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A 10 page book review of Armageddon in Waco (1995), a book in which editor Stuart Wright has assembled an impressive array of opinion and alternative perspective that castigates the government's actions at Waco as prejudicial, inept and unjust. This examination of Wright's text, first of all, offers an overall view of the editor's intentions and his writers' perspectives before offering the reviewer's personal opinions, critiques and observations. No additional sources cited.
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obscure religious cult housed near Waco, Texas. During this time, the nation witnessed media accounts of the resulting tragedy that largely served to rationalize the governments handling of the situation
by presenting the cultists as extremists deserving of such violence. In his volume of essays, Armageddon in Waco (1995), editor Stuart Wright has assembled an impressive array of opinion and
alternative perspective that castigates the governments actions as prejudicial, inept and unjust. This examination of Wrights text will, first of all, offer an overall view of the editors intentions and
his writers perspectives before offering the reviewers personal opinions, critiques and observations. Summary : In his preface, Wright points out that there are two predominant themes that serve to
tie the essays together. The first theme is that "marginal religions and their members are according diminished human and social value" in American society, due to their association in
the public mindset with "disparaging stigmas and widespread stereotypes" (Wright, 1995, p. x). An additional theme is that "minority religions are more likely to be victimized by extreme efforts of
social control, most notably by the government," but that such actions can be "hastened and incited by selected interest groups" (Wright, 1995, p. x). As these themes suggest, the text
presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and not due to the actions of David Koresh
or his Branch Davidian followers. Throughout the volume, Wright and his contributors make qualifying statements that acknowledge that Koresh and his followers were not blameless, such as stating that "while
a case for the culpability of law enforcement can be made in the Waco affair, an explanation of the problem cannot be reduced simply to government malfeasance" (Wright, 1995, p.
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