They could have arrested Koresh anytime when he went into to town.
“They could have arrested Koresh anytime when he went into to town.”
Yup. That would have been how it would have been done in the pre Clinton days.
All the Feds had to do was keep a low profile and be patient.
One of the trademarks of dumb moves is the failure to differentiate between urgent and important.
The gun violations might be important (debatable but possible) but they were definitely not urgent.
He was a runner.
He ran by within 20 feet of a government lookout post every day alone, and
unarmed.
He and the sheriff would meet for coffee.
I do believe Koresh was tweaked, but that’s not an actionable offense.
That original BATF raid was one of the most ill conceived and poorly executed
government actions ever.
As for the Randy Weaver situation, it was also a massive cluster F.
Government employees should have gone to prison in each situation.