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The kids were murdered by Koresh who had the compound set alight. I've gone over the videos we made live off CNN. There is absolutely no doubt that the fire started in multiple places.
Spoken like a man who *hasn't* seen the FLIRT (Forward Looking InfraRed Television) tapes that show the characteristic signatures of ingoing automatic weapons fire. Even the Washington Post was "troubled." Spoken like a man who thinks that if some Federal Government somewhere tries to knock buildings down with tanks and releases massive quantities of tear gas (admitted by the Federales), it has absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for whatever follows. It was just an innocent bystander. All this after an armed assault on a private dwelling. I'll have to try that some time with the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office building in lower Manhatten. I know I can count on you to defend me by saying that even though I hit the place with 20 or 30 heavily-armed troopies and then knocked a few walls down with tanks and filled the building with tear gas, nothing that happened there was my fault. Gee! Too bad about those Jews. They accidently wandered out into the middle of Poland and committed suicide all 6 million of them. Religious fanaticism can be dangerous.
If a group of people shoot anyone approaching them for any reason whatsoever the police have an absolute need to investigate.
So who did they shoot in advance of the BATF attack?
There was nothing else the authorities could have done except prevent Koresh from accumulating the arms in the first place.
There are currently hundreds of "compounds" (probably thousands) in America that have more firearms and people than existed at Mt. Carmel (80 people. One gun per person). There are millions of households in America (some on this list) that have *many* more guns per person (20x) than the residents of Koresh's religious community had. The Feds could have done in 1993 what they've done since (Koresh wasn't the only one who got burned there) and LEAVE PEACEFUL PEOPLE ALONE. We pay them to be PEACE officers not WAR officers. WAR officers we reserve for foreigners (and Hispanic teenagers herding their goats on their own land and plinking with DANGEROUS .22 assault rifles too near the Mexican border). DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM5XW9IVO4r4sgSPhAQFBVAP+LdVs5CHD5WPlvd8PNg3LLMjmQkJ2Ad+c 3pS6KqKj/KWF+j3EqjzqgGXlL6SqndrdaSEXJv52ZXo0Rm6qm2xB55U/b7CvG4oV 4f/uvSKZZcWV8+gNqQ0Vm35U4JuGtWhDqP1puO3EdlHmQfEyCbZ8Tnb4mTrz7Kwx HGXBlmCsJbQ= =uvqY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----