I look more at the Ukrainian situation, or maybe Libya or Syria, when I think about defying an out of control government. Waco could have easily happened 150 y

I look more at the Ukrainian situation, or maybe Libya or Syria, when I think about defying an out of control government. Waco could have easily happened 150 years prior and had a similar outcome; fundamentally a small group cannot resist the power of the state in a head-to-head confrontation. It's only a popular uprising that can put real pressure on the power of the state. If a group of people in one place resort to violence, the state can crush them, but as with terrorism, you cannot wage war against an idea, unless the idea is held only by completely powerless people.