Yoo hoo - ATF ...

... this is how you deal with barricaded suspects:

Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt, who is the fourth lawman in the post since 2000, says, like his predecessors, that he's not willing to risk a gunbattle just to arrest Gray.

"John Joe Gray is not worth it. Ten of him is not worth going up there and getting one of my young deputies killed," he said.

That's right ... ignore him.

There's no good reason that the FBI and ATF had to burn the Branch Davidian compound down; they were contained and the authorities had control of the situation. They could have just waited.

But that wouldn't get them any glory. Instead, they had to murder 85 innocents - just to prove a point.

pm