The stand-off would have a “carrot and stick” design, the commanders said.
Sounds great, right?
But the teams were seperate and grew from totally different dispositions: The Carrot Group were social scientist/psychologist types —academic clinicians who loved taking notes and talking.
Meanwhile The Stick Team were basically military soldiers brought on-scene because Posse Comitatus (permission of soldiers used in police actions) has a drug exception, and one of the federal lies about the Davidians besides gun-running, bank-robbery and child-molestation was that they were also engaged in the business of drug-dealing.
This is also how the ATF were permitted to undergo military training at Fort Hood beforehand:
The FBI commando team had pushed the media back so far that there was no civilian scrutiny. Soon a gun-heavy summer camp atmosphere prevailed; the bored commandos had full reign on-site to terrorize the beseiged at their leisure, Lon Horiuchi was even said to be sniping individual Davidians from time to time.
The FBI didn’t disguise it’s contempt for squinty, scribbling shrinks and the shrinks regarded the commandos as nazis —the two sides barely communicated.
This placed nicely into Koresh’s focus on the Book of Revelation, which describes evil forcus that act crazy and test the faith of True Belivers.
The FBI’s objective was to weaken Koresh and his believers but instead their strategy was the perfect force to instead strengthen them.
Almost 100 people died in the fire.
Would they have done this, had it been a MOSQUE..?
10 minute YouTube analysis of the initial Waco shootout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPspqauEeC4
The KKK offered their assistance to the authorities during the siege. Something the media never seems to find worth mentioning these days.