Bill Walker
Well-Known Member
Been watching this tv mini series (its the 25 year anniversary of Waco) and I have to say it is excellent, all the actors are superb and the pace and accuracy is very good, great direction. it seems safe to say that the producers have worked very hard to portray a historically fair and accurate narrative.
The ATF and FBI it seems handled thing badly, the ATF first with their all guns blazing approach. sadly 76 people (including babies and small children) eventually died.
The happenings at Waco have to this day far reaching effect within the US far right.
As a 2015 New York Times story looking at Waco’s influence wrote;
For right-wing militias and so-called Patriot groups, Waco amounts to evidence of a tyrannical, illegitimate government unblinkingly prepared to kill its own people ... the spectre of Waco has not faded. Right-wing extremists regularly invoke it as a defining moment, proof of Washington’s perfidy. “Waco can happen at any given time,” Mike Vanderboegh, a prominent figure in the Patriot movement, told Retro Report. He added ominously: “But the outcome will be different this time. Of that I can assure you.”
The ATF and FBI it seems handled thing badly, the ATF first with their all guns blazing approach. sadly 76 people (including babies and small children) eventually died.
The happenings at Waco have to this day far reaching effect within the US far right.
As a 2015 New York Times story looking at Waco’s influence wrote;
For right-wing militias and so-called Patriot groups, Waco amounts to evidence of a tyrannical, illegitimate government unblinkingly prepared to kill its own people ... the spectre of Waco has not faded. Right-wing extremists regularly invoke it as a defining moment, proof of Washington’s perfidy. “Waco can happen at any given time,” Mike Vanderboegh, a prominent figure in the Patriot movement, told Retro Report. He added ominously: “But the outcome will be different this time. Of that I can assure you.”