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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 66
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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Waco + 3 Years: You Might Not Know
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** Janet Reno claimed to be concerned about the children at Mount
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Carmel. Yet during the siege the FBI, supposedly under control
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of the Justice Department, blasted the Branch Davidians "with
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ear-shattering noise and aimed powerful electric spotlights into
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their windows at night to prevent them from sleeping, and turned
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off the community's water supply and cut off its sewers."
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[Bradford, 21]
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** David Koresh had never been convicted of any crime.
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[Wattenberg, 32]
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** Giving his opinion on the Branch Davidians, McLennan County
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[Texas] Sheriff Jack Harwell stated, "They had their property
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line, and they were basically good people. All of 'em were good
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people." [ibid.]
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** Machine guns are not unconditionally outlawed in the United
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States. [ibid.]
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** The type of search warrant used by BATF was not a so-called
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"no knock" warrant. "Though the search warrant issued for the
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February 28 action did not authorize a 'no knock' raid, [the
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BATF] had practiced only a forcible entry." [Reavis, 139]
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** One of the Branch Davidians, Jaydean Wendell, had been a
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police officer in Hawaii before she came to Mount Carmel. While
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others of the women -- for example the aged Victorine
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Hollingsworth -- "bent low over the children... trying to protect
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them [from flying bullets]... Wendell grabbed a rifle... went
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into her room, climbed atop a bunk bed, and while lying there,
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apparently exchanged shots with the raiders in front of Mt.
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Carmel." [ibid., 166]
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** Among the Branch Davidians were a Harvard-trained attorney
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(Wayne Martin), an electrical engineer who had, until 1992,
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taught physics in an Australian high school (Graeme Craddock),
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and two nurses. [Reavis]
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** Charges against the Branch Davidians of child abuse "were
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repeatedly shown to be false." [Reavis, 229]
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** BATF tank drivers who circled the compound during the siege,
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"mooned the residents and made obscene hand signs." [Reavis,
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249]
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** Most of the guns at the Davidian compound were purchased as
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investments and had never been used. The "armaments that Koresh
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and [Paul] Fatta owned had more than doubled in value since the
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date of their purchase." [Reavis, 293-294] In point of fact, the
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"Davidians had a profitable legal gun business." [Moore, 47]
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** It is not, per se, illegal to "stockpile weapons." Texas
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Rangers "recovered about 200 guns from the ashes of the Mount
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Carmel Center, roughly two per resident. Statewide in Texas, 17
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million people own 60 million guns, or about four per resident."
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[Wattenberg, 32]
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** "The massacre of the Branch Davidians was the greatest
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government massacre of civilians on American soil since the
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massacre of 300 Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890."
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[Moore, 4]
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** "I thought I was going to die that day [Feb. 28]. I thought I
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was going to get blown away... Put in that situation where
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you've got women and children crying and screaming, 'Oh, my God,
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please help us, save us, do something! They're shooting at us!
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'...You do anything, you pick up anything you can, if your life
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is threatened, to defend yourself." -- Kevin Whitecliff before
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sentencing. [qtd. in Moore, 141]
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** "I don't care who they are, nobody is going to come to my
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home, with my babies around, shaking guns around, without a gun
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back in their face. That's just the American way." -- David
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Koresh [qtd. in Moore, 167-168]
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** With all the gunfire, "it is inevitable that BATF agents
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injured, and even killed, some of their own." [Moore, 171]
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According to Newsweek magazine, a federal source in Waco stated
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"there is evidence that supports the theory of friendly fire."
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[qtd. in Moore, 171]
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** "The FBI strictly controlled its daily press briefings,
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limiting the number of questions and punishing reporters who
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displeased them by refusing to call on them." According to Time
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magazine photographer Shelly Katz, it was the worst suppression
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of the press he had seen in 27 years of journalism. [Moore,
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235-236]
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** "I recognized early on that the government was systematically
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poisoning and prejudicing public opinion with a blitz of
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inflammatory disinformation to stir up hatred against David
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Koresh and to foment a thirst for his blood... " Former Black
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Panther Eldridge Cleaver [qtd. in Moore, 238]
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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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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 Gun
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Owners of America.)
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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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Wattenberg, Daniel. "Gunning for Koresh". *The American
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Spectator* [magazine], August 1993
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