I might add...3 of those residents had class 3 federal firearms licenses....so posession of any said weapons would be LEGAL...
Funny thing how that front door...logged into evidence...just up and disappeared...
And the intersting discrepancy about "free fire" into the compound...seeing as the Marshals truthfully told of finding "huge piles of spent brass" in the observation posts after the final assault...on a building full of children...
Sure Koresh was wacked...but he never failed to make a court appearance...and twice a week jogged outside the compound...
He was easy pickin's if he really was the goal...
My solution to the whole mess was to simply put up a fence and a couple gaurd towers...call us when you decide to come out...
But that wouldnt have sent a message...or the provocation associated with that message...
Yup, lots of very odd "discrepancies". The Feds were especially upset when the Texas Rangers and state troopers, who the Feds had left cleanup to when it all fell apart and they left in a hurry, came back with carefully catalogued and preserved evidence (what the Feds had left behind, that is). Seems the Feds didn't get *all* of the evidence they were trying to hide to cover up their mistakes and ineptitude.
Koresh said repeatedly that if someone wished to seach the premises, all they had to do was show up peacably with a warrant and they would be allowed in to do what they wanted. ATF/FBI decided to do things fast and violent, and it didn't work out for them. Koresh was wholly insane, but he made a special particular point about not breaking the law.
Yeah, backing off and simply waiting (which most sensible people would do) wouldn't send the message of "if you resist, even if we're breaking the law and violating your rights, too bad, we're the Feds and you should obey us, peon."
"Koresh was wacked"----What made the situation so dangerous was Janet Reno was also "wacked".