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...negotiators had unintentionally caused the Branch Davidians to sanitize possible court evidence -- scrubbing away blood, sweeping up spent cartridges and reducing automatic guns back to semiautomatics. The FBI denied the report. The Davidians,too, employed a kind of spin control that implied something will remain intact to spin. David Koresh's attorneys talked about contesting some government assertions -- in court -- and described in detail a surrender scheduled after the group's Passover. Koresh also deputized two New York City lawyers to handle his book, television and movie rights, hardly the act of a man contemplating martyrdom...
...Alas, matters degenerated. First, the Davidians distanced themselves from the Passover pledge. Then a cult member tried to climb out a compound window after dark, apparently breaching an agreement with the fbi. When agents upbraided Koresh over it, he cursed them. As if to symbolize the new low in communications, they hung...
Judging pro-life activism by the actions of its most violent adherents is about as justified as judging Christianity by David Koresh. Even Randall Terry, head of the controversial Operation Rescue organization, was not condoning Gunn's assassin so much as pointing out a perceived hypocrisy when he noted that those who were outraged at Gunn's murder had condoned the murder of the fetuses he aborted...
...Koresh passed. He may have a more spectacular event in mind. In a phone call to the Today show made from McLennan County jail, Brad Branch, one of 14 adults who have left the compound since the siege started, said last week that Koresh wanted a television appearance with other famous religious figures -- to engage them in a contest of biblical interpretation. "He wants to put on a challenge to all the churches and all the heads," Branch explained. "The Pope, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson...
...point last week, negotiators considered blasting Koresh with repeated playings of the Billy Ray Cyrus song Achy Breaky Heart. Eventually they thought better of it. There is, after all, a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment...