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Davidian may refer to:
- Shepherd's Rod, a Seventh-day Adventist offshoot that later called themselves Davidians
- Branch Davidian, the most famous Shepherd's Rod splinter group, decimated in the Waco siege
- Davidian (song) by Machine Head from their album Burn My Eyes, also widely covered by other metal bands
- Davidian Revolution, changes in Scotland during King David I
- Davidian (surname), originating from an Armenian background
Usage examples of "davidian".
He said that the man was named Timothy McVeigh, and that he was possessed of extreme right-wing views, was a military veteran, and was particularly agitated over the deaths of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in April, 1993.
Although the Davidians, who were licensed gun dealers, had invited the ATF to inspect their weapons, the agency declined.
For over a month and a half, the Davidians were tormented by the sounds of dying animals, religious chants, loud music, and their own voices.
Nine Davidians were imprisoned for attempting to defend their families.
The murder of the Branch Davidians would indeed become a wake-up call for a citizenry concerned about an increasingly tyrannical, lawless government.
On April 19, they watched as the Branch Davidian Church burnt to the ground.
When Jane Pauley of NBC's Dateline interviewed Jennifer McVeigh about her thoughts on Waco, she said, "The way I saw it, the Davidians were just a group of people who had their own way of living, perhaps different from the mainstream.
Just back from Waco, where he had witnessed the carnage inflicted upon the Branch Davidians, McVeigh was instilled with a new sense of urgency and rage.
This is very interesting coming from a president that failed to apologize to Randy Weaver, the Branch Davidians, and the thousands of people wrongly accused, imprisoned and murdered each year by U.
The destruction of the Branch Davidian church prevented independent examiners from determining that the ATF had fired into the roofs of the building during the early part of the raid, and that FBI snipers had deliberately shot people trying to escape.
The Branch Davidians were "religious nuts," or "whackos," we are told, and hence deserved their fate — to be tortured, gassed, shot, and burned to death — women, children, pets and all.
In that regard the trial was little different than the trial of the surviving Branch Davidians, who were not allowed to introduce evidence that they had acted in self-defense.
The BATF lied about the presence of a methamphetamine lab on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in order to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents the military from being used for domestic law enforcement.
Consequently, tanks from the Army's Joint Task Force Six were used (driven the FBI) to demolish and gas the Branch Davidian compound.
They were heading for the Branch Davidian compound to get a look at the FBI stakeout, which had kicked off after a failed raid a week earlier on the "Ranch Apocalypse" resulted in the deaths of four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians.