Waco, Tekken Re-Interpreted For Exhibit

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the forthcoming New York unveiling of a game revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas incident involving the siege of the Branch Davidian cult. The official site for this controversial art exhibit/game, called 'Waco Resurrection', explains: "...gamers enter the mind and form of a resurrected David Koresh... [and] are bombarded with a soundstream of government 'psy-ops', FBI negotiators, [and] the voice of God" as they "voice messianic texts drawn from the book of revelation, wield a variety of weapons from the Mount Carmel cache and influence the behavior of both followers and opponents by radiating a charismatic aura." The creators, C-Level, are also showing their Tekken Torture Tournament exhibit at the same venue, a PlayStation setup that "converts virtual on-screen [Tekken 3] damage into bracing, non-lethal, electric shocks."

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Re:As a Texan, and a former student who did my sen

[pecosdave]

Proof? Not hard to find.

The cult didn't spring up on Monday then get ATF'ed on Tuesday. There were families that left the cult. It sprung up initialy as a disagreement with he 7th Day Adventist Church. There were those that left well before the raids, those that left right before, and those that left during.

Would a 12 year girl and her mother both talking about it not be good enough? If not how about the 14 year old girl and her father? If the testimonies of the victims and their parents who were guilty for allowing it happen wasn't enough how about the evidence from the doctors who examined them?

I am a full supporter of freedom of religion and the second ammendment. If it were just a bunch of religious zealots hoarded up somewhere with weapons thats fine leave them alone. Chances are if you leave them alone they'll leave you alone unless it's a group like the Alquida that wants to kill us all.

No, like many others I wanted to call the cult innocent victims of the government, I really did. After reading about what Howell did I changed my mind. All women on earth are his to claim, hey, if I was in his position and I thought I could get away with that, why not? But when he didn't make a right of passage age that was in the leagal, or even moral bounds they needed to torch him personally. All of his followers in that compound needed to be punished, but not necessarily executed. Guns fine, religion fine, making 12 year old girls wear tampons to stretch them out enough to accept him, burn him.