Waco sect leader's mother killed

BBC ^ | 1/25/09

[LibWhacker]

The mother of the notorious Waco sect leader David Koresh has been found stabbed to death at the house of a sister in Texas, police say.

Bonnie Clark Halderman, who was in her sixties, was found dead at the home of Beverly Clark who has been taken into custody pending a court appearance.

Police say they have no idea of a possible motive for her death.

[I see my hands]

When a son is fire bombed to death by ones own government there likely will be enduring angst in the extended family.

[Paladin2]

BBC?

Should be the NYT or Waco Journal or BATF newletter or Janet Reno's blog reporting.

[red-dawg]

notorious Waco sect leader..

Passing judgment in a supposedly objective report.
No bias there I see. (rolls eyes)

[al baby]

CLINTONS FAULT !!!!

[Richard Kimball]

Waco paper doesn’t cover actual news. Nice guys, and I occasionally have work in the paper, but they primarily go to pre-publicized events and write stories from press releases.

[bill1952]

Janet Reno back?

[AnalogReigns]

Regardless of Janet Reno’s infamous response, any “conservative” who doesn’t agree that Koresh was a complete wack-job, and yes infamous (remember the part about how he shot what, 5 ATF agents clearly identified, that started the whole standoff?) has some serious issues.

Am I defending Reno-and-Co’s treatment of the Koresh standoff? No, not at all. But not to acknowledge Koresh as a seriously dangerous nut-job, and his religion as a twisted sub-Christian cult....is to be perilously like him yourself.

Koresh is a “conservative hero” only as much as say John Brown was in 1859...which is to say, not at all.

You tube links about Koresh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRcAd4plJZ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc9oB_v1giI

[Morgana]

no.....I believe that one was JANET RENO’S FAULT.....but....clinton did put that idiot in power.

[Sherman Logan]

There is a case to be made that John Brown’s actions at Harper’s Ferry were morally and intellectually defensible, being based directly on the principles in the Declaration of Independence.

Of course, they were in practice a horrible idea and led directly to secession and our Civil War.

Koresh was just a perverted nutjob out for himself. That’s something JB was never accused of. Say what you like about old John, he certainly wasn’t operating out of self-interest.

[Oztrich Boy]

(remember the part about how he shot what, 5 ATF agents clearly identified, that started the whole standoff?)

Actually no. The only ATF agents shot were assaulting the rear of the building at the same time as Koresh was being shot by the ATF at the front door.

[mad_as_he$$]

The part many, including you, seem to miss is that the whole thing was avoidable. The local Sheriff told the ATF that he could bring Koresh in with no violence. The ATF wanted to show Congress how effective their new SWAT style team was performing. They were nothing but amateur hour and got a bunch of people hurt and killed - unnecessarily. The BATF needs to be disbanded but that will not happen. Now they work for a tax cheat and the 0 crew. There is another Waco not far off.

Yes Koresh was a nutjob but since when do we kill kids and women because there is a nutjob in the building - since Waco. BTW are you following the case in the SF Bay area where a transit cop shot a restrained man who was on the ground and already tasered and killed him? More of that to come also.