed the site to prevent the Texas Rangers from conducting an investigation into who fired first. They destroyed all the evidence for a reason. And, that reason was to protect themselves.
According to some of the survivors, they were shot at by the feds when they tried to flee the burning building. At least one of the people was shot dead, and he didn't have a weapon on him.