So the government decided that the government must shoot and incinerate them to keep them from being poisoned by their leaders???
I told my best friend, a officer with Homeland Security about this and he should watch this.He is quite conservative, but told no, they deserved it, even the kids. Hopefully that isn't all of the LEO opinions.
You missed the part where I said nothing excuses what was done at WACO. If the Government moved in because of concerns of a mass murder/ suicide that does not justify the method they used. But I do not think and never said these concerns were valid.
For one thing there is really nothing that supports the idea that the Branch Davidians were considering mass murder/suicide. At Jonestown Jim Jones ran suicide drills and binded his followers to him using standard brainwashing techniques. After Congressman Ryan was killed Jones told his follwers that the Guyanese army and American CIA operatives were going to invade the encampment and kill all the children.
Nothing I have read about Branch Davidians mentions suicide drills. Yes Branch Davidian was a cult and Koresh was its leader. But many believe that David Koresh was willing to end the seige when he finished his Seven Seals prophecy and gave them to the world.
The apologetics index includes links to the CATO report on the government operation. Which it condemns. The report can be found at http://www.apologeticsindex.org/b10a03.html#cato
I did not mean to give the impression I endorsed the gov't raid on WACO. I was trying to say what might have motivated them to ok the raid. But even with the most understandable of motives the means were and remain inexcusable.
The Government was wrong, wrong, wrong. Oh did I mention they were wrong?