@Smokin Joe
Some of the people inside weren't killed by the fire or the shooting. They were killed by the CS gas. Some were asphyxiated because the CS was pumped into the building in high enough concentrations to replace all the oxygen. Some were killed by compounds released by the burning CS gas. One little girl, about 10 if I recall correctly, was found bent in half backwards. When CS gas burns it releases a chemical (Phosgene I think but I cant find it) that is considered a chemical weapon and is banned for war use by treaty. Among other things it causes severe muscle contractions. The muscles in the little girls back contracted so severely they bent her in half. The chemical was also found in her lungs which indicate she was alive when this happened.
There is no doubt in my mind that it was mass murder. CS was banned for use in warfare and is actually a powder, not a gas, which is why it required a volatile carrier liquid to pump it in and spray it in the building. The boom also crushed doorways and destroyed stairwells, a feature of that part of the operation more designed to keep people trapped rather than enhance escape.
What still nags at me is "Why?" Was the group selected at random, or was there a reason buried somewhere, some obscure association that led to the whole operation. I am not buying the official excuses. They'd been checked out by the CPS on allegations of abuse who found nothing. Nothing is an extremely clean bill of health when you deal with people who can fabricate a case on even less, so the whole abuse thing doesn't fly.
As we have been assured, the sexual behaviours of consenting adults are sacrosanct, so what is there to assault a building full of men, women, and children, there, even if there was some hanky-panky going on?
They had an FFL. As such, their stock was open to examination and their records to review at any time, per federal law. That wasn't why the BATF was there. They'd even been invited, no mass raid needed.
Grenade casings? Torn box and the UPS guy found them? Really? Could have been cleared up with a phone call. Take a number...novelties are (or used to be) common at gun shows and in catalogues as a joke. (I know what happened to Kenyon Ballew, so I don't have anything around that even resembles something that is not legal just because you never know when some fool will misinterpret it. But then, what I have is not on display, anyway.
"Meth Lab"? Not one person on any raid team had the requisite courses in shutting down a meth lab or dealing with chemicals involved from either the DEA of OSHA. Right. Not much of a concern, because those labs then were notorious for blowing up and destroying the evidence if they were cooking when the raid went down.
What chemicals they had went to an auto repair place (body and fender) off the main 'campus', anyway. Why not raid it?
There was another reason, aside from the official reasons, but the question remains: what?
Alamo-Girl had some tremendous files on the siege and raids. I do not know what became of her, but she did a lot of digging. Information available at the time was not complimentary to the administration at the time of the initial raid, the conflagration, nor administrations which preceded the one in which the events took place at Waco. That would step on a lot of perceptions of the past that I won't mess with here. The information is still out there.
