I just watched the Waco on Netflix. It was surprisingly even handed and didn't paint the ATF or FBI in a very good light.
I think the problem, and we still see this today, is that the government just decides to curb stomp certain people for breaking the law. Then when things go south, they blame all of their poor decisions on the criminal suspect. "I wouldn't have had to kill all these people if you hadn't broke the law and brought me out here in the first place."
The original ATF raid was meant to be a display of force when they could have just as easily scooped Koresh up the next time he came into town to buy groceries- they had an informant literally in his house who snuck off right before the raid started.
Then, it seemed like the FBI's hostage rescue team was constantly undermining the negotiation team. They interviewed the lead negotiator, and he was basically pushed off the case because he kept butting heads with the tactical guys, and after he left not a single person walked out of the compound before they burnt it down.
A lot of us are too young to have been politically aware before Bathhouse Barry's debut to be fair. It wasn't so easy to get access to information before the internet became part of life. Waco is historical to a lot of us. I imagine it was quite the experience living through the beginning. This shit is all a lot of us have ever known.
This is an oft forgotten point. Pre-internet, it was hard to have a real good idea of any event unless you were above a certain age and physically around to witness.
Which, wasn't a problem for things that were neutral or written about extensively by numerous opposing parties. But if it was contentious, or a narrative was built around it, then the information was basically being passed around orally by guy's you were not likely to trust.
Art Bell (F) was probably one of the most significant mainstream sources of a counter-narrative to Waco. Yeah he was kinda a boomer lolbert, but the Feds fucking up Waco was a bit of a hobby horse for him. And he had a massive audience.
Of course you had to be listening to him at 2am to hear it, in between the guys talking about alien and Elvis sightings. So perhaps I see your point there...
Art (and him having Alex Jones on at the time) is exactly where I got my anti-big government awakening. It just took me a while to realize that both sides want big government.
TBH in the 90s, the only people really talking about Waco and Ruby Ridge were people like Art Bell, Alex Jones, Texe Marrs, Jim Tucker, and Militia groups.
They do touch on this. They interview one of the reporters who was tipped off to the raid and was the first on the scene. They show a bunch of footage of the ATF dead and injured being hauled away and you can hear the ATF agents cussing out the cameraman and telling him to "turn off that fucking camera."
In the interview the reporter comments that they didn't seem to have a problem with the cameras when they called them there because they thought it was going to be a slam dunk before they got bitch slapped by the Branch davidians.
Waco was way, way worse than what the Netflix documentary shows. The U.S. government intentionally murdered all of those people, and the media helped the government cover it up, by claiming the Davidians were cultists harming children.
Good thing the feds saved the children by setting them on fire.
I'd like to add some sources for you, but if I edit my first reply you won't get a notification for it. So, I'm adding a new reply.
Read this 4chan summary first, as it gives a quick rundown of the bullshit the Feds did:
https://i.4cdn.org/tv/1679498664162891.png
Here are 3 videos on the Waco siege:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZwFxWb0y7w
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mJzUWoaY4R3c/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8Hf3uOUWZTAv/
If you think the government would never do all that, read up on the bullshit surrounding Ruby Ridge. Or, read up on what the federal government did at the Oregon wildlife refuge standoff (and the bullshit starting decades prior):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2016/01/03/full-story-on-whats-going-on-in-oregon-militia-take-over-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-in-protest-to-hammond-family-persecution/
Or, check out political conspiracies, like the Gulf of Tonkin (used to get us involved in Viet Nam), or the "babies in incubators" lie (used to get us into the first Iraq war), or the chemical weapon attacks in Syria lie (faked by media or used by the "rebels", not Assad), or what happened with Libya and Gaddafi, or how Obama and NATO supported the Muslim Brotherhood (a terrorist organization) in Egypt to overthrow the government, or how the U.S. government knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor (but let them, to give us casus belli to enter the war the American public didn't want), or how the CIA was/is smuggling drugs into the U.S., or how our own troops were used to guard poppy fields in Afghanistan, or how we invaded Afghanistan right before the Taliban were going to eliminate all poppy production, or how the U.S. opioid epidemic occurred almost right after the invasion of Afghanistan, or how ISIS was created by the U.S. and Israel (the CIA and Mossad trained, funded, armed, and ran the "rebels" all across the Middle East during the "Arab Spring"), or how the U.S. government experimented on people without their knowledge (multiple times), or operation Mockingbird (the government and globalists are in control of mainstream media to propagandize the public), or...etc.
To properly understand the world and what happens, you need a proper understanding of conspiracies, information you won't find through mainstream media or government/globalist controlled institutions.