David Koresh and Waco

I’ve been watching the Waco limited series on Showtime.  I am on the second episode.  Keep in mind that I was around when this happened.  It was all over the news.  Today, it is called the Waco Siege.  During the 90s, it was called “That’s that thing in Waco” or the Branch Davidian incident.  It was a huge deal and a rallying call for the far-right folks.  

Over 80 people died in the compound, which was engulfed in fire.  Over 4o people survived the fire.  This led to the Oklahoma City bombing.  

The series, so far, reveals the overzealous nature of the FBI and ATF.  However, the cult was also problematic with its views of sex and marriage.  David Koresh was the only one that could have sex with the women, all the women.  Koresh was a conman on a religious level.  

I guess this show was on TV on the Paramount Network years ago, but Showtime is pushing it on their On Demand service.  It has been in the news recently because of the Netflix special, which I will be checking out.