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Dallasguy 3 points ago +5 / -2

Yes. They were. I grew up in Waco. I met him in 1987. People in the area knew they were cultists then.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 4 points ago +4 / -0

Look, I won’t dismiss you outright. You probably have more knowledge—right or wrong—than I do on this. But do consider: if you met someone as deeply redpilled as this comment outlines, or even just a group of the more aggressively self-sufficient people from this very board... and you weren’t redpilled yourself, if you lived in the next town over and had one or two brief encounters and the gossip to go on... don’t you think it’s possible you’d hear that group described as a cult, or the local weirdos, even though it wasn’t actually true?

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Dallasguy 2 points ago +2 / -0

I already replied to that comment. That person is totally and utterly full of shit, to an alarming degree that borders on lunacy.

I lived there. I was invited to the compound by Koresh when I was in high school. My friends were involved with them in varying degrees. I graduated years before the atf attack. I lived there every day. My best friend was director of the news in that town. I used to watch the compound on the monitor they had set up in the cotrol room. I know exactly what people in the area knew about that cult at the time, before, during, and after.

I don't know why people feel the need to make the cultists into good people in order to criticize the government agencies who murdered them. Both the perpetrators and the victims can be shitty people who committed crimes. And they were.

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Dallasguy 0 points ago +1 / -1

There certainly seem to be a lot of people who think they understand my life because they watched a very small part of it on tv for a few weeks.

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AbsoluteChad 2 points ago +2 / -0

The license plate on his 67 or 69 Camaro was “GODSCAR.” Sounds like he had some cult beliefs for sure.

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Dallasguy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Vernon Howell was a fuckin snake oil salesman. He was so good at telling people what they wanted to hear and manipulating them into doing what he wanted. Throw in the bible, and he was everything you ever hear or read about a cult leader. I would absolutely have gone out there if one of the older kids hadn't warned me against it.