the only difference at waco MIGHT have been the fact we may have had a competant attourney general running the show. i still think armed conflict with the dividians was ineviatable at some level.

they were well armed, prepared and motivated,not to mention a bit looney. the government doesn't like people like that and will go out of it's way to neutralise them.

i think a bit of fault on both the .gov and the BD's. eventually it WOULD have come to a boiling point. like it or not the BD were a fringe cult. they were well prepared and well armed. I do not think they were a real threat to anyone at that point and like other cults would have likely disbanded down the road given the time.

the .gov seems to have no real grasp on how to deal with such elements of our society other than armed conflict. they pressed and fucked this one up REALLLLLLY bad. the govenment saw them as a threat plain and simple and took them out. if they really just wanted koresh there were multiple easy attempts to get him off compound. Waco was nothing more than a publicity stunt for the .gov. they tried to show off and got their asses handed to them. to save face they killed as many as possible and burned the place to the ground.

Government today is about control of the masses. When a man like koresh comes along and challenges that, and begins to arm prepare and train for armeggedon, he is conflict with the .gov's agenda's.

Waco was a good show of what will happen in a second armed revolution. A small prepared,motivated and trained group simply will not be able to withstand a military response. Yes i consider WACO a military operation not a police operation. Military equipment,tacticis and advisors were on scene.