From:    Dean T. Miller
To:      All                                    Dec-11-93 08:21PM
Subject: Re: Excommunicards and Mormon Gods

From: dtmiller@anunnaki.win.net (Dean T. Miller)
Message-ID: <20@anunnaki.win.net>
Reply-To: dtmiller@anunnaki.win.net (Dean T. Miller)
Newsgroups: utah.religion,alt.pagan,alt.atheism


In article <10DEC199310415047@vx9000.weber.edu>, Suzanne Cook
(smcook1@vx9000.weber.edu) writes:

>Actually, Koresh did have sex with children, which is technically rape.  Also,
>if he was hording weapons, that seems pretty clear that he intended to use
>them.

Suzanne,

I'm not sure where you get your information, but it seems incorrect
on all counts.

Many times Koresh have been accused by fundamentalist religious
people of abusing the children in the compound sexually and/or
physically.  Many times the state of Texas (and the state of
California when Koresh was located there) thoroughly investigated
these claims.  Every investigation proved false.  Absolutely no
evidence or indication of any abuse of any type was found.  The
children that were interviewed after the holocaust all said that
Koresh's group taught that any form of child abuse was a sin.

As for hoarding weapons, again false.  Prior to the burning, BATF
agents had, upon several occasions, searched the Koresh compound
and surrounding area for arms caches.  None were found.  The local
gun shops all said that Koresh was a stickler for filling out all
of the government forms to the letter.  One newsletter writer
calculated that there were fewer weapons in the compound than in a
similar sized, randomly selected group from the general Texas
population.

You could get the facts before blowing off steam and showing
the others reading these newsgroups (would I dare call them cults?)
the level of your knowledge.