Posted on 01/25/2009 3:18:49 AM PST by JoeProBono
The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt was in custody on a murder charge yesterday. Bonnie Clark Halderman, 60, was found Friday at the Texas home of her sister, Beverly Clark, in a rural area near Chandler, Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said. "It's still under investigation, and we really don't know what the motive was," Nutt said. In 1993, a standoff at the Branch Davidians' compound outside Waco ended when the complex caught fire and burned to the ground, killing Koresh and nearly 80 of his followers.
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“The deaths included women and children and all of the deaths were completely unnecessary.”
Particularly considering they could have just waited him out and arrested him when he left the compound, which he did routinely. If you watch the initial attack by the ATF you will see one of the most amateurish and botched raids in the history of law enforcement.
Amen. A fiasco brought to you by the BATF on a budget hunt. The fiasco should have been worthy of disbanding the agency. That didn’t happen, in fact not much of nothing happened but the people roast x number of days later. Ironically at the hands of the FBI.
You are right about waiting Koresh out. There was no excuse or reason for the raid other than someones insane desire to appear macho and provide some excuse for atf budget increases.nI’m thinking they seriously underestimated what the American people were willing to put up with. Home invasion wasn’t one of them.
“Home invasion wasn’t one of them.”
And i think the same rules applied in Ruby Ridge. After refusing several times, they got him to saw off a shotgun, then tried to arrest him. When that failed they surrounded him for days and killed his wife and son. His crime was not sawing off a shotgun, but refusing to be an informant. It’s what always makes me leery of big government.
It’s what always makes me leery of big government.
Retirements, attrition, and firing (no pun intended), must have gotten rid of a bunch of bad eggs in both the FBI and ATF, which is not to say that the same trumped up charges used in the WACO and Ruby Ridge cases, could very easily be used to entice law enforcement to overstep the bounds that rein them in. Lot of media hype and BS in both those cases.
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