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...considered "inventory" became "stockpiles." A "sect" became a "cult." Since the documentary is itself a form of the media, it shows a great deal of interest in the manipulation and withholding of this information. "God help us, we want the press" even became a dire plea by the Branch Davidians...
...Gazecki, the greatest crime by the ATF is misrepresentation of the Branch Davidians and of its own motives. The ATF claimed that the raid on the compound was an anti-drug raid, despite evidence to the contrary. The film goes to great lengths and largely succeeds in laying bare the false intentions...
...uses a variety of sources, even bringing in disturbing autopsy footage to suggest other breaches by the ATF. The film becomes jarring and shocking at these points, usually credits for a film. Yet this shock value obscures some of the facts of the case. The mass suicide by the Branch Davidians is insufficiently covered. The gratuitous use of graphic images disgusts the viewer, implying that the ATF was automatically complicit simply because the Davidians died so gruesomely...
Waco: The Rules of Engagement contains an admirable sympathy for those Branch Davidians who died in 1993. But in making humans out of villains, the film falls prey to the vilification that it hopes to counteract...
...Harvard branch of Amnesty International also plans to protest Jiang's speech, but the organization has yet to work out the details, according to Karen M. Paik '99, the co-president, who is also a Crimson editor...