Another opinion formed as a result of a failure to read the article or know what truely transpired -
- the Davadians were armed, they fired on those surronding the compound with regularity, they had weaponry up through 50 caliber - YOU tell US what it's safe to be 'riding around in'.
Thats funny the film i have of the event show no firing coming from the compound but atf agents fireing feircly at the compound one agent shot himself in the leg 2 agents go in a window and imediatly after another agent throws in a grenade then returning gunfire comes from the room through the wall looks to me like the atf agents were eliminating each other .
Using outakes of satellite footage shot by a local news station, director Linda Thompson paints a chilling portrait of the ATF and FBI's military assault on the Branch Davidian's compound in Waco. Thompson argues convincingly that the ATF's initial assault on Mt. Carmel was legally grounded on nothing more than a $200 weapons surchage that Koresh had failed to pay. With proof of that in their back pocket, the ATF called out U.S. Army gunships, and attacked the compound with dozens of stoked, reckless agents employing massive gunpower. The footage on this video demonstrates that the Branch Davidians did not meet the ATF with "a hail of gunfire." You'll see unthreatened ATF agents riddling the front of the compound with gunfire, fully aware that inside were dozens of women and children. The ATF had plenty of time to shoot not only the house; they fired on themselves, other agents, children playing outside, long before a Branch Davidian fired a single shot in self defense. The video also details the FBI's effective bamboozlement of a compliant press, but the most controversial part of the tape comes at the end, when Thompson provides footage allegedly showing government tanks with flamethrowers that she contends set the fire that killed all 89 people inside. You may (and should) question some of what this video contends, but it does contain actual footage of a government attacking its own citizens. Not that that hasn't happened before. But now it's on videotape.
Well if safety is the goal, then perhaps they should not have created the situation in the first place. I followed the story very closely while it was happening. The creation of the seige situation itself was the problem. No seige - no need to ride around in tanks.
The Davidians (note spelling) did not fire until they were attacked. I supposed this will be argued from now until eternity, but the ATF had no legal right to do what they did.
Carolyn
Carolyn
But you seem to forget that fact a lot.
L