Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious CommunitiesWhile scholars, media, and the public may be aware of a few extraordinary government raids on religious communities, such as the U. S. federal raid on the Branch Davidians in 1993, very few people are aware of the scope of these raids or the frequency with which they occur. Inspired by the Texas State raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Latter day Saints in 2008, authors Stuart A. Wright and Susan J. Palmer decided to collect data on all the raids of