Comments on: Deja Vu All Over Again

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:27:30 +0000

Michael, the local sheriff can’t deliver or execute a Federal warrant. Given that the warrant was based on solid evidence from United Parcel Service records that they had machine guns in the compound, the rules of engagement were rather clear.

The paramilitary stage was after Federal officers were killed and wounded while attempting to serve a warrant. The local and state law enforcement officials refused to get involved with reports of assault with a deadly weapon and child abuse that had been occurring for an extended period.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:13:30 +0000

The BD’s paranoia is not what got people killed in Waco. The local sheriff was perfectly capable of serving a warrant and nobody would have been killed if the feds didn’t decide to make it a paramilitary operation.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:33:53 +0000

The Texas officials should have dealt with the problems in Waco years before anyone else became involved, and before the place became the military outpost that the BATF ran into when they attempted to serve their warrant.

The theology may be different, but the paranoia is the same, and that’s what gets people killed.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:30:30 +0000

The BD raid was (para)military and was a clusterfucktastrophe from the beginning.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:28:03 +0000

The Branch Davidians were a Seventh Day Adventist sect, this is a Mormon sect. Different theology there, so you have to deal with them on different sets of fundamental premises.