My feeling is that Koresh was a messed-up guy and he maybe should have gone to prison for statutory rape. They tried to make him out to be a child molester / abuser, but I think he did have an underaged wife (among several wives) which I think is terrible but which was far from unusual in proletarian circles in Texas in the 80's at least, I think by the 90's it was more frowned upon. The point is that the government could have quietly arrested him and had ample opportunities to do so, but instead they chose to go in with guns blazing and got their asses handed to them. Then they eventually killed the entire group with fire to cover up the evidence of their fuckup, and the American people were all like, oh yeah, Koresh, good thing that fucker got what was coming to him. Koresh isn't the point, it's the good Christians that followed him and died that are the point. And I do believe most good Christians have at one time or another followed a bad shepard.