Replying to a message of Rene Laederach to Steve Asher:

 RL> Steve Asher wrote to Rene Laederach:

 RL>>> This is much more likely. Ever noticed how the US government
 RL>>> proceeds against 'militia' groups?
 SA>> 
 SA>> Not much, apart from Waco & Tim McVeigh, who went too far.

 RL> Waco went the way it went because some dolt fired pyrotechnical CS gas 
 RL> grenades  into the building,

Yep.  About 270 of them.  One is enough to start a fire in a pile of dry
lumber - and lumber that's been baking in the Texas sun for several years
is very, very dry.

 RL> and there are persistent rumors they
 RL> used tracers against the building - pure hazard?

It's on film.  Also that they shot at people attempting to escape the fire.

 RL> Or did somebody high
 RL> want to burn proofs against them?

Bingo!  

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