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The Waco Massacre

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Many people believe that David Koresh (or the Branch Davidians) were responsible for the deaths of the 74 men, women and children who died in the inferno at Waco on April 19, 1993. This is the story that the FBI put out. It is a lie. The guns they had were legal. The local sheriff investigated and found no basis for complaints confronting them. These were law-abiding American citizens, even if they thought differently to well-nigh other folks. They trusted the U.S. Constitution to ensure their political rights, but they were murdered by agents acting under the authority of the U.S. government. Read this page if you believe otherwise. If you still have doubts, get the video Rules of Engagement for visual prove. Or read the book Armageddon in Waco . Or run into the picture show Waco: A New Revelation.

Waco occurred under the presidency of Bill Clinton, with Janet Reno and Wesley Clark in supporting roles. Already back in 1993 the US government demonstrated its contempt for the American people by carrying out a massacre in social club to "demonstrate" (on prime time TV) its supposed "authority" (a tactic favored past fascist governments). Post-obit the usurpation of the presidency in 2000 by the psychopath George W. Bush, and the subsequent installation of the insane John Ashcroft as Bush-league'due south Himmler, things became much worse. On 9/eleven about forty times as many people were murdered as at Waco. In both cases the murderers take and so far gone unpunished.

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Few Americans realize that on Feb 28, 1993 when BATF agents in National Guard helicopters zoomed in on the Branch Davidians' church and home, Mount Carmel Center, they did so with guns blazing, like Americans raiding a Vietnamese village in that far off war. ... It is probable FBI agents deliberately sabotaged negotiations with Davidians to prevent their exiting Mount Carmel. Their goal was to destroy the building and its damaging evidence, even if that meant the massacre of dozens of men, women and children, all witnesses to the brutal attack. — Ballad Moore: Overview of Davidian Massacre

After the February raid by the U.S. Bureau of Booze, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) of David Koresh'southward dissident religious community at Waco, Texas, the FBI and the U.Southward. Army took over, mounting a 51-twenty-four hours siege. This included such psy-war tactics as slumber deprivation of the inhabitants of the customs by means of all-dark broadcasts of recordings of the screams of rabbits being slaughtered.

Finally, despite David Koresh's pledge to give up upon completion of his written explanation of the meaning of the Vii Seals, the FBI and the Regular army attacked. At dawn on April 19, 1993, and throughout the morning, tanks rammed holes in the principal building and pumped (in the FBI's words) "massive amounts" of CS gas into the edifice, despite knowing that inside were more than a dozen children. The tanks demolished parts of the compound and created tunnels for the current of air to blow through. The buildings at this indicate were saturated with inflammable CS gas and spilled kerosene.

Around midday ii U.S. war machine pyrotechnic devices were fired into the main building, igniting a burn down which (because of the holes in the walls allowing the wind to gust through) spread rapidly through the complex of buildings and became an inferno. 74 men, women and children died — including twelve children younger than five years of age. Fire trucks were prevented by the FBI from approaching the inferno. After the compound had burned down the BATF flag was hoisted aloft to signify 'victory'. Subsequently the burned-out ruin was razed in an try to remove all prove of this premeditated murder of innocent civilians by agents of the U.S. authorities. Thus occured an barbarism which many Americans believe could never happen in their land. A look at the show presented in the film Waco: Rules of Engagement (and in the BBC documentary broadcast in the U.K. on Nov 28, 1998) shows that it did happen.

The lawyer for one of the survivors said at one of the U.S. government 'investigations' (or rather, whitewashes): In this land when people are accused of a crime they are arrested and given a trial — that's 'due process'. If found guilty of murder then maybe they are killed. Nosotros don't just kill them commencement — which is what happened at Waco.

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Here are links to documents on this website concerning this tragedy.

• Linda Thompson: What Happened at Waco

  Subsequently the BATF and FBI learned that the American Justice Federation had released a press release stating that the use of armed services troops against United States citizens violated federal law, specifically, the Posse Comitatus act, the BATF released a cover story, claiming that the tanks were "really" not Army, they were national guard, and had been brought in under the "Drug interdiction act" because they had heard in that location was a "methamphetamine lab" — three weeks after the FBI had already publicly announced there was never any question whatsoever of drug interest.

• Past Ballad Moore:
  • The Davidian Massacre
  • Report On Senate Waco Hearings
  • Waco Questions Congress Refuses to Answer
• Called-for Questions, a review by Jacob Sullum, a senior editor of REASON, of Armageddon in Waco and ii other books well-nigh Waco: The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation and Why Waco?: Cults and the Boxing for Religious Freedom in America.
• Transcript of Waco Negotiations

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Armageddon in Waco
Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict
Edited by Stuart A. Wright
The University of Chicago Press, 1995

On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Booze, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) launched the largest assault in its history against a pocket-sized religious community in central Texas. Approximately eighty armed agents invaded the chemical compound, purportedly to execute a single search and arrest warrant. The raid went desperately; half dozen Branch Davidians and four agents were killed, and afterward a l-one-day standoff, the The states Justice Department canonical a program to utilise CS gas confronting those barricaded inside. Tanks carrying the CS gas entered the compound. Later that day, burn broke out, and all seventy-four men, women and children inside perished.

Could tragedy accept been prevented? Was it necessary for the BATF agents to do what they did? What could have been done differently? Armageddon in Waco offers the virtually detailed, wide-ranging analysis of events surrounding Waco. Leading scholars explore all facets of the confrontation in an attempt to empathize one of the virtually confusing government deportment in American history.

The book begins with the history of the Co-operative Davidians and the story of its leader, David Koresh. Chapters evidence how the the Davidians came to problem authorities, why the group was labeled a "cult," and how authorities used unsubstantiated allegations of child corruption to strengthen their case against the sect.

The media's office is examined adjacent in essays that consider the effect on coverage of lack of time and resources, the orchestration of public relations by government officials, the restricted access to the site or to countervailing evidence, and the ideologies of the journalists themselves.

— From the back encompass of the book.

Here is the Summary at the end of the chapter "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" by James R. Lewis:

The implications of these studies and supporting arguments for the Waco situation should be clear. The Co-operative Davidians' chances for a fair hearing were severely damaged every bit shortly equally the label "cult" was applied. Subsequently that, the mass media selectively sought out and presented information about Koresh and his community that conveniently fit the stereotype. Information technology was only a matter of time before police force enforcement and the media had completely demonized Koresh and his followers. Anticult organizations provided ample provender for the ritual and symbolic castigation of this little-known religious sect, simplistically reducing the beliefs and practices of the customs to vapid, inane categories of brainwashing rhetoric. Later this demonization had been successfuly accomplished, the entire community — men, women, and children — could be consigned to their tragic fate with piddling more than a peep of protest from the American public, a public which overwhelmingly approved of the FBI's tragic last assault on Mt. Carmel.

Or more exactly, a public which would appear to consist mostly of gullible idiots, with no sense of injustice (except when information technology affects themselves), assertive what they were told (with the help of a willing media) by their sick-informed, sick-brash and violence-obsessed (and, equally it turned out, murderous) government, a public which overwhelming approved of a shameful instance of government-sanctioned slaughter of people who had cleaved no police (information technology is legal to protect oneself against attack), including xx-i children nether the historic period of 16:

Lisa Martin	thirteen		Sheila Martin, Jr.	15
Rachel Sylvia	12		Hollywood Sylvia	1
Joseph Martinez	8		Abigail Martinez	11
Crystal Martinez	three		Isaiah Martinez	4
Audrey Martinez	13		Melissa Morrison	6
Chanel Andrade	i		Cyrus Koresh	8
Star Koresh	6		Bobbie Lane Koresh	2
Dayland Gent	iii		Page Gent	one
Mayanah Schneider	ii		Startle Summers	1
Serenity Jones	four		Chica Jones	2
Fiddling 1 Jones	2

Click hither for the consummate list of Branch Davidian victims.

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Waco, The Rules of Appointment For those who more or less know what happened at Waco this movie supplies impressive visual corroboration, from footage of David Koresh (not a wild-eyed madman) explaining the Volume of Revelation to his followers to pictures of the charred and contorted corpses of the Branch Davidians who died in the inferno. For those who don't know what happened — those who still believe the stories put out past various U.S. federal government agencies — this film will at the very to the lowest degree induce a re-evaluation of those stories, mayhap fifty-fifty a realization that the U.S. regime lied in its account of its role in this affair.

• The Official Movie Homepage of Waco: The Rules of Engagement

  (There is an order form for the video on this site.)

Here are some reviews of this film:

• Jon Lebkowsky: Waco, Cults, and Ordinary Madness
• Ian Goddard: Review of Rules of Date
• Fiona Hughes: Unsettling Waco uncovers truths media reports left out

  Using 911 tapes, infrared surveillance footage, televised congressional hearings and survivor testimonies, the filmmakers mount a potent case against the ATF ([Bureau of] Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) and FBI, and paints them as cold-blooded murderers who clearly had the intent of killing people who stubbornly stood up to them. The FBI gassed the people who remained in the Branch Davidian compound and then let them burn to death.

Waco, The Rules of Date has, however, been severely criticised for ignoring available evidence and for promoting the view that the deaths of the women and children at Waco were the event of government negligence and incompetence rather than deliberate murder by regime agents. For farther details come across:

• Ballad A. Valentine: Waco "Documentary" Is A Hoax!

  [This film] is an effort to misdirect protest over Waco while pretending to be a protest piece. WTROE hides the most damaging truths and directs attending to false issues. Thus information technology neutralizes the outrage that would be felt if the truthful facts were known. Information technology forwards murder charges based on weak bear witness; once the charges are discredited, the public will be inoculated against considering existent evidence that the Davidians were murdered.

Further commentary:

• Roger Ebert: Review of Waco, The Rules of Engagement [link expired]

  Those who set on the government are not simply lawyers for the Branch Davidians or muckraking authors (although they are represented) but likewise solid heart-American types similar the county sheriff, the district Texas Rangers, the FBI photographer on the scene, and the man who developed and patented some of the equipment used by the FBI itself to film devastating footage that appears to show its agents firing into the buildings — even though the FBI insists it did not fire a single shot.

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The belatedly Linda Thompson's video (on YouTube) The Big Lie, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

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In April 2003, marking the tenth anniversary of the Waco Massacre, a new film was released. Co-ordinate to the producer:

Waco: A New Revelation is a moving picture so disturbing that before information technology was even released, information technology triggered new investigations in both houses of Congress and prompted the United States Section of Justice to reopen its own investigation into the events at Waco.

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Here are links to documents on other websites.

• Carol Valentine'southward Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum (or here)

  This includes:

  • Waco Survivor'southward Story(southward) — True or Faux? (or here)

    I encounter ii major problems with Mr. Thibodeau'due south business relationship(s): (a) of import elements in his accounts keep changing, and (b) none of the accounts are credible.  ... Without the survivors'due south stories, our attention would be focused on the testify, and the evidence SCREAMS that the mothers and children were murdered with malice aforethought.

  • Waco Suits for Waco Suckers (or here)

    The lawsuits and attendant media hoopla are part of a tawdry, choreographed vaudeville show designed to embrace up the Waco Holocaust nevertheless again.

• Robert McCurry: Waco, Texas: Where A Part Of America's Heart And Soul Died

  David Koresh and about 100 other men, women, and children perished in a raging inferno that should never take happened and would never have happened if the FBI, President Clinton, and Janet Reno had not acted in such a needless, senseless, irrational, inhumane, immoral, unconscionable, and reprehensible way by assaulting the Branch Davidian home with tanks and chemical weapons.

• Alan Stone, M.D.: Burned past Waco [link expired just come across here.]

  Touted every bit a legitimate inquiry into possible abuses by federal agencies, they [the House Waco hearings] amounted to naught more than than posturing, evasive Q and A's and partisan blowhard.

• Ace R. Hayes: Waco Whitewash [link expired but see here.]
  This includes excerpts from the legal complaint filed by old Attorney Full general Ramsey Clark, including:

  At about noon [19 April 1993] FBI agents on foot entered the Church, and fired shots which struck plaintiffs many of whom were dead, or unconscious from gas inhalation. Several FBI defendants proceeded to the 2d floor and placed an explosive textile on the height of the concrete Church vault [in which women and children were crowded on the floor] at the 2nd floor level. ... At about 12:20 p.m. a huge explosion blasted a hole several feet in bore ... [in] the concrete ceiling of the Church vault, crushing, cutting, burial and killing or injuring nigh of the approximately thirty persons in the vault. ... It [FBI] planned to annihilate the Church, to destroy bear witness of the ATF assail on February 28, including show of the first shots fired by ATF at the front door of the Church and the lethal firing at the Church from helicopters which the ATF denied.

  Hayes writes:

  The FBI murdered everyone they could and destroyed as much evidence as possible. This was the effect that screamed for investigation. The Joint Committee spent its ten days spreading whitewash. Anyone who watched and/or listened to the hearings, as PFP did, clearly noted the Alice in Wonderland quality. The two Davidians and their two attorneys gave a articulate and consequent story of ATF, FBI and military aggression and Davidian self-defense force. Still, every person on the imperial payroll told a story that was the exact opposite.

• Waco: The Inside Story co-ordinate to FRONTLINE.
• Alan A. Stone, Yard.D.: Report and Recommendations Concerning the Handling of Incidents Such As the Branch Davidian Collision in Waco Texas
• Alan A. Rock, Grand.D.: Sifting Waco'due south Ashes

  Why on earth did the ATF become ahead? The virtually realistic reply I have heard is that the ATF ... wanted to pull off a bold military-fashion coup that would exist widely publicized on television and allow it to display a huge collection of illegal weapons confiscated by its competent and mettlesome agents. Such a coup, it was idea, would strengthen and protect the ATF, impress Congress, enhance the agency'south prestige, perhaps even increase its upkeep allocation.

  

• Gary Zip: Holocaust at Waco
• Egon Richard Tausch: The Branch Davidian Trial
• Dean M. Kelley: Waco: A Massacre and Its Aftermath
• Seventeen Fiddling Children
• Roundup of Books on Waco

  David Koresh

• David Koresh: Commentary upon the Book of Revelation
  This is what David Koresh was working on, from 1993-03-02 until his death on 1993-04-19. It was his intention to surrender upon completion of this commentary but the FBI set on occurred starting time.
• Peter J. Boyer: The Children of Waco
• John Orr: Waco: A musical in three acts
• Kevin S. Van Horn: Assault on Waco
• Questions for Congress About "Waco"
  BATF AND FBI Crimes Against the Co-operative Davidians
• The Waco Affidavit
  A transcript of the affidavit used by the BATF in order to obtain a search warrant of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.
• Mount Carmel Heart — the survivors' home page.
• CAN and the Branch Davidians

  

• Koresh Inquiry Homepage
• Waco Never Again!
• The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation
• Waco Home Page
• Remember Waco
  Has links to 7 articles on the aforementioned site.
• Carol Moore: The Branch Davidian Trial and Appeals
• The Branch Davidian Allocutions
  • Livingstone Fagan
  • Jaime Castillo
  • Renos Avraam
  • Kevin Whitecliff
  • Brad Branch
  • Paul Fatta
  • Graeme Craddock
  • Ruth Riddle
• Branch Davidian Prisoners' Addresses
• Ian Goddard: Entreatment Fails: ATF/FBI Victims to Stay in Prison [Website "disabled" merely see hither.]

  To this 24-hour interval the crime of assailment confronting the few surviving Branch Davidians continues. Not simply were over fourscore lives snuffed out, only nine lives go on to be slowly snuffed out in prison. For these Davidians the vicious aggression of Feb. 28th 1993 has connected without a single break. Free the Branch Davidians.

• For farther articles concerning Waco, TWA Flight 800, the Oklahoma Metropolis Bombing and the So-Called War on Drugs see: Ian Goddard's Anti-Disciplinarian Journal.
• John Council: Called-for Questions
  Branch Davidian Survivors' Suit May Resolve Concerns Over Feds' Conduct
• Law Develop 'Military Mind Set'
• Waco Re-Examined — has links to many articles in the Dallas Morning News well-nigh the Waco massacre. [Web folio "disappeared" but see here.]

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New developments since July 1999 are given beneath. Notation which news sources describe David Koresh, non as a "sect leader", which he was (America has had many respectable religious sects, e.g., the Baptists), but rather as a "cult leader", thereby demonizing him.

• CNN: FBI to acknowledge firing potentially flammable devices at Waco
• Reuters: FBI Fired Pyrotechnic Grenades At Davidians
• CNN: New Waco probe could delay lawsuit against government
• 7am News: More Secrets Of Waco Raid Revealed
• CNN: Firm committee proposing 'blueish ribbon' panel to investigate Waco
• CNN: FBI tape shows field commander OK'd use of tear gas at Waco
• Yahoo! News: Reno Settles On Danforth To Lead Waco Investigation
• Seattle Postal service-Intelligencer: Democrat denies embrace-up of Waco tear gas show
• CNN: Video skillful: FBI fired shots
• Associated Press: Waco Investigator Gets Crush Casings
• Waco, FBI and the Co-operative Davidians: Updates, including:
  • Lawyer Blames U.Southward. for Deaths in Texas Sect
  • Waco: We are the jury
• BBC: Jury clears United states over Waco deaths
• Salon News: The Truth about Waco by David Thibodeau

  A survivor says the government still isn't albeit its role in the deaths of 74 Branch Davidians.

• Preston Peet: Danforth's Warren Study — Covering Upwardly at Waco
• David Hardy: Lawyer Reveals Proficient Witness Findings
• Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair: Was [onetime General Wesley] Clark at Waco?
• Ron Harold: Gen Wesley Clark — From Waco to Yugoslavia
• Michael C. Ruppert: Beyond BUSH 2

  Clark first hitting my radar screen manner dorsum in 1993, after it was learned that United states Regular army troops had been dispatched to the Co-operative Davidian compound in Waco Texas. At the time, Clark was the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood Texas. As the division commander, Clark was the one to authorize the release of armored units and ... very likely also in command of Delta Force personnel who operated on his turf, and engaged in a roughshod massacre of unarmed civilians trying to flee the called-for compound.

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Branch Davidian Victims

Free the Branch Davidians!

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• Ten years since the Waco massacre
  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/waco-a25.shtml
• The political lessons of the Waco massacre
  http://world wide web.wsws.org/articles/1999/aug1999/wac2-a27.shtml
• US Special Counsel Danforth whitewashes Waco massacre
  http://world wide web.wsws.org/articles/2000/jul2000/waco-j25.shtml

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