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...longer merely the headquarters for the Freemen's crooked amalgam of extremism and thievery. It's also the first major testing ground for federal law enforcement in the nervous aftermath of two disasters--the deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian inferno near Waco, Texas, in which more than 75 people were killed. In its handling of such standoffs, the Justice Department is at pains to re-establish the line between force and recklessness. The word this time is play it cool and play it down. Attorney General Janet Reno, who took...
...Clark, who is lured from booze and drugs into the bunkers of a Colorado religious cult. On first seeing this ramshackle structure, he thinks "this would go up like bales of hay if it ever started to burn." Sure enough, in a sequence closely modeled on the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff and tragedy in Waco, Texas, the torches arrive...
McVeigh has claimed he visited the Branch Davidian compound near Waco during the federal siege that ended in fire and death on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. "It was very poorly handled," he says. Was it Waco that set him off on a path through Arizona and on to Kansas, where he allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the bomb, and then to Oklahoma City, where eyewitnesses saw him on the morning of the explosion? Will his trial, sometime in 1996, exonerate him? And if not, will it somehow make comprehensible the mind...
...alleged bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was reportedly motivated by the mishandling of the federal government assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. If Ben-Shachar is to eliminate the possibility of speech ever causing violence, all sources of news therefore should have been censored, even before anyone was aware of how the siege would end. It is difficult to see how any communication at all could take place in Ben-Shachar's regime, as someone somewhere might take some element of some speech as a reason to engage in some act of violence. If this is Ben-Shachar...
Amid continued partisan sniping, the House hearings on the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...