A community of 130 American citizens, men, women, and children called the private church property they lived on, home. They had committed no crimes and were peaceful, well liked inhabitants of the area.

Yet in another act of imperial hubris and double standards, the Federal Government besieged these people for 51 days before burning their church home to the ground, and killing over 50 innocent people trapped inside.

What crime had been committed that warranted the force of the military and police which surrounded them, and ultimately destroyed their private property, their church, and so many lives?

It was the failure of one member, David Koresh, to pay $200 in taxes, a surcharge the government was owed on the purchase of firearms.

Did the punishment in any way fit the crime? Or was it once again a case of the punishment being exponentially worse than the imagined crime, a crime that had no victims at all?

The government and the media colluded to demonize and vilify the members of this quiet community in the attempt to justify their own violence and murder. But whether or not we happen to like or agree with how other people peacefully live their lives is not a reason to deprive anyone of life or property, or rights.

This was another brutal government crime that played out on television all over the world, and they got away with it. The congressional hearings were a sham and one begins to realize that a congressional hearing is a way for guilty government criminals to side step the legal system and ensure their "innocence", and the freedom to continue committing their crimes unobstructed. If these were real investigations they would be carried out by the same legal system you and I must use. Congressional hearings are not something for the general citizenry. It's something to notice and perhaps begin asking why the government plays by different rules, any rule it likes.