{"id":289,"date":"2020-05-24T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2020-05-24T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:14:13","slug":"waco-david-koresh-the-atf-and-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/24\/waco-david-koresh-the-atf-and-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Waco, David Koresh, the ATF and the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did the Branch Davidians deserve ATF&#8217;s attack on their home in Waco? <\/p>\n<p>The boys drink and review Hoffbrau&#8217;s Maibock, then discuss the Branch Davidians, the ATF assault, and David Koresh.<\/p>\n<p>How should we understand these sincere believers who are a little nutty and often quite wicked? Are they simply fakes, or is it more complicated than that?<\/p>\n<p>What did the folk in Waco do to deserve this no-knock, armed raid? Any if the Davidians were expecting and preparing for an armed conflict with the government, why in the heck would the ATF fulfill that prophecy for them?<\/p>\n<p>Did the government go too far? And who was at fault for the fire that destroyed the compound?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14546816\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the Branch Davidians deserve ATF&#8217;s attack on their home in Waco? The boys drink and review Hoffbrau&#8217;s Maibock, then discuss the Branch Davidians, the ATF assault, and David Koresh. How should we understand these sincere believers who are a little nutty and often quite wicked? Are they simply fakes, or is it more complicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/24\/waco-david-koresh-the-atf-and-the-fbi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waco, David Koresh, the ATF and the FBI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}