[BitBucket]

In actuality the standoff was a carefully timed creation of the BATF. The BATF decided to make headlines with multiple arrests just as a Congressional committee held hearings to determine the BATF budget.

Yep. And don't forget this was in the aftermath of the Ruby Ridge "incident". The feds had a black eye and needed to repair their image. They knew they could count on the media to portray a strange isolated religious cult as some kind of monsters and the government agents as heros.

[Oztrich Boy]

Yep. And don't forget this was in the aftermath of the Ruby Ridge "incident". The feds had a black eye and needed to repair their image.

Nothing to do with Ruby Ridge

At the end of 1992 the fecal matter was beginning to hit the rotary impeller about the 1992 Good O' Boy Roundup

The BAFT needed a distraction ASAP - definitely before the budget came up