From the Objectivist perspective there was a clear problem with David Koresh. There was a right way to with deal someone like Koresh and it wasn't followed.
What happened?
The local office of the BATF received a report of automatic weapons fire
at the residence of Branch Davidians outside of Waco, Texas. No
inquiry was made with the local law enforcement agencies. Nor did the BATF
as allowed under the current regulations send agents out to inspect the
federally licenced firearms dealer residing on the site. The BATF could
have arrested Koresh as he made his morning run but did not do so. With his past history of cooperation with local law enforcement the BATF
could have simply asked Koresh to come down to the local sheriff’s station.
Instead the BATF attempted to stage a military style assault, code named
Operation Showtime, in order to impart a positive impression of the
agency upon the current administration in Washington. After the task
force was driven off the Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI, descended upon
the Branch Davidians and laid siege to the residence.
On the day of the massacre the HRT used armored vehicles to destroy the
exits from the building and to allow the wind to blow through it and
then injected CS gas, known to be inflammable and toxic to children and
elderly persons, into the wooden structure. HRT fired CS rounds, which
are incendiary devices into, the building. A tactic to commit mass murder used by the National Socialists in Poland and Russia
was to confine civilians, especially women and children, in wooden
buildings and set the structures on fire.
To this day the perpetrators have died in peace or remain at large.
I've reposted on THE NEW RESISTER an article about the Waco Massacre that was originally published on the Libernet Mailing List in 1993. I'm republishing it here for the benefit of those
readers who aren't read in as to why I morally condemn the Democratic
Party and those who willingly support them.
My Editorial Introduction.
Part One.
Part Two.
Part Three.
Part Four.
Part Five.
References.
Koresh, if he was alive, would clearly be a mortal enemy of an Objectivist. But someone has to speak for him.
Here's two thousand words why I'll never vote for The Democratic Party.
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