The ATF could have grabbed the leader any time they wanted when he came into town as he normally did. Instead they wanted a publicity raid and they got their asses handed to them on a silver platter.
Then comes the whole regime down on the compound, ATF, FBI, local and state - even Lon (Ruby Ridge) Horiuchi was there.
Not often mentioned is the MILITARY was there, supposedly in an ‘advisory’ role. Yeah, we’ve seen ‘advisory’ before, Viet Nam was riddled with it at the beginning.
The bottom line is that any force that does anything to sieged civilians that ends up in multiple child deaths has no excuse. Everyone on the government side connected with that massacre should have been in prison a long time ago.
Absolutely correct.
The feds found easy pickin’s in Waco because the town’s people had been watching a circus of lawsuits for years as the splinter groups of Seventh Day Adventist’s fought over that property. Instead of being horrified at the illegal military incursion the citizen zombies just sat back, ate popcorn, and continued to watch the circus. Just like good Romans. WalMart and every neighborhood convenience store made money on their items of “Support the ATF” and big banners out front welcoming the thugs. Ignorance. And the vast majority still blame Vernon Howell aka David Koresh instead of the invading forces if the Clinton Crime Family for the deaths.
I had friends in Waco who remember Koresh cruising the strip (Valley Mills?) in his camaro on Friday/Saturday nights. He would talk/preach in parking lots to the local kids. He would bring some people to the Health Club (a burger joint) from the compound as well. They would hand out literature about the end times and such.
Point is, they could have grabbed him any old time in town.