Word: koresh
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...their jurisdiction. I had other responsibilities to attend to. I thought it was already being taken care of by the Justice Department." Attorney General Janet Reno, he pointed out, made the decision to stage the final April 1993 raid that ended with a conflagration in which cult leader David Koresh and 80 of his Branch Davidian followers were killed. Republicans questioned how a treasury secretary could not have known of such a large operation being planned by one of his agencies. Said Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.): "This is quite an operation and I'm just disappointed that your people...
...scale and with the level of secrecy and precision the militias envision. After all, government is run by the same people who once paid $640 for toilet-seat covers, who went ahead with the initial raid on the Branch Davidians even though they knew David Koresh had been forewarned, who couldn't figure out that Aldrich Ames was selling secrets to the Soviet Union even when the $70,000-a-year cia officer moved into a half-million-dollar mansion and began driving to work in a spiffy new Jaguar. While government might seem faceless and all-powerful to outsiders...
...bombing related to the conflagration at David Koresh's compound in Waco, Texas, which had happened exactly two years before? Are the bombers extremists? Or are they white supremacists? These questions have occupied most of the discussion of this tragedy, but they are not really relevant...
...Koresh is dead, after all, and will remain dead; people who bomb Federal buildings and murder children are all extremists. It is simply an issue of definition. It is irrelevant that they are white supremacists, since we need no more evidence than their most recent action to convict them of moral decrepitude...
...against citizens, perhaps for the first time." Doyle has done much to keep the memory of Waco alive. He is the informal leader of the 10 or so sect members who still live near Waco, and he leads the group in religious services every Saturday; some worshippers reportedly expect Koresh to be resurrected. Until that happens, Doyle is the unofficial supervisor of the Mount Carmel site, and last week also oversaw the planting of a grove of crape myrtle trees there. Nothing, though, has revived the memory of Waco like the horror that supplanted it last week...