You're wrong, the evidence doesn't show that, and it was the Davidians THEMSELVES that performed this act.
Admission by Gramme Craddack (sp?), a Daviadian who made it out, confirms this, but, of course, you, blinded by your rage and hopelessly bowled over by the continuing 'hype' on this subject MISS this little item.
Instead, you put complete and continuing faith in a dubious work produced by Mike McNutty and a small group of ex-CNNers and those who used to produce "A Current Affair" ...
CONTINUED OBLIVIOUSNESS to the 'facts' are only going to cause you nothing but lasting anger TOWARDS the wrong people and continue to twist your thinking in directions OTHERS would have you go; for it was Vernon Wayne Howell who:
a) held a number of people mental hostage (some, the potential troublemakers were 'allowed' to leave by Vernon Wayne Howell - Note: those children 'allowed to leave' were *not* his progeny, it was his kids who he kept in the compound)
b) finally called for the 'Armageddon Event' and had the fires lit CULMINATING in the deaths of 80 some people he had 'held' there for 51 days ...