Posted on 02/19/2023 6:00:41 AM PST by fruser1
US government agents had been tipped off about the cult by a postal driver alarmed by the number of guns he had been delivering to the group's headquarters.
Special agent Davy Aguilera had concluded that the Branch Davidians had been illegally converting AR-15 rifles from semi-automatic to automatic weapons, without applying for the required licences or paying the taxes due.
Spooked by rumours that cult members were planning a mass suicide at Passover, amid reports of child abuse against under-age girls, ATF agents began in July 1992 to lay the groundwork for the biggest operation in the agency's history.
The ATF agents even tipped off TV reporters, leading to near-disaster when a cameraman who asked a Davidian for directions to the compound let slip that he was in town to film an imminent raid on the cult.
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I just remember thinking “no one did anything about the FBI burning up babies and little children.” I’ve never trusted in militias or Qs since. We are on our own.
It wasn’t the massacre that was important, it was the Message.
The medium is the Message.
Massacre was the medium.
The Message was “See what we can do anytime we wish. Be a good citizen or we’ll do it to you.”
I don’t think I said they did. The govt said they did.
They didn’t pay the tax.
Feds get uppity when they can’t steal what’s their’s./sarc
Yeah, I understood that...it’s just so tragic, and no accountability.
They lied.
I listened to a UPS driver while I worked there about what happened to initiate the entire debacle. If I recall correctly, the BATF produced BROKEN semi-automatic rifles that were probably being repaired to justify their claim.
Nope. OKC would have never happened.
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