Coresh survives Waco conflagration

Proctol

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WI Coresh and a few others had survived Waco. Would he have gone to jail? Would he have been a hero or a villain? Would McVeigh have still let off the OKC bomb? Would his devotees have tried to spring him?
 
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Weapon M

Koresh would have gone to jail, or commited suicide. Of course, it would have been much easier to arrest him on his morning jog or bicycle trip to the store before the whole thing began.

If Koresh escapes the fire, then he will also be looked upon as somebody who bailed out and abondoned his followers. That might make him more of a bad guy than, well whoever you think started the fires. Of course, if he escapes, he might explain that his people did not start the fires.

Additionally, he might be able to give more detail about how he tried to surrender, and about how the, ummm, nice law-enforcement people accidentally ignored this, or about how .308 rounds kept coming through the roof, from the "observer" helicopters.
 

MerryPrankster

Some of the surviving Branch Davidians were convicted of minor things, then sentenced to abnormally long prison terms (the judge there jacked the sentences up for political purposes).

Koresh, being the "evil mastermind," will probably end up getting the chair, or failing that, a very LONG prison term.

McVeigh will probably bomb OKC anyway--he was already viewing the Feds as tyrannical thanks to Ruby Ridge, and something like this, even if the leader does survive and is revealed to the whole world as a complete fruit loop, will still bother him.
 
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