Well, to begin I would like to tell that I live in Brazil, and in the time of those events I watched the building in fire, in TV, and thought "Hell, those crazy policemen are lying to your nayve people, telling to everyone that those group killed themselves!". It was very obvious, but why I though so? Well, who lives in another countries have a very different idea about "America" than american people can think.Anyway, fire is a BAD BAD BAD idea to suicide.
During all these years I always wanted to know about those events in Waco, but unhapilly I was not able to remember the name of city, or cult, or leader.I had only that building in fire in my mind. Recently, looking for that tragedy with Jim Jones ( http://www.amazon.com/Jonestown-Life-Death-Peoples-Temple/dp/B000MTFFUO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233691722&sr=1-1 )the amazon system suggested me the DVD "Waco: Rules of engagement" and when I see the cover I remembered what I watched in TV in 1993. After watch the DVD I bought the book, because it was unbelievable, I wanted to know more.
Well, this is a wonderfull book, one of that rare historicall situations in which you can know what a involved person ( a live person) can tell. He was very honest in your relate, never mixing opinion nd facts. He tell about he knows, and when he don't know ( certain problematic points) he addmits it, don't creates half truths to fix crack in th problematic matters. But what is the most important: you can feel his sincerity. It seems that a lot of people have problems to identify the truth when they read it or listen it, so, always there will be people roaring: "They deserve this, they are crazy!", people that fear think by themselves, different of their family, their neighbors, of the press, of the "official truth". I don't sorry for them, because they are responsible to this world be as it is. But unhapilly, they are the majority in any country, and they creates great problems to those, like Thibodeau, wants to show the truth to whom want to know it.
I admire much the courage of this man, and when we read his book we perceive that it was not easy to live this, to think about, to try understand, to return to his family and continue trying to clear the things. It is much more easy to try forget all and to live his live, wanting to be forgot too. But when the people do so, the official truth can prevail, as happened in Brazil with a old cult, in the end of Century XIX. The members of the cult bought wood to build a church and pay it before received. When they try to receive that wood the owner did'nt delivered it. The members took them by force, the police was warned and a war begun. The press announced that those men were "revolutionary", against the new government, the recent republican.
But they never were revolutionary, they were only a religious cult waiting the end of the days. When the journalist send his journals, they were censored, the people never read them, because the press and the governement wanted the people think that those people were revolutionary, so they can be smashed and count as a sound victory to the "new order". That journalist registered all, returned to home and publish all truth about that official lie, but he must to pay the publishing, because nobody wanted to help to speak against the governement ( Isn't a little familiar???). Well, that book is maybe the greatest book of brazilian literature, maybe one of the greatest of the world literature. BUT EVEN SO, THE STUDENTS STILL LEARN ONLY THE OFFICIAL LIE IN THE SCHOOL!!!!! ONLY IN THE UNIVERSITY THEY KNOW ABOUT THIS LIE:
http://www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Backlands-Phoenix-Books-Euclides/dp/0226124444/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233688683&sr=8-1
Thibodeau took the chance to tell the truth to the world while he still has hope to watch your country become better, and if this one day will happen he can be proud because he helped it, exposing its lies. If he only decided forget about all, maybe his grandsons ( os even sons) can face the same kind of fate. We can not change the world, but we can do our part when we are called to do it, and David Thibodeau did his part in a amazing way.
Read it, think about, face the facts, and don't die without to watch "Waco: Rules of engagement":
http://www.amazon.com/Waco-Rules-Engagement-Dan-Gifford/dp/B0000DIJOO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233691510&sr=8-1
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