The Flock, the Feds, and the Fire
Three decades later, the story of the Branch Davidian tragedy
Waco.
Ask Team Blue about it, and you’ll be told that a cabal of white-supremacist Christian nationalists immolated themselves after murdering heroic federal agents attempting to arrest child abusers plotting acts of terrorism.
Team Red spins a different tale. It believes that fundamentally decent religious separatists, simply trying to live out their Biblical faith, were butchered by Janet Reno’s bloodthirsty goons.
Neither version is accurate.
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