I watched it last week. I can see both sides of it, but my independent side of it just thinks that had they just left those people alone and let them build their little city out in the middle of nowhere, none of it this would have happened.
Of course, if I chose to live in Antelope, Oregon (I think that was the name), then my reason for living there would be to *not* have to put up with a bunch of nutty cult people.
The whole thing went crazy quick though - food poisoning, bombing, attempted assassination - even the hard core folks started realizing it was going off the rails.