[PeterFinn]

Why did they return to the compound?

It's a RANCH. It is not a "compound". A 'compound' by definition would be an enclosed area and the inference is that it is also a fortification. The ranch in question is surrounded by the kind of ranch fencing typical of the area and there are no fortifications whatsoever at the ranch.

The term 'compound' is being used by the Texas authorities and the media to propagandize and incite opinion against these people.

[Mamzelle]

This raid was handled by grownups. It's not the Branch Davidians.

And it is enclosed, by several rings of obstacles.

Eww.

I can't really believe what I'm reading, the impulse to protect the prerogatives of degenerate men. This whole thing plays into a sick fantasy of domination. You don't see the parallels with Sharia?

[Texas_shutterbug]

Compound has connotations of being closed off and separate to the rest of society.

If the shoe fits.

It's a compound.

[HungarianGypsy]

The term 'compound' is being used by the Texas authorities and the media to propagandize and incite opinion against these people. The media so often likes to use the term "compound" wen referring to any group of houses used by a religious group. I used to live next to a family who held church services in there home. The only thing about them was their dress was Western. When you talked to them, they were normal people with old-fashioned ideology.

A woman who had gone to their church once as a visitor did a horrible crime and the media jumped on the idea that maybe it was because of this church. They walked around the neighborhood and could not find anyone to say anything bad about these people. They tried talking to me, looked at my big house with an addition in the back and asked, "Is this a compound?" I just shook my head. "No. It's my house."