Need an argumentative essay on The Branch Davidians. Needs to be 7 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous pages... Waco itself is a place which traces its history back to 1860s when

Need an argumentative essay on The Branch Davidians. Needs to be 7 pages. Please no plagiarism.

Waco itself is a place which traces its history back to 1860s when it was founded and rebuilt over the next century despite violence and bloodshed. The raid on the Branch of Davidians was considered by religious scholars as an ignorant move towards a conscious group of people which considered their own leader as the ultimate means of power. The actions took by the FBI were of extreme psychological and strategic force. They dismissed the sentiments and beliefs of the Branch Davidians whom they thought were hostages to a sociopath leader, Koresh. The law enforcement community failed to detect religion as a significant variable due to the history of scheming reformations. The agents saw it more as a heretical or a cultic group because of its beliefs in various things, an act which varied from other belief systems including their own. It was due to this image of the “cult” associated with the Branch Davidians that the media and the masses perceived the leader of the group as the dominant psychological controller of unwitting and ego-deficient followers. Hence what the agencies were looking for was a perfect scenario to kill the cult. David Koresh’s profile was set up by agent Mark Young and Pete Sinerick based on previous reports: “For years he [Koresh] has been brainwashing his followers for this battle [between his church and his enemies],…Koresh validates his prophetic warnings that an attack is forthcoming and they are going to have to defend themselves. According to his teachings, if they die defending their faith, they will be saved.” (Ammerman 1995) The Branch Davidians held close to the Christian values with additional dogmas. Originally it was founded by Benjamin Lloyd Roden and Lois Irene Scott Roden who wanted to bring together those who believe in preserving and observing the essential practices such as the Sabbath and Feast Day. Certain rituals were and still are close to the Hebraic tradition especially those pertaining to the agricultural sector. It has been extremely unfortunate and negligible to have misunderstood the message of the branch as was once cherished by the followers as prestigious collection of doctrines which were later demonized by the 1993 siege. David Koresh, whose real identity was Vernon W. Howell, before taking over leadership of the Branch, was not the original representative of the actual values laid down by the founders who had established their headquarters in Odessa and then years later in Waco, Texas at the new Mount Carmel Centre, abandoned by Davidians in 1962. The duration of his rule induced an absolute opposite projection of the Branch on media. Ben and Lois Roden compelled the followers to aid the Jewish community in building a separate land. The ministry was pleased to announce that the well-organized Christian group settled in Israel supported both materially and morally by the Jewish population (Docherty 1998). During the split of the main Branch Movement under Koresh, the followers became violent and rigid in behavior. The controversy grows to an extent that Howell starts taking wives and the comparatively sensible people diverge from the group to alert people of the falsehood of the Davidians. During the siege of 1993, Koresh and his followers are burnt to death in the Davidian compound. Today, some of Koreshians still survive stubbornly awaiting for Koresh and his army to return with victory.