Your's is a sick BIG LIE created and promulgated by a government which also referred to Christians as a cult (Janet Reno, speaking for the rapist), the Branch Davidians were a peaceful, Second Amendment conscious group of Christians. David Koresh was in the town of Waco regularly. Had 'peace' officers wanted to arrest him for any of the false allegations raised against the Davidians, it could have happened peacefully in town.
You choose to put aside the fact the ATF's budget was before Congress, and there was serious talk of merging the entire department within the Justice Department. Recall also this was a highly planned media event staged to impress Congress to keep the ATF alive.....standing proudly atop a hill of dead children, women and male American Citizens. The central government unleashes a horrifying take-no-prisoners holocaust designed to intimidate law abiding Americans under the benign banner to "....protect the children....". The message is cannon loud, and it's achievement glowed in the ambers of Mount Carmel.
Medals all 'round. A job well done. Bulldoze the evidence. Well done if murdering and burning children to death is your definition of a warrior.
Evangelist David Koresh was a Christian. His respect for the Word of God greatly exceeded the children killing government atheists who referred to hearing "Bible babble".
Stinky - I'm sticking out my tongue, along with my clinched fist and a Rockefeller salute. I will forever remember - and never forgive - the cold blooded sniper murder of a mother holding her baby, and the killing of her son by shooting him in the back as he ran from the government killers at Ruby Ridge - who got promotions and medals for their capital offense. The same inhuman barbarian mind-set was awarded medals and promotions after American Citizens, men, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN were forced back into the Waco inferno by government killers. The horror and unspeakable terror felt by the children, the mothers and fathers while being burned to death superceded Hitler's murders. He either shot them or gassed them before he burned their bodies.
Hitler also promoted and pinned metals on his killers of women and children as well. The black side of Nazi Germany history reliving itself in America.
Tell that to the men and women who were killed to rid the world of Hitler.
Who would think in 1945 that a future 'American'government would not only condone, but reward 'peace' officers with medals and promotions for killing American Citizens in their homes during 'mistaken' drug raids; murder an unarmed mother holding her child; shot a boy in the back; or force men women and children to suffer an agonizing death by fire by denying them an escape to safety from a burning inferno.
Damn the rapist and his entire gang of lifetime appointments of judicial and law enforcement atheists, as well as anybody in government attempting to strip Americans of our right to defend ourselves from the present diabolically deceptive oligarchical government by force of arms.
The rest of your screed notwithstanding, Vernon Howell was a psychotic loser who nevertheless knew how to appeal to weak-willed people who hated themselves and who would have believed you if you had told them you were Jesus Christ.
You connect "guns" to a church, and you don't have Christianity - you wind up with a stupid cult - something akin to the World Church of the Creator or some other trailer trash paradise.
Vernon Howell preached a scripture written in crayon and inserted for the pages they ripped out.
Here's where I disagree. I don't think the JBT want to kill anybody.
I think they were assuming that Koresh would either refuse to answer the front door, or slam it in the face of the verloren hoop, providing justification under "knock and announce" rules for the dynamic entry by the assault team at the rear of the building.
Because Koresh was an "evil cult leader" who kept all the weapons "under his personal control", his presence at the front door would mean the assault team would easily take control of the building, and the "woulda, shoulda, coulda" result would be: no fatalities, mucho pictures of "cultists" led away in manacles, and large amounts of "illegal weapons" seized (which given the success of the raid, wouldn't be examined too closely.
Of course with no co-ordination between the front door team, the rear assault team, the "animal control" team, and the airborne "fire suppression" team, when any one of them opened fire, the other three immediately assumed that they were under attack, and apocalypse.