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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 65
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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WACO + 3 YEARS
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"Robert Gonzalez" was a government undercover agent who had
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penetrated the Mount Carmel facility near Waco, Texas. He was
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spying on the Branch Davidians who dwelled there. But the Branch
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Davidians all knew that Gonzalez was "some kind of a cop"
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[Reavis, 67] all the time that Gonzalez thought he was "secretly"
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spying on them. On the morning of February 28, 1993, Gonzalez
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was still at the Mount Carmel facility, even though he knew a
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raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) was
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imminent.
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According to later testimony by Gonzalez, whose real name was
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Robert Rodriguez, church leader David Koresh "turned and told me
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the ATF and the National Guard were coming." [71]
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Then, according to Koresh himself, "I went to the window, and I
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says, Robert, I says, it's up to you now... And I turned around
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and he just -- his eyes were real big and everything... And he
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goes, 'what do you mean?' I says, Robert, you know what I mean...
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We know they're coming." [ibid.] Koresh continued that
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Rodriguez's "eyes looked down... He was confused, same as
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[Pontius] Pilate. Pilate was confused. Pilate wanted to let
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Christ go." [72] Said Koresh to Rodriguez, "You've got to do
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what you've got to do." [ibid.]
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Rodriguez feigned ignorance. He told Koresh he had to go home
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for breakfast. Before he left, Koresh shook hands with him and
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said, "Good luck, Robert."
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Rodriguez got to a telephone and urged desperately that the raid
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be called off. But it was too late. [72-73]
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Subsequent to the final horror of April 19, 1993, "E.R.", writing
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in the Fall 1993 issue of Anarchy magazine, wondered, "[What] if
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Koresh really was the messiah. I am not advocating this view.
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But if you're Christian, ask yourself why you did not ask: Could
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this man be the messiah? Must the True Messiah abide by the laws
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of an imperfect nation-state? Does resistance to the FBI prove a
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man or woman is not the True Messiah? Now, very few people
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believe in a Coming Age. If there really is a 'God,' and if this
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God 'sent' a divine incarnation to live among us, to usher in a
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millenium of perfect peace, would that Messiah get good press?
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Or would we simply kill him?" [E.R., 7]
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-+- "Showtime" -+-
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The theme of the February 28, 1993 BATF (Bureau of Alcohol,
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Tobacco and Firearms) raid has been called "Showtime." The
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agency brought along plenty of cameras to film the excitement.
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BATF faced upcoming congressional budget hearings on March 10th.
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Dramatic footage of the government agents boldly confronting the
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"crazed 'cultists'" would hopefully make BATF seem heroic. That,
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in turn, could get more money approved by the Congress. [Reavis,
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32-33]
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A sub-theme of the raid is "The Good O Boys", a.k.a. "The Good
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Ol' Boys". It was widely reported in mid-1995, even in the
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mainstream press, that video footage had surfaced showing the
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antics of BATF agents at their annual "Good O Boys Roundup". The
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"roundup" is a sort of drunken picnic limited to white rednecks
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in the agency. After months of dispute, the video has now been
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confirmed by the government as genuine.
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We can thank some of the much maligned citizen militias for
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bringing the Good O Boys video to the public. (By the way, many
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militia members are African-Americans, in case you have been
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propagandized into a skewed perspective by mass media
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propaganda.) The September 1995 issue of Media Bypass magazine
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(1-800-4-BYPASS) told the story of how the Gadsden Minutemen and
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others penetrated one of the BATF bacchanalias and uncovered the
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story. Acting on rumors, Jeff Randall, a former police officer
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and commander of the Gadsden Minutemen contacted a retired
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Alabama state law enforcement officer. The anonymous officer,
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identified as "George" in the article, "revealed that he had a
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videotape of the 1990 roundup and dozens of color photographs of
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federal agents consuming moonshine [and] ridiculing minorities."
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[Myers, 20]
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Randall was able to infiltrate the 1995 "roundup" where he shot
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dozens of photos. He then sent copies of the photos and the 1990
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videotape to the Washington Times newspaper. From there the
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story was picked up until even the "three stooges", Peter, Dan
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and Tom of, respectively, ABC, CBS and NBC "News", were forced to
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cover it.
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The material uncovered by Randall and associates had such
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memorable footage as the infamous "nigger check point" sign found
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in the 1990 video. "Any niggers in that car?" the sign demands
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of potential attendees of the "roundup". According to a sworn
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affidavit by the anonymous retired state trooper "George", "The
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check-in point also had an effigy or dummy of a black person
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hanging from a tree. This effigy remained at the check-in point
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throughout the event. Moreover, ATF agents and other law
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enforcement officers would surround each vehicle as it approached
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[the roundup entry], stop it and rock the vehicle while shouting,
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'Got any niggers in that car?'" [ibid., 21-22]
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The Media Bypass article details the whole sad story. A picture
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emerges of an agency filled with drunken, drug-abusing, racist
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cowboys pretending to be agents of law enforcement. These were
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the armed screaming yahoos who descended on the Mount Carmel
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Center on that fateful Sunday morning in late February of 1993.
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You are probably unaware that the inhabitants of Mount Carmel
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were "mostly women, children and elderly people." [Moore, 2]
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Additionally, half of the Branch Davidians present were "of
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African, Hispanic, or Asian descent." [ibid., 17] In the case of
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those Branch Davidians who were Caucasian, the "good ol' boys"
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may have internally dehumanized them with rationalizations that
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they were "religious nuts" or "hippy freaks".
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So that's the sub-theme of the BATF raid: "The Good O Boys".
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The "good ol' boys" came pumped up and ready to kick some
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"nigger" butt that Sunday morning.
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-+- Helicopters -+-
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Subsequent to the initial raid, there were bullet holes in the
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roof of the Mount Carmel Center. Were bullets fired from above?
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Because of the April 19th fire, forensic evidence which could
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have proven this beyond any doubt was destroyed. Yet it seems
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highly probable -- so probable as to be beyond reasonable doubt
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-- that bullets were indeed fired from above, into the building.
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Here is what we know:
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** Marjorie Thomas, a nurse, says that on the morning of February
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28th she went to her room in the third floor loft. She looked
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out the window. Says Thomas, "I saw three helicopters
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approaching... As [one of the helicopters] drew near, I heard a
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sound. It was a bullet coming -- which came through the window
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and shattered the blinds. We all dived to the floor." [Reavis,
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130]
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** Catherine Matteson was heading toward her room . She writes
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in her memoir that, when she reached her room she started to lay
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down "when I heard the sound of helicopters roar in my ears...
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As I went to the window to my amazement there were three
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helicopters in formation and facing David's room and firing as
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they came... As they made a turn toward the front of the
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building I realized there existed a great possibility of my
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getting shot, so I hit the floor. When they reached the front of
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the building, all hell broke loose..." [Reavis, 131]
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** According to Annette Richards, "I was getting ready for
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worship. I heard a noise like a helicopter, and then I heard
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bullets start firing, bullets start coming in from every
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direction. And the helicopters were flying over the building.
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The sound of it was so low that at that time I thought they had
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landed on the roof. Bullets were coming from all directions."
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[Moore, 144]
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** Several of the Davidians' children who were sent out from
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Mount Carmel after the initial February 28 raid made drawings of
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the event. "Their drawings, sketched with crayons while the
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children were in the custody of Texas welfare authorities, show
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bullet holes in Mt. Carmel's roof and helicopters hovering
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overhead." [Reavis, 132]
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** Dick DeGuerin and Jack Zimmermann, attorneys for the Branch
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Davidians, visited the compound during the 51 day siege. They
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say that there was a great deal of forensic evidence that BATF
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agents shot through doors, walls, and the roof. Zimmermann, an
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army colonel and Vietnam veteran, testified that "You could see
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the sky through the roof. They appeared to be exit holes, and
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the wood was splintered downward. My conclusion was that they
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came from the sky." [Moore, 149-150]
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** Fifteen minutes into the raid, Davidian Wayne Martin phoned
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911 and complained about helicopters firing on them:
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WAYNE MARTIN: Another chopper with more people; more guns
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going off. They're firing. That's them, not us.
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STEVE SCHNEIDER: There's a chopper with more of them.
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LIEUTENANT LYNCH: What!?
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STEVE SCHNEIDER: Another chopper with more people and more
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guns going off. Here they come!
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LIEUTENANT LYNCH: All right, Wayne, tell....
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STEVE SCHNEIDER: We're not firing. That's not us, that's
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them!
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LIEUTENANT LYNCH: All right. Standby. I'm tryin' to
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reach 'em. Stand. Don't return fire, okay?
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STEVE SCHNEIDER: We haven't been.
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LIEUTENANT LYNCH: What?
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STEVE SCHNEIDER: We haven't been.
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Indianapolis attorney Linda Thompson, who has been a major force
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in combatting government disinformation regarding the Waco
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tragedy, put it this way: "This is a very frustrating part of
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dealing with explaining Waco, 'cause first I have to explain to
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people, 'What you heard was not true,' and 'Here's how I know
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it's not true.' We spend a lot of time undoing the damage that
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the government did with its own propaganda." [Thompson]
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Or, as I have stated previously: "Everything you 'know' is
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wrong."
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In this brief article I cannot possibly undo all the
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anti-Davidian propaganda that's been disseminated by "newsfakers"
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and FBI/BATF liars. If you are saying to yourself, "But what
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about 'this?'", I encourage you to read Reavis' and/or Moore's
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books. For information on these well-written books, see the
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"Works cited" section at the end of this essay.
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The Davidians did not have a "suicide pact". All the surviving
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members testify to this. The real killers at Waco, the federal
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gestapo and its hierarchy, right up to and including Billy Boy
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Clinton, made up that story as they fabricated so many other
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distortions. During an April 20, 1993 press conference, Clinton
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declared that "some religious fanatics murdered themselves."
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[Moore, 411] It's not that simple.
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More lies from Clinton were heard on the CBS program 60 Minutes
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on April 23, 1995. Asked by Leslie Stahl, "What about Waco?",
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the Arkansas lothario let loose with his usual bluster: "When
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that raid occurred, it was the people who ran their 'cult
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compound' at Waco who murdered their own children," claimed Mr.
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"I didn't inhale." But Clinton is lying. Can't you see that?
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As the tanks bashed through the walls of their residence that
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April 19th, the FBI's electronic eavesdropping devices picked up
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the sounds of people praying, of "children crying and calling for
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their parents." [Moore, 330-331] Massive amounts of CS gas were
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pumped into the building as tanks continued to smash into it,
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slowly but surely collapsing the structure. Many of those inside
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became trapped; others had no time to escape when fire flashed
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through the building; many of those who managed to get out of the
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fiery death-trap were severely burned or were forced to jump from
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high places.
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The most likely cause of the fire is quite simple: The FBI,
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early in the siege, cut off water and electricity to Mount
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Carmel. The Davidians began using kerosene lanterns. To avoid
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the danger of snipers' bullets, they stacked hay by the windows.
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The place was a "tinderbox". One tank knocking over one lantern
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could have sparked the flames. Or was it the CS gas? "CS gas
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and methylene chloride, the solvent with which the FBI claims it
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was mixed, both are flammable and will sustain and accelerate a
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fire." [Moore, 364].
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Says Attorney Jack Zimmermann: "People were trapped; the
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building was falling down, the damn tanks had just destroyed the
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structure, and nobody knew where they were because the ceiling
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had fallen in." [qtd. in Moore, 349]
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Works cited
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Bradford, R.W. "Mass Murder, American-Style". *Liberty*
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[magazine], June 1993
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"E.R." *Anarchy* [magazine] #38/Fall '93 (p. 7)
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Moore, Carol. *The Davidian Massacre* (Best is to order directly
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from Moore; phone (202) 986-1847 for more info; or order from
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Gun Owners of America.)
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Myers, Lawrence W. "Operation Achilles Heel". *Media Bypass*
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[magazine], Sept. 1995 (Phone 1- 800-4BYPASS)
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Reavis, Dick J. *The Ashes Of Waco*. New York: Simon &
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Schuster, 1995. ISBN: 0- 648-81132-4
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Thompson, Linda. Interview by Chuck Harder broadcast on For The
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People radio show, Feb. 11, 1994
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Wattenberg, Daniel. "Gunning for Koresh". *The American
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Spectator* [magazine], August 1993
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