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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 1 Num. 24
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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[From an interview with Linda Thompson on the *For the People*
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radio show, Feb. 11, 1994. Host is Chuck Harder.]
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[Continued...]
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CHUCK HARDER: Linda Thompson is our guest. And Linda, you were
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talking about FINCEN and O-S... OSEDEF?
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LINDA THOMPSON: OCDETF. Yeah.
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HARDER: OCDETF [Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force], and
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the Treasury, and how it ties to who?
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THOMPSON: Scott. And some of these other cases.
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HARDER: Well, let's hear it.
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THOMPSON: All right. FINCEN is the 92 computer data bank center
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that has all this information about all of us. They're using...
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Government agencies are supposed to all hook into it. Every
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single state has a liaison officer for FINCEN who works for the
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state patrol. So the first thing anybody investigating this
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should do...
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HARDER: Um-hmm. [Understands]
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THOMPSON: ...is find out who *their* liaison officer is with the
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state patrol in their state. Um... But... What I found most
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interesting was that both of these organizations operate under
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Treasury, not under the Department of Justice. Treasury is not a
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law enforcement body. It never was intended to be. It got that
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way only through the corruption that has occurred with the ATF.
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Originally the ATF was formed as a tax enforcement agency for
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bootleggers. They were supposed to enforce payment of liquor
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taxes,...
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HARDER: Um-hmm. [Understands]
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THOMPSON: ...that's all. They're a tax collection agency. Same
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thing for the IRS.
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Well we all know how now the IRS and ATF, both, have goon and
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thug squads that go out, break in people's doors, and essentially
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commit mayhem across the country as if they are some sort of law
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enforcement agency -- *which they are not!*
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Um, but in any event, this OCDETF interested me quite a bit and I
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found out that they have agents of the IRS that fly with OCDETF
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that first identify assets of people -- for instance, drug
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dealers. They use the FINCEN computers to identify assets; they
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have IRS go with them, to point them out when they make the raid.
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The first time FINCEN was used was to identify all the assets of
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Iraq in this country. And then those assets were seized. You
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might remember that from a few years ago.
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HARDER: Um-hmm. [Affirmative]
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THOMPSON: So I would think it's very important to the
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understanding of the Scott case to realize that we have a
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government that is targeting assets that they want, *first*,
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before they do raids on people!
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HARDER: Well now we know also, there's been some investigation in
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the Scott case, and I believe it was a newspaper out there was
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amazed that they found out that the multi-jurisdictional forces
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even had gotten a property appraiser to tell 'em what Scott's
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property was worth before they went in and raided him!
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THOMPSON: Well OCDETF *is* the multi-jurisdictional task force.
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HARDER: O.K.
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THOMPSON: Because they are the primary agency of that. Because
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they're under Treasury department. They *do* fly the black
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helicopters. They have IRS agents on the helicopters with them
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and, apparently, Drug Enforcement Agency agents.
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HARDER: All right, all right. So they killed Scott.
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THOMPSON: Um-hmm. [Affirmative]
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HARDER: And what's the bottom line with that case now?
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THOMPSON: No apologies. They killed him.
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HARDER: That's it.
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THOMPSON: That, and the property is in limbo. His wife has had a
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lot of problems trying to fight what has gone on around it in
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terms of seizure. They originally seized the property as if it
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was a drug asset.
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HARDER: Um-hmm. [Understands]
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THOMPSON: Um, and so far as I know, they haven't been successful
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in keeping it. Because they didn't... *Now* we have a Supreme
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Court ruling that says you must *first* convict the person of a
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crime before you can seize their property as a drug asset.
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HARDER: Right. Right.
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THOMPSON: You also have the "innocent purchaser" protection,
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which I think his wife would fall under. Because that property
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was in her name as well.
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So. But what you're seeing is a government agency that's *using*
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this FINCEN to *target* properties that they want to steal,
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essentially. And then coming up with some sort of bogus way to
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raid the property.
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This is applicable to the Branch Davidians as well. *Their*
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property is in the middle of property owned by a guy named
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Perry(?). Perry has wanted their property for years, and in fact
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was able to get -- before Koresh came there -- he was able to get
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about 900 acres of it. There is supposed to be a "bullet train"
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that runs through that part of Texas, through Waco, directly
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through the Branch Davidian's property, that would essentially
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make it worth millions of dollars when that goes through.
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So there were a lot of potential profit motives involved as well
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in targeting the Branch Davidians.
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HARDER: In other words: These people are in the way; let's get
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rid of them.
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THOMPSON: Uh-huh. [Affirmative]
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There were a lot of people after David Koresh for different
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reasons. He had disgruntled former members that were trying to
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oust him. He had government people that wanted his property. He
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had a neighbor that wanted his property...
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HARDER: In other words, this is kind of a new method of "eminent
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domain."
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THOMPSON: Um-hmm. [Affirmative] Absolutely.
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HARDER: [Bursts out laughing]
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THOMPSON: And you know, the king is sovereign. It's not really
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new. They used to do this in feudal times. If the king wanted
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property, he'd send his henchmen in to, you know, cut your head
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off and take your property.
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HARDER: So that's what we're doing now, only we're calling it
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"justice."
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We'll be right back with Linda Thompson and more on Waco. Don't
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go away.
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(to be continued)
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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