Posted on 04/19/2003 2:05:26 PM PDT by ASTM366
As I do each year, I post information to commemorate the attack by FBI agents in military vehicles on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.
The Branch Davidians, a reclusive group of Christian believers, had been attacked 51 days earlier by over 100 heavily armed BATF agents, surrounded and subjected to psychological warfare techniques by government agents. On April 19th the feds sent in military vehicles to fill the building at the Branch Davidian compound with chemical agents to flush out the remaining occupants. What resulted was a fire that burned to death nearly all the occupants; INNOCENT men, women, children and infants. Some committed suicide by self inflicted gunshot.
To this day the federal government has never accepted responsibility for the events of 1993, nor have they apologized for their ugly and glaring display of unchecked power.
In a tragic and spectacular act of revenge, Timothy McVeigh and his associates carbombed the offices of the BATF and FBI in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
It's unfortunate that too few people know what actually happened ten years ago today.
Interesting. But there is simply no way to know who did the shooting. Educated guesses are just that--guesses.
Woudn't it be possible that some people killed each other and themselves to avoid the horror of burning alive? In that case, its still the government's fault, because they laid seige to the complex to begin with.
It just makes me so sad, because we've just seen a war in Iraq where our military was instructed to make a great effort to avoid destroying any mosques, and they did a superb job of respecting the faith of the Iraqi people. Contrast that to what the Clinton administration approved doing to the Branch Davidian compound in our own country. It was a church facility and was laid seige to and the congregation killed, with little regard for religion or life.
Its scary and dangerous for the government to act that way. That's all I'm saying. Its scary. No matter what crimes the Davidian leadership committed or didn't commit, no American citizen deserves to meet their fate in that way.
That's what Bill Clinton said in his statement after the conflagration. Is that you Bill?
The feds are good, the feds are good and don't ever forget it.
What utter anarcho-nonsense. Some bank robbers enter a bank to rob it, and the police arrive to surround it. The robbers decide to kill themselves and their children/human shields they brought along, and whack-jobs of the Salon Bolsheviki years later proclaim that the fault lies with the police for arriving.
The Feds fired first. (A Fact, stipulated at trial by the Prosecution)
The Feds killed Vernon Jordans child. (Also a fact stipulated at trial by the Prosecution.)
No warrant was presented at the time of the 'raid'. (Also a fact stipulated at trial by the Prosecution.)
The surviving Davidians were charged with Murder of Federal Officers, and all of those charged with that crime were acquited by a jury of their peers.
I'm not a liar _Jim. You are, among other things.
One of these days, the people who were in charge of this monstrosity in Waco are going to be called to account for their crimes, and I'm going to laugh....
With any luck I'll be able to look into their eyes just before they meet their makers.
Who knows, maybe you'll be one of them.
Sleep well.
L
The "monstrosity in Waco" had a name: David Koresh.
All of you knee-jerk government bashers, by conveniently ignoring David Koresh's ultimate responsiblity for his debacle, prove nothing but that he still controls and manipulates your emtotions from hell, where he is today.
So the bank robbers(Davidians) entered the bank(America) to rob(not pay taxes on machine guns) it. Am I following your logic correctly?
So...were there any illegal weapons found?
(HINT HINT: POSSIBLE ATTACK BY A *DAD* OF ONE OF THOSE 10 YEAR OLD GIRLS HE DIDDLED.)
Sorry - you're still missing my point. Disregard ...
Were there? All Mr. Koresh had to do was submit to the lawful warrant and take his case to court, rather than murder innocent children.
The answer is, Koresh was responsible for the murder of several dozen men, women, and children. It wouldn't make the slightest difference if he had done it with "legal" rat poison or by beating them with tree branches. As it is, he did it with a variety of firearms, gasoline, and a match.
Now, why do you defend him?
The feds did the murdering that day.....ergo, 60 ton tank/CEV crashes into the church wall....feds announce, "This is not an attack." What were those poor religious folks supposed to do?
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