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Didn't see it, but my guess is Netflix white washed the actions of the FBI and Janet Reno, who was horrible, horrible person and acted like a tyrant here. She should have lost her job over this, but she probably had some dirt on Clinton so she stayed.
Curious if any of David's own kids survived?
Great story.
Everyone has gun in such remote area. Govt created issue out if nothing.
They didn’t white wash the actions of the FBI, but just made Reno look like a clueless idiot. Like she just rubber stamped the fbi.
Had Timothy McVeigh not killed children, I think he would have been spared the death penalty. If the jury, in his trial, had seen the series, they might have even found him to be temporarily insane due to justified rage.
that wasn't enough for the government to do what they didWhat I remember from the time is that the operative was "child abuse" charges which during the hysteria of the McMartin and Amerault cases raging in the 80's and 90's, could justify any action, which included fire bombing the place, and Janet Reno thought this would be a nice feather in her cap. Both cases were examples of mass hysteria with no foundations in fact. One of the cases, I think the McMartin one, was the longest criminal trial in US history, ten years, that ended in acquittal for all parties.
Koresh managed to convince a community of 100+ people that he was the messiah and that all the married men should be celibate while he slept with all their wives because that’s what God wanted.
Anyway, lots of controversy regarded whether the federal and state governments overstepped their bounds with the use of unnecessary force.
Timothy McVeigh later states that his primary reason for the Oklahoma City bombing was in response to the government’s handling of Waco two years earlier. He executes the bombing on the 2yr anniversary of Waco.