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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 19 September, 1997 DVD Release : 09 December, 2003 |
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Waco - The Rules of Engagement description What happened at the Branch Davidian compound in Mt. Carmel, Texas, in 1993? Why did 4 federal agents and 86 civilians lose their lives? The powerful documentary Waco: The Rules of Engagement asks these and many other difficult questions, and the answers are deeply disturbing, even for the most cynical. Using interviews, news footage, testimony before Congress, and infrared photographic analysis, the film relentlessly chips away at the government's story that David Koresh and his followers were a dangerous cult involved in strange sex and drug practices who were preparing to slaughter their neighbors and that they immolated themselves à la Jonestown, rather than give themselves up peacefully. Nearly every element of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' and the FBI's cover-up is exposed as fraudulent and the viewer is left wondering when, if ever, justice will finally be served. Warning: There are a few minutes of extremely graphic footage of the burnt bodies of the Davidians; though this is sickening, it seems less so than the tragic mistakes made by law enforcement officials. --Rob Lightner |
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| Please allow me to share my frank reaction and some random thoughts after viewing this film.
The Waco/Branch Davidian matter has already became old news. I went into a viewing of this with entertainment in mind, expecting a revelation on the order of "there are Martian corpses at Area 51", or "9-11 was planned by George W Bush". What I came away with is the disgusting feeling that the federal government has committed a big crime, covered it up, and corporate media are a willing accomplice. BTW - the "Davidian" aspect of this group's name takes root in the King David of the Old Testament, NOT in personality David Koresh. I have heretofore always believed, as I had been taught via TV, that the Branch Davidians were an anti-government, religious cultic sect, and that David Koresh was insane and held himself out as their "messiah" and/or the reincarnation of the Biblical Jesus. What I found in this film was that the Branch Davidians were a group of Christian Bible-scholars - of mixed race, gender, age, marital staus - that possessed an above average dedication to wringing truth from the scriptures, and courage to NOT be lead by a mainstream religion ring through their nose. What I saw in the film strongly indicates that this was NOT a Jim Jones Guyana situation (which did indeed have all the attributes of being a genuine wacky cult). I disagree with some of Koresh's interpretations, but that is irrelavant. If I may speak plainly: When the Branch Davidians resisted government interference in the practice of their non-mainstream but definitely Biblical Christian religion . . . then U.S. government law enforcement agencies, headed by Clinton's Attorney General Janet Reno, so as not to lose face, recklessly murdered eighty-plus innocent men, women and children (I can't decide if it was accidental or not). And then covered it up with the finesse of a bulldozer. This film production could have been more polished of course, but it was certainly better than the minmum necessary to get the story across. I'm glad somebody did it. The innocents who were slaughtered deserved to be de-villanized. By the end of the video, I was close to tears. THAT is what I saw in the film. Watch it yourself and see what you think. |
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