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From: roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
Subject: Re: BATF/FBI Murders Almost Everyone in Waco Today! 4/19
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 23:49:22 GMT
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In article <lt8keoINN31v@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix) writes:
>In article <C5sIAJ.Ks7@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) writes:
>>
>>Why didn't they release the children weeks ago?
>
>It would have been inconsistent behavior for them to have done so.
>
>Some people believe that there is more to life than the physical requirements.
>
>These folks believed that the generally-held standards of the surrounding
>community (heck, most of the world) were morally wrong, and letting the
>children be abandoned to this (godless/unbelieving) culture would be condeming
>them to eternal loss and separation from God.
>
>By their standards, letting the children go would be abandoning them to a fate
>literally worse than death.
>
>The FBI (and BATF and media) people working on the issue, I suspect,
>just couldn't get their heads into a similar-enough (to say nothing of
>identical) mode of thinking to realize what they were doing.
>
>Physically, there was no reason why the BD's shouldn't have given up and come
>out a long time ago.
>
>From the point of view of the BD's, they were up against the wall and had nowhere
>to go at all.
>
>They apparently really did love their kids too much to abandon them to a godless
>bunch of outsiders...although the end result was horribly twisted.
>
>I didn't say the BD's were right, I just said that that's the way they perceived
>it.
>
>Koresh was a nutcase, and a bunch of other people paid for that.
>
>And the FBI and BATF miscalculated and misunderstood what was going on from the
>word go.

Very likely possible.  Reminds me of the movie "The Rapture".

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