The FBI assault on Waco in March of '93 was a result of frustration. David Koresh and his "Davidians" had committed the unpardonable sin of minding their own business. No crime had been committed but, all the same, they weren't being too cooperative in surrendering. Impatience began to gnaw at the Agents. A few weeks of waiting for the Davidians to finally give up simply failed. Agents Jamar and Sage, ostensible FBI leaders, gave in to the impatience and allowed invasion with assault force and weapons. Some died on both sides ... assaulters and defenders.

But that failed, too, for the FBI ran out of ammo and the Davidians still hadn't given up. Those damned Jesus lovers were not being reasonable. The agents then assaulted with loudspeakers blaring dissonant noise and music. But that failed, too, because David Koresh had bigger speakers and louder music. This cacophony serenade went on for hours.

Janet Reno had been brought in as the new Attorney General a week or so earlier. She was eager not to misstep on her first big assignment. She cared about children. Rather than call off the siege, as a prudent woman in charge might have done, she allowed its operatives to continue in the field. Festering.

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Petulant and impatient, with no victory to report and only negative progress, agents now urged her to let them use tanks and tear gas on the people to "force them out." At first, Reno resisted. She cared about children. There would be no gas, no tanks. The gas could ignite, after all. Agents argued how "safe" the gas was, but even Reno knew the weakness of that argument.

Someone in the FBI -- they're still not telling -- helped Reno change her mind. False claims were made that Koresh was abusing the children. That did it for Madame Attorney General. She cared about children. The green light was given, allowing the agents to "destroy the village in order to save it." About eighty people died in the conflagration that day ... man, woman, and child.

As if it weren't lesson enough, the FBI then later launched another invasive debacle with the siege of Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Under leadership of the new FBI director Louis Freeh, overkill was again effected by countless agents in assault upon the lonely hilltop cabin of Randall Weaver and his family.

Trained to be self-sufficient and gun-savvy, the Weavers were prepared for attacks by predators in the bush. On one fatal day subsequent to Waco, those predators were the FBI, hiding by the hundreds in ambush. Without announcement or warning or provocation, one of them shot the Weaver boy's dog.

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In tears and anger, the boy fired at the bushes where he thought the shot came from. An agent fell. Another fired as the boy walked back to tell his mother in the house. Like his dog before him, he died, shot in the back in childish retaliation.
A little later, agent Lon Horiuchi killed his mother, firing at her head through the front door window. She fell dead, the baby bouncing with her body to the ground. At the risk of trivializinq, it would appear to be open season on American citizens.