DnA 6-5: The Sixth Column - Waco Update
By: Lestat De Lioncourt
Some people have told me, "Its a dead subject, its past." Sorry, but I cannot condone the genocide of Americans because the federal government doesn't like their religion. (Remember the Constitution)
There have been some interesting developments in the Waco story that need to be told. We have recently acquired a copy of "Waco, the Big Lie" and were shocked at the footage that Linda Thompson had put together.
At midnight on November 19th, I received a phone call from another patriot, who informed me of recent developments. This patriot distributes the Waco Video out here in California, and if you want to get in contact with him, leave me e-mail on DnA Systems for his name and number.
He told me that an ex-congressman from Anaheim (CA), had seen the Waco Video, and was so enraged that he bought ten (10) copies of the video and was on his way up to Sacramento (CA, Capital) to show the video to people at the State legislature. He was to do this around 10am later that day.
I was asked to join in a demonstration on the Federal Building steps in Santa Ana (CA) to distribute information about the video and what happened in Waco. I was also informed that OCN (Orange County News) would be out to interview us. Needless to say, I joined them.
I showed up right on time, and began holding a sign and distribute information. Here is what some of the signs said:
FBI tanks Proof on
set fire to VIDEO that
Davidian FBI started
Compound! the firesI doubt any federal employee enjoyed their lunch that day. Every bus that went by, honked in support of us. Now, you people that have seen DnA Systems and the Column can get an idea of how uncomfortable I felt being there on the Federal Building's steps.
OCN showed up a few hours later, and began their interview. It was extremely biased on the government's side, but the coordinator wasn't going to let the media twist his words. He knew exactly what to say and how to say it.
The federal employees must have been rather pissed at us, because they decided to make their own statement after the news cameras were gone. Someone dropped a water-filled latex surgical glove from the top of the federal building. It hit the ground about twenty feet away from me, and startled everyone in the area.
Rule No. 1: The federal government hates it when you exercise your rights, and especially when they are the ones getting the shaft.
Several people were carrying flags in the demonstration. "Don't tread on me" and the flag of the thirteen colonies were some of them. People wearing shirts with, "Is your church ATF approved?" on them also marching the line.
As of the distribution of this article, I don't know what transpired in Sacramento. I am still attempting to get information. Try ColumNet for quicker updates or requests.
The local rally wasn't a complete loss. A few days later, the Orange County Register ran this article. Take careful note of what the author says in his article.
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The following is an exact copy of an article that appeared in The Orange County Register on Sunday, November 28th, 1993.
By: Alan W. Bock
THE QUESTIONS ABOUT WACO KEEP COMING
Although the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was harshly criticized in an official report for the way the stand-off between the Branch Davidians and federal agents began last February, the FBI was blamed hardly at all for the fiery way the stand-off ended in April - at least in an official Justice Department report issued early in October.
But new criticisms of the way the FBI and the Justice Department handled the stand-off and the final "solution" keep emerging. What's becoming clear is that we need to know much more about events in Waco last April 19, and that the more we know, the worse the FBI role looks.
Dr. Alan Stone, a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard who was asked by the Justice Department to undertake an independent investigation as an outside expert, didn't associate himself with the original evaluation.
Now he has issued his own report, and it is sharply critical of the FBI, which ignored its own behavioral experts on the scene, Stone says, and "embarked on a misguided and punishing law-enforcement strategy that contributed to the tragic ending at Waco."
Stone also said there were "serious unanswered questions" about why Attorney General Janet Reno thought it would be safe or advisable to use tear gas "in a closed space where there were 25 children, many of them toddlers and infants."
"It is difficult to understand why a person whose primary concern was the safety of the children would agree to the FBI's plan," said Stone of Reno's approval of the tear gas plan.
Stone places more blame on the FBI and the government than most official assessments have, but he still accepts the idea that the Davidians started the fire that led to the holocaust. But critical examination of the Justice Department's report and of independently-obtained videotape of the assault puts even this conclusion into question.
The California Organization for Public Safety (COPS) in corona has spent hundreds of hours examining videotape, first from people who taped material from satellite downlinks and then some original network affiliate footage. COPS "has discovered strong evidence that the government may have started the first fire as well as the second in the alleged "three points of origin" referred to in the Justice Department documents."
The Justice report itself refers to "an apparent deviation from the approved plan." The original plan was to dismantle the building only if, after 48 hours, all the people hadn't come out. But on the morning of April 19, the tanks - which were supposed to be just making small holes to insert tear gas - started knocking large holes into the compound. One entire corner of the building was knocked down, destroying a stairwell that could have served as a means of escape.
The most shocking aspect of the government assault was the complete destruction of a "gymnasium" building at the far northeast side of the complex - on the other side of the complex from where the media cameras were. This building was knocked to the ground by tank assaults, more than likely with people inside.
According to the government's aerial photo, taken from a Forward-Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) camera, which detects heat, there's an obvious heat plume showing in the rubble in an infrared photo taken at 11:59:16, about eight minutes before the government report says the first fire started, at 12:07:41. That heat plume spread through the rubble and eventually into the rest of the compound.
As the COPS report, accompanied by a videotape and released to various people in the media a couple of weeks ago, puts it, "The question of how and why the fires started cannot be deduced from the evidence we have reviewed to this point." But it seems pretty likely that the gymnasium fire, even if it came from a kerosense lantern being used by the Davidians, was started by the government action of demolishing the gymnasium.
Absolute certainty may not be possible in this case. But it would be useful to have the government's FLIR tapes examined closely by independent experts. Whether this would best be done by media organizations using the Freedom of Information Act or by an independent counsel is subject to question.
There's another aspect. On Nov. 5, the Dallas Morning News ran a news story to the effect that Parkland Memorial Hospital is suing the federal government for not paying for the treatment of three Branch Davidians who were brought there after the fire started.
Tom Cox, Parkland's director of legal affairs, thinks the government should pay because it called the hospital asking about bed space and specifically about the hospital's burn unit. The only question is whether authorities asked about the burn unity during a 6am call (the fire, remember started around noon) or during a later call.
There's much we still don't know about the fiery end of the Branch Davidians. But whether due to negligence or malice, the FBI's role gets less and less attractive the more we do know.
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Maybe this is a step closer to getting justice for those murdered at the hands of a cold and brutal government. We shall see. Agents of the FBI and ATF (this includes Reno and Clinton) better hope that God is a myth, because there isn't a torture in hell that these people do not deserve for a few thousand years. And that is being lenient.
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