GOVERNMENTsteria: Best Waco Anniversary Memes

The FEDs had to burn the children in order to save them, Waco-ing the children, the ATF even raised a victory flag over the charred children and more Waco anniversary memes - we were warned!

Yesterday was the anniversary of when the FEDs (starting with the ATF) decided to eliminate a group of eccentric religious people in Waco TX who had deeply embarrassed them:

Just listened to the WACO episode again and saw this on History memes and thought you all would want to see it : r/LPOTL

Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997) - IMDb

To recap: David Koresh and his Branch Davidians were clearly some eccentric religionist wackos BUT they were otherwise NOT bothering anyone. However, they were likely violating Federal gun laws by having some unregistered firearms. The Feds could have easily waited and detained Koresh and his key followers when they went into town to question them about any alleged unregistered guns.

Instead, the Feds (specifically starting with the ATF), despite being told by informants that the Branch Davidians knew they were coming, went in with their guns blazing and were met with return fire - after all, the Branch Davidians were an apocalyptic religious sect and going in with guns blazing is how the Feds deal with such people…

Of course, the Feds and their friends in the media then tried to accuse David Koresh and the Branch Davidians of what they themselves are probably doing: sexually abusing children - even though there were no child protective services along for the initial raid and no evidence such activities had ever occurred…

After a mong embarrassing siege and in order to “save the children,” the FBI pumped CS gas into the compound with the aid of an M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle that was equipped with a battering ram…

Naturally, nobody survived to dispute the FED’s version of events and no FED was ever punished for the fiasco…

And now for some Waco anniversary memes…