Day Four of the Waco Standoff

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3:
In a conciliatory gesture, the FBI intervenes to have murder charges dropped against two elderly women, Davidians who had left the compound on March 2. Speaking with negotiators, KORESH accounts for his failure to surrender, as agreed, by saying he's "dealing now with his Father" and not with "your bureaucratic system of government." And he delivers various rambling sermons, focusing on such Biblical matters as "unlocking" the Seven Seals and interpreting God's intentions about the end of the world. In a late-evening conversation, he bristles at the movement of armored vehicles around the compound and says the FBI would have to "look at some of the pictures of the little ones that ended up perishing." [Scruggs 38-41]

(Myth: The FBI never intended anybody to come out of that compound alive.)

[The Truth: Oh really? Maybe that’s why they had day after day of painstaking negotiations with Burnin’ Vernon--listening to his bullshit for weeks--all with the goal of getting the Davidians out alive and unharmed. Here’s a newsflash: Burnin’ Vernon was lying to the FBI from Day One. What he REALLY wanted was to drag them into his weird world where he was Jesus and he could fuck their wives as much as he wanted. In other words, Vernon’s theology boiled down to, ‘All for me, none for you.’

You know what made Vernon really mad? The fact that he couldn’t preach on one of the religious networks after he lied to the FBI and said he’d come out once one of his tapes was broadcast, which it was. TWICE. They didn’t take him seriously after that and that infuriated him. In the early days he bitched and whined about it constantly. Later on in the siege, when the FBI was going to tow away his fucking Camaro, Vernon got VERY upset.

By the way, this marks the FOURTH time Vernon lied to the FBI.]