Thirteen years ago the federal government of the United States ended its altercation with a group of peaceful religious separatists - a conflict the government had initiated - by driving a tank through the Branch Davidians? home and church, pumping the interior with poisonous gas, and keeping the fire engines at a distance while the building and the people inside burned.
Waco is still important, because it illustrates the violent nature of the state, the fact that political power flows from the barrel of a gun, and the scary truth that the U.S. government is ultimately no different from all others in this respect.
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