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To: Land Shark who wrote (69432)11/5/2005 2:54:11 AM
From: Dan B.Respond to of 81568
 
"much in the same manner as Jimmy Jones in Jonesville and other meglomaniacal "religous" cult leaders. Koresh also was a child-abuser - a pedophile."

I feel you will not show worthy evidence that he was any sort of pedophile as we know the term. I also don't feel you'll find worthy evidence that he set about to kill his people as Jones did. No, the deaths in the Koresh case were not by his hands, IMHO. Mind you, I think religion in general is nutty, and he was as believing as the religious ever are, so it seems (makes him worse, to me...though perhaps not worse than all too many priests, the pope, etc.).

But legally, the operation against him was illegal from the get go, and then everyone died. It was a terrible mis-use of power, the Davidian case.

Dan B.