April 19, 1993 - Fed's Slaughter Citizens in Waco

PBS ^ | 1998 | WGBH/Frontline

[ASTM366]

Having been attacked by over 100 armed BATF agents on a Sunday morning in late February 1993, the Branch Davidians, a small band of fundamentalist Christians living at a Church commune near Waco, Texas were surrounded. They had been surrounded for 51 days, subjected to psychological warfare techniques and surrounded by federal law enforcement agents who had lost all patience. What the BATF couldn't accomplish, the FBI was going finish. Despite the presence of innocent infants, children, adolescents and women the FBI ordered a military style attack on the buildings of the compound. The rest is history......

[Johnny Shear]

You say this out of one side of your mouth, and out of the other side you argue that she handled Waco justly. Which for you is true? She is an idiot? Or she is not an idiot and handled Waco just as you would have?

1) Janet Reno is an idiot and will lose to Govenor Bush regardless of Waco.

2) She handled Waco poorly from the start. But, it was the FREAK Branch Davidians who burned themselves to death and killed those children. They made the CHOICE to DIE and took the kids with them.

And you Conspiracy Kooks have the balls to defend them just to further your Government Hating Agendas. As I've already stated...All of you are just marginally better humans than Timothy McVeigh. You disgust and embarrass me because you are also Freepers.

[ActionNewsBill]

Please respond to Johnny Shear's post's....I have run out of patience for his childish rants. Thank you.

[Johnny Shear]

First, it was not a compound. It was a church and it was their home. Secondly, if you would give up your child to the men who have already killed some of your family, then that speaks volumes for your parental instinct. Please never have children. Children deserve parents who will protect and defend them til death.

Oh this is PRICELESS! You're saying that those children deserved to be burned to death simply because their parents were a bunch of FREAKS???

Again...You're only a marginally better human than Timothy McVeigh.

[proudofthesouth]

I say a silent prayer for those innocents who died at Waco every April 19th. I for one will NOT forget them or how they died and WHO killed them.

[ActionNewsBill]

Please post any information or facts that will back up your claims. Thank you.

[jammer]

Please change your name to "The Christmas Goose". Your comment is not only ignorant, but repugnant. Cato would be ashamed to have you as a namesake.

[ActionNewsBill]

Please take the time to read and respond to Johnny Shear's posts....I have been debating him all night, and have yet to make an impression on his feeble, deluded mind. Thank you.

[Johnny Shear]

You are exactly correct. Thank you for your sane comments in this sea of conspiracy kook comments.

[asneditor]

Fools like Johnny will never learn because they have been force fed government pablum and refuse to ever see the truth. The only way the truth will ever get to them is when there church isn't ATF approved.

[ActionNewsBill]

Having been attacked by over 100 armed BATF agents on a Sunday morning in late February 1993, the Branch Davidians, a small band of fundamentalist Christians living at a Church commune near Waco, Texas were surrounded. They had been surrounded for 51 days, subjected to psychological warfare techniques and surrounded by federal law enforcement agents who had lost all patience. What the BATF couldn't accomplish, the FBI was going finish. Despite the presence of innocent infants, children, adolescents and women the FBI ordered a military style attack on the buildings of the compound. The rest is history......

Please post information you have that proves these facts to be false. Thank you.

[takenoprisoner]

...because their parents were a bunch of FREAKS???

Why do you insist on calling them "freaks?" Because they were different from you? You disagree with their religion? They weren't "mainstream" enough for you?

Maybe you don't like the fact they made money and in part supported themselves thru the legal enterprize of gun dealing? An enterprize quiet popular in Texas and elsewhere thruout this nation.

What you are saying is that people who support the second amendment are kooks and freaks. And you have the ordasity to call yourself a conservative?

What you are saying is that folks don't have a right to worship in a manner not proscribed and accepted by you. And you have the ordasity to call yourself a conservative?

No way are you a conservative. No need to pretend any more.

[ActionNewsBill]

Please take the time to read and respond to Johnny Shear's posts....I have been debating him all night, and have yet to make an impression on his feeble, deluded mind. Thank you.

[asneditor]

Government Kills Children At Waco
Take a good look at these. Are you proud of your government? If so I guess you will meet Reno in friends in hell.

[Johnny Shear]

Why do you insist on calling them "freaks?"

Because they killed themselves and burned thier children ALIVE when they could have simply WALKED OUT and lived. And this was AFTER some of them had MURDERED innocent government officials who were simply DOING THEIR JOBS!!!

What part of that DON'T you understand???

[Proud_texan]

David Koresh and the parents of those children are the one's who killed them.

So you think that any time there's a hostage situation law enforcement should disregard any possible harm to the hostages in their response and, if there's any collaterial damage, it's the fault of the hostage takers?

Is that standard law enforcement procedure?

[Johnny Shear]

And you have the ordasity to call yourself a conservative?

Actually, I call myself a Broken-Glass Republican. And NOT a Freak Conspiracy Kook.

[asneditor]

Yup! you are glass all right. We can see right through your nonsense.

[ActionNewsBill]

Hello infowars....cool name, you must be an Alex Jones fan. Me too!

Please take the time to read and respond to Johnny Shear's posts....I have been debating him all night, and have yet to make an impression on his feeble, deluded mind, and I could use a little help. Thank you.

[proudofthesouth]

Koresh and his followers were set up. It was well known that Koresh frequently left the "compound" and went into Waco to conduct business. He had in fact done that just a few days prior to the Feds attacking him and his followers.