Bseed,
I don't know what you read, but the consensus in the gun community is that Waco and Ruby Ridge were about gun confiscation and the governments concern about what those people might do with their guns. Waco started out as an ATF publicity stunt, that's why all those cameras were there for the initial assault.
Ruby Ridge was about Randy Weaver not wanting to testify about a militia he had never joined and about having a shotgun that was too short to meet government rules.
I am less informed about the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia.
After these events, the government concocts more motivation to justify their assaults.
Big RiB