Fifteen years ago this month, workers were cleaning up the charred remains of the men, women and children burned to death in the Branch Davidian "Compound" that was previously the home of David Koresh and his followers.

I'm sure the workers were also searching for weapons of mass destruction. 

This picture, from the seige on the compound, indicates the force necessary to combat this dangerous group of highly skilled homegrown terrorists.

Military and intelligence personnel were brought over from England and elsewhere in Europe, so they could learn what it takes to handle citizens who don't seem to follow the rules.

I don't know what their reaction was, but, I would think, they might have had a few questions, such as:

1. Playing a stupid Nancy Sinatra tune (These Boots Are Made For Walkin') over and over is your idea of psychological warfare?  Doesn't it show that your mentality is a bit childish and machoistic? 

2. Usually, in Europe, when we do military exercises, we don't use real people. Is this really necessary?  

3. Do you know what weapons the children are trained to handle? 

4. Don't you have a law here in the U.S. - what do you call it - Posse Comitatus - that is supposed to bar the use of the military against its own people?

5. If this guy David violated a law, could you not have just arrested him when he came into town, or when he invited you to his home to inspect the weapons you say are illegal?

6. What threat had these people made before you started attacking their home with guns drawn, when you had no real proof that they had violated any law?

7 . Do the American people know what's going on here?

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written by Chuck Williams, April 29, 2008

The County Sheriff had been out to Mount Carmel 3 times looking for signs of Child Abuse and Illegal weapons and found nothing. Yet the Feds who were supposed to have an informant that said he had found nothing conducted the raid anyway. In all of the films of the first few minutes of the raid, showing the Feds fireing hundreds of rounds into the Church you never see any bullets hitting the cars or dirt around them. Yet they say that they were receiving fire from nearly every window and opening in Mount Carmel. The proof is in the FBIs own videos of the raid.

We Will Not Forget 911
written by Jeff Farmer, April 29, 2008

Yeah, we will not forget 911... nor Waco... nor Ruby Ridge... nor the Freemen Ranch in Montana... nor Ed and Elaine Brown...or King George II and his attack on Boston!!!

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written by Lynda K. Dotson, April 30, 2008

Just remember people, these were the Clinton's in office when all this happend and Janet Reno who ordered this mass destruction of the American innocent people's!!! I was appalled with everyhting that was going on in that era along with Ruby Ridge and Oklahoma Federal Bldg., and of course the biggest one of them all 9/11. It could be you next or well enough myself. We have all become enemies of the State thru the War Powers act of 1933 that suspended the Consitution of these united States. Read it and weap... We've lost our liberties many years ago, some of us before we were even thought of....It's time to take it back and we hae to work fast at it before it's really to late....

Crimes aqainst Humanity
written by Ross Fokkens, April 30, 2008

Janet Reno should be prosecuted as a mass murderer for her part in instigating this travesty. This is what woke me up to the fact that our freedom here is only an illusion. Percieved enemies of the government can be killed at will. We are on a slow side to totalarianism and its mame is Fascism. The Republicans and the Democrats are both part of the movement. The so called liberals in both parties are not liberal. They are the Fascits.