It is not subject to debate that federal police fired on the building--such was the finding of Carlos Ghigliotti, whose decaying body was found in his home lab. He followed a series of investigators who had met with accident, illness and death, preventing their assistance to the Davidian case.
A Delta operative rode a tank to place a shaped charge on the roof of the Concrete Room, which blew a concave hole down onto the twenty to thirty women and children therein who were subsequently reduced to shrivelled human briquets.
The "warrant" and the waiver of posse comitatus were obtained under obscenely false pretense, the same big lies on which the demonization of the Davidians was based: In fact, there were NO drugs or drug manufacturing, the charge of child molestation might have applied years prior before David Koresh's leadership but not contemporaneously, the firearms charges were preponderantly false--and David Koresh had in fact invited the BATF to visit and inspect--which they of course declined.
The front doors, as well as the entire complex, were destroyed as evidence. Thirty bodies of Davidians liquified when the forensic cooler was "accidentally unplugged".
The "re-enactment" was objected to as unrepresentative of actual conditions, and the British infrared firm was deemed complicit with federal agencies.
What was presented as a battle against evil was indeed that, but the evil was the force on the outside which murdered those within.
The killing of Sam and Vickie Weaver at Ruby Ridge was just practice. No knock home invasions are but training exercises.
We are but one national election gone bad from more Mt. Carmels. Our generation's Concord Bridge is just ahead with Yorktown not yet in sight. This War on Terrorism can kill our republic as surely as the War on Drugs damaged our Bill of Rights.
Never again.