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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
They never found illegal guns, the warrant was served at the end of a gun barrel. They were raided. That's not how you serve a warrant.
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The warrant was served like any other warrant; Police showed up and announced "We have a warrant". In fact, they had multiple warrants, some search warrants and some arrest warrants. They were greeted with gunfire. At that point, the reason the police were there is irrelevant - Warrants or not, we now have people shooting at police officers.
Brett, apply common sense here: If police show up on your doorstep with a warrant and you shoot at them, the police are going to evict you by force if required. The Police aren't going to walk away and say "Opps, sorry".
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
FBI spokesmen denied (even under oath) the use of any sort of pyrotechnic devices during the assault; however, pyrotechnic Flite-Rite CS gas grenades had been found in the rubble immediately following the fire.
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And your point is what?
My guess is that these nut jobs knew the end was coming, and set fire to the place at three different locations.
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
And Richard, I don't care what their religion was, they have a right to what ever religion they want, kind of a guarantee of the constitution last I heard. That warrant was mainly for what they thought was a meth lab they said he had, even though Koresh had dismantled the lab and gave it to the Sheriff when he took charge long before the warrant was issued. That warrant was given out because of disgruntled ex members from 6 years prior!
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They do have the right to practice any religion they want. This has nothing to do with religion; They had multiple warrants for multiple reasons and multiple arrest warrants. The police had valid reasons to be there; No one had a valid reason to shoot at law enforcement.
76 people died, not because of the police, but because they decided to get into a gun battle with police.
There is no debate on this. Police served a warrant and were shot at.