Thing is, so many locals here were happy to support them.
The ATF could have grabbed the leader any time they wanted when he came into town as he normally did. Instead they wanted a publicity raid and they got their asses handed to them on a silver platter.
Then comes the whole regime down on the compound, ATF, FBI, local and state - even Lon (Ruby Ridge) Horiuchi was there.
Not often mentioned is the MILITARY was there, supposedly in an ‘advisory’ role. Yeah, we’ve seen ‘advisory’ before, Viet Nam was riddled with it at the beginning.
The bottom line is that any force that does anything to sieged civilians that ends up in multiple child deaths has no excuse. Everyone on the government side connected with that massacre should have been in prison a long time ago.