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"They sought to be left alone and retreated into their compound when the government refused to leave them alone.

The government always makes an object lesson of such people – but it takes awhile to understand that for most people. Centuries, sometimes. Almost from the moment of this country’s founding, people whio just wanted to be left alone have been taught the error of their ways, from the so-called Whiskey Rebellion – which was rural farmers wanting to be left alone to barter among themselves rather than pay taxes to the government – to Waco and beyond."