Um, yeah....
I suppose this girl was lying, then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUTzNV9gx5I
First, as previously mentioned, I have no reason to defend Koresh because even if the stories about his molesting children are true it doesn't justify the feds' precipitous action that caused the death of those children.
As for Kiri Jewell's testimony, I frankly don't know if she lied or not. But Snyder's observation occurring at points 0.47 through 0.51 are cause for curious concern. Kiri wasn't relating an event from her memory. She was reading -- as from a script.
My opinion of the molestation charges is shaped by the fact that the local sheriff and Texas Child Protective Services investigated those charges and determined they were without merit. Then, long after the massacre is over, and when it is important to the BATF, the FBI/HRT, Janet Reno, and Bill Clinton that the public believe all the charges against Koresh, here comes Kiri Jewell with a very convincing script to read from. Who wouldn't believe her?
I notice the fact that David Jewell, who had been a Davidian but left when his wife began an affair with Koresh and rejected him, wasn't mentioned. It was then he left the Davidians and made the molestation charges against Koresh.
Are the charges true or not? I honestly don't know. Is there cause to question some if not all of them? I think so. But, again, even if they are true this is not about Koresh. It's about 21 innocent kids who were victimized by government's unwillingness to let Koresh's defiance continue.
For me, the Waco Massacre was reminiscent of the 1985 police attempt to breach the barricaded MOVE organization's row house in Philadelphia. That bull-headed bit of authoritarian incompetence resulted in the police causing a fire that
burned down sixty-one houses! Who cares what the MOVE organization was about or how undesirable they were? I am concerned with the peripheral damage caused by the police whose authoritarian frustration and its accompanying incompetence drove hundreds of innocent people out of their homes.