It seems by the answers to frankalan's question about Waco, most of you that did answer, that it was ok and right to murder the children so long as the A. T. F. got their man. I hope for your sake that a teacher in a classroom with your children in it doesn't break the law. Or would it be O.K. to murder your children to get the teacher? Is that what you want your children murdered by the police so they can get their man?????????????
2006-09-18 13:16:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Anyone that wanted to leave the compound did, 19 children and later 4 adults left. No one was held hostage!!! The A. T. F. burned and murder these children in cold blood, just to get 1 man. The warrant was for 1 man only on a weapons charge. OH, and no, I wouldn't want my children murder by the police so they could get their man. After all, THAT WAS THE QUESTION!!!!
2006-09-18 13:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by frankalan9999 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The absolutely outrageous crimminal murders at Waco by
Federal Law Enforcement authorities as well as this same
type of misbehaviour by the Feds at Ruby Ridge will never be forgotten despite government efforts to "spin" history in their favor.
2006-09-18 20:27:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Koresh and his followers killed the children -
Although several of the surviving Branch Davidians insist that they did not start the fire, a panel of arson investigators concluded that the Davidians were responsible for igniting it, simultaneously, in at least three different areas of the compound. Unless they were deliberatley set, the probability of the three fires starting almost simultaneously was highly unlikely, according to fire experts. Furthermore, the videotapes show the use of accelerants that strongly increased the spread of the fire. Although one Branch Davidian stated that a FBI tank had tipped over a lantern, videotapes show that the tank had struck the building a minute and a half before the fire began. Also some of the surviving Davidians' clothing showed evidence of lighter fluid and other accelerants. In addition, FBI listening devices seemed to establish that the Davidians were overheard making statements such as, "Spread the fuel," some six hours before the fires began. (Joint Hearing of the Crime Subcommittee July 1995.)
If you think Koresh was such a great person...read on
The issue of whether David Koresh sexually and physically abused children in the compound is also not entirely resolved. Koresh acknowledged on a videotape sent out of the compound during the standoff that he had fathered more than 12 children by several "wives" who were as young as 12 or 13 when they became pregnant.
A review of Waco events published by the Justice Department in October 1993 concludes, "Evidence suggested that Koresh had 'wives' who were in their mid-teens, that Koresh told detailed and inappropriate sexual stories in front of the children during his Bible study sessions, and that Koresh taught the young girls that it was a privilege for them to become old enough (i.e., reach puberty) to have sex with him." (Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas February 28 to April 19, 1993.)
There is considerable evidence as well that Koresh harshly disciplined the children in the compound. According to affidavits obtained by the FBI from several former Branch Davidians and from Dr. Bruce Perry, a psychiatrist who examined several Branch Davidian children, Koresh beat young children with a wooden spoon or withheld food for as much as a day to punish them.
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Volleyballchick,
Yes I read. As does everyone else. The difference is we don't read fiction except for entertainment. Stay away from conspiracy pages.
2006-09-18 20:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by Q-burt 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dude. . . Do you read?
The children that died in Waco were shot. Now, since the "deaths" happened during the fire, did the ATF shoot the bodies after the fire???
David K. killed the children. He wanted to spare them the "demoralizing" they would have to be victims to by being told he was not the "lamb of God". And those children's parents thought that was the right thing to do. Maybe one needs to attack the parents of children that sacrifice their offspring to the wack jobs out there for the sake of religion.
2006-09-18 21:06:07 · answer #4 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Waco was not OK.
It was an evil and illegal act that was covered up by creating all these lies about Koresh.
The men who participated and Janet Reno should have been tried and sent to prison for this murder.
2006-09-18 20:26:52 · answer #5 · answered by DJ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Everybody thinks that Waco was ok because it was a democrat president, if only Clinton could had gone after Bin Laden like that.
2006-09-18 20:19:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You apparently forgot that the Koresh bunch-similar to the Jim Jones bunch-decided to take their own lives when they knew the ATF wasnt backing down- according to the post-mortem reports.
2006-09-18 20:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by KEITH G 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I missed that whole thing except one thing - your intellegence
they did not kill the children David Koresh did
Janet Reno made mistakes but that wasn't one of them
dude i remember
2006-09-18 20:21:15 · answer #8 · answered by yars232c 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
This is precisely the case that I make against those that defend Israel's indiscriminate murder of women and children in their quest for the Hezbollah freedom fighters.
2006-09-18 20:21:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well seeing as how the idiot David Koresh using his brain washed minions had the fires started himself I don't know why you act like the government was so wrong. The blame lies on him. But I suppose I'm wasting my time telling that to an anti government conspiracy freak are'nt I
2006-09-18 20:21:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋