Originally Posted by cmac2012

Well yeah, but did that mean ATF and FBI should have just gone home saying something, "We didn't realize you people were this into it. Go ahead and do what you was doing."

I mean what, they were supposed to wait for 6 months? While food and water were being taken in regular, for the children's sake?

I dunno, I often don't feel that charitable to govt. heavy-handedness, it just seems like the expectation is they (govt.) have to be perfect, while the people they deal with are allowed normal human frailties.