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Article: Enforcing the law. (reaction to the Branch Davidian tragedy in Waco, Texas)
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- Commonweal
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- May 21, 1993
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Ever renowned for its delicacy in the face of human tragedy, and for its superb command of the wide array of theological convictions that stir the soul in American religious groups, the Wall Street Journal told us last month all that they think we need to know about the death of David Koresh and his followers in Waco, Texas. They were "nutty." That settles that. Commonweal's May 7 editorial ("Agents of Apocalypse") took a more subtle approach, raising disturbing questions that cannot so lightly be brushed aside. These questions will have to be sorted out carefully by disinterested fact-finders before responsibility for this tragedy can be assessed more clearly. In the ...