[Fifth Business]

We would all be happy to hear about some realistic alternatives, but with Vernon Wayne Howell I don't believe or think there was ANY possible way he was going back into the pokey ...

I had heard, and perhaps there is someone who could verify this, that Koresh regularly left the compound to go shopping. This was before he was put under siege, of course. Couldn't he have been lured off-site to buy some grenade launchers?

[_Jim]

, that Koresh regularly left the compound to go shopping.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight ... that's what all that staff he had was for ...

[Chancellor Palpatine]

If he got a good rate, he'd surely have gone to buy them.

Of course, then again, the "true believers" here would insist on the Constimatooshkinal right of everyone to own a grenade launcher.

[Henrietta]

"I had heard, and perhaps there is someone who could verify this, that Koresh regularly left the compound to go shopping. This was before he was put under siege, of course. Couldn't he have been lured off-site to buy some grenade launchers?"

Of course, but then the Feds wouldn't have been able to throw on the black clothing, dust off the automatic weapons, and go play ninja. Why do things the easy way when you can play with your cool equipment instead?

[carenot]

I had heard, and perhaps there is someone who could verify this, that Koresh regularly left the compound to go shopping.

He did, and the Sheriff drank coffee with him most every morning. The Davidians were law abiding people.

The FBI agents (2 of them) came to the "compound" and shot David's Rifles using his ammo. I forget their names. 2 of them. And thay found nothing wrong there.

They had walked through the house and met some of the people that lived there.

There was no drugs and no child abuse.