Waco
Waco
Between the days of February 28, 1993 and April 19th, 1993, approximately 80 men, women, and children living peacefully in their home near Waco, Texas, were killed by the combined efforts of the US Defense Department and other government paramilitary units: the US Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They were killed because the government claimed they were a dangerous cult. At first the ATF claimed to be only
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too can experience freedom." A polish immigrant by the name of Karl Prinsky said that in a letter home speaking of great America in 1910. If only he would have lived to see eighty-three years later eighty people killed because of their beliefs. What would he have written back to Poland then? These people, as citizens of the US, chose not be intimidated into silence or acquiescence and they died for it. Let freedom ring, right?