As with Ruby Ridge, I'll never forget how "our" government agents murdered people for no sufficient reason and then not only escaped punishment but were promoted.
Just a few notes based on FOIA released information in a brief article here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/waco_the_untold_story.htmlWaco: The Untold StoryOne excerpt:
The official explanation for why the ATF did not peacefully arrest David Koresh was that he was a paranoid recluse who never left the Davidian building; a sudden, forceful, raid was the only way to root him out. The ATF had installed undercover agents in a house across the street from the Davidians, but they weren't sure what Koresh looked like and never saw him leave.
This explanation was a complete fabrication. An ATF "Report of Investigation," filed by the undercover agents in the nearby house, reports how they spent February 19, nine days before the raid.
They had gone shooting.
With David Koresh.
At the outset, the agents had all the guns (until they loaned Koresh a pistol – he was, after all, providing them with ammunition). The report was approved all the way up to the special agent in charge, who would command the raid. ATF management knew that a peaceful arrest would have been easy to arrange – if they wanted it that way.
ATF management did not. At this point, it was a beleaguered agency, wracked by scandals, with a new administration promising to "reinvent government" by doing away with small, inefficient agencies. The beginning of the ATF's appropriation cycle was under two weeks away. ATF management desperately needed lots of good publicity, the type that a dramatic raid would generate and a quiet arrest would not.
[The local sheriff has also said he knew Koresh and saw him frequently in town and spoke to him on rather friendly terms. He claims he could have easily arrested Koresh without any problems at all.]