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Cyber1776 -11 points ago +2 / -13

They were trying to conduct a search for illegal weapons in the compound, not arresting Koresh, iirc.

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borscht-nazi 30 points ago +30 / -0

>illegal weapons
there isn't such a thing

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Krom98 [S] 15 points ago +15 / -0

based

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TEXinLA 1 point ago +5 / -4

There was also an active child abuse investigation; one of Koresh's "wives" had a child at 14 or 15.

But the warrant the FBI/ATF was attempting to serve was for the illegal weapons.

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Cyber1776 8 points ago +11 / -3

Yeah Koresh was a creep to be sure. He told everyone that they couldnt have sex, even if they were married, but he was chosen by God to have sex with anyone he wanted so he just cucked all his male followers.

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n3IVI0 2 points ago +2 / -0

He was a creep. But he didn't deserve to be shot and all his followers (nearly) burned alive. If they wanted to take him so badly, why didn't they arrest him at any of the times he was in town? Then a confrontation would have been unnecessary and nobody had to die. But they had to flex the muscle of federal agencies and interdict a "dangerous domestic terrorist" who already believed in the inevitable conflict of the government with his followers. What did they think would happen?

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Cyber1776 -2 points ago +1 / -3

They werent trying to arrest him, they had a search warrant for the compound.