[BradyLS]

I think David Koresh was nuts. That’s just my opinion, however. But he proved that the power and resources of the Federal government were unequal to the task of getting their man without first killing every other man, woman, and child around him!

IOW, the entire affair did not show smart Koresh was as reveal how colossally inept the DOJ could be—with tragic consequences—when given the opportunity.

[Hardastarboard]

David Koresh and probably most of his followers WERE nuts. What frosts me is that when you talk to anyone about that incident, they always parrot that line "They were nuts". Yes, but that doesn't give them the right to murder them, and their children.

My comment isn't specifically directed at you. It's more frustration that people are that dangerously stupid to believe that just because someone is delusional, and has managed to attract followers, that somehow it's OK for our "law enforcement" to murder them.

[gaijin]

I agree; Koresh was smart, charismatic and nuts. Certain aspects of their beliefs strike me as unfair and unreasonable to his followers.

I think his followers were simply credulous, 95% were not nuts, simply under his spell.

Yet BEHOLD now, how at least 50% of the country is under a different spell at a different time.

It seems that even good people can fall victim to this.

Did they deserve to all burn to death?

Not in a million years.