obacco, and Firearms went in hoping for a nice easy clip ofthemselves being heroes, yet turned the whole unnecessary ordeal into a killing field. Theythen tried to cover it up, and were extremely unsuccessful once again. In the end, a largegroup of people, including many children, had died for no good reason at all, save all thegreat publicity the ATF received. The reason that this incident caused no problems for theATF was because the media was denied coverage of the standoff. The public heard onlywhat the federal government wanted them to hear, and of course they weren’t going to letthe people of America know how badly they had screwed up. So, they portrayed DavidKoresh as a mad man and leader of a strange, suicidal cult, and we bought it. And whynot? People love to hear about crazy whackos because it makes them feel a little moresane, and of course, a little more normal. When certain agencies of the government decided to investigate theincident at Waco, they uncovered the truth. So it turns out, none of these branch dividianswere really crazy, or even a cult, and there were no illegal activities taking place at theircompound, save a few illegal firearms. (Give me a break, they were in Texas!!) Theyfound no reason that could justify why these people had died so unjustly, because therewasn’t one. So a hearing began, and they tried to find out how this had happened, and justwho was responsible for this mess. But guess what? Everytime they had someone pinned,they pointed a finger at someone else. They could not find exactly who was responsible. Inthe end, the government boldly lies to people who knew better. They get away with itbecause they know that no one will fight for the people at Waco, and if they did, where inthe hell would they start? So in this, we view panopticism in its full glory. We know that people were“governed”, they carried their charred bodies out of the building after it had burned to thegroun...
