Considering that these same charges were made by Roman officials against the original Christians, and by the Nineteenth-century United States government against the Mormons, it's no wonder that some Christian groups feel that the siege on Waco was an attack on the Davidians' religious practices as much as it was on their armory. Perhaps most ironic of all, on the same day that the American federal government was gassing, and ultimately creating a holocaust for, the Branch Davidians, President Clinton was commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi SS siege on the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. Violence is the bastard child of frustration. It was the German people's frustration at the sanctions imposed on them for losing the first world war that led to their embrace of the National Socialist movement and, consequently, a second world war. From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution, aristocratic indifference to the lives of ordinary people has led to revolutions which measure bloodshed by the tankful.
American history is no different.
And the bombing of the Murrah federal building on the anniversaries of Concord Bridge and Waco seems to be an escalation of a war between those in this country who wish power centralized under the control of the federal government, and those who wish power dispersed as widely as possible in the hands of the people and the states. This blindness is caused by a mental tar accumulated on their brains during their college years when the cultism rampant on campuses was invariably socialist. And, like all wars, the worst hurt will be the children. Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns. Schulman has been published in the Los Angeles Times and other national newspapers, as well as National Review, Reason, Liberty, and other magazines.