[E. Pluribus Unum]

In memory of the Branch Davidians shot by agents of the federal government as they attempted to escape the flames of their burning 'compound,' ten years ago today.

[Reactionary]

I agree. I've seen the FLIR, and as someone trained in the visual arts I'm convinced that the flashes on the video were not pieces of glass or debris. The flashes were gunfire. Danforth's explanation is pure bunk.

[davisfh]

I also agree. What I saw on that tape were flashes which
occurred with great regularity. No way that could have
been reflections from glass or from anything having to
do with the vagaries of nature, such as the wind blowing
a piece of reflective material. Not only are Danforth's
remarks bunk, but he is a liar (and not a very good one)
as well.

[The Other Harry]

Good post!

[Swordmaker]

One other problem with the government's scenario and Danforth's conclusions is that infra-red does not reflect off of the same surfaces in the same way as visible light. For example a long-infra-red photo of a room showing a rectangular mirror will pickup the temperature of the mirror... usually colder than the surroundings... and show a black rectangle, not a relfection of the heat patterns of the objects that are reflected in visible light.

How can "glass" reflect the long-infra-red of the sun repeatedly and consistently toward a moving object such as the FLIR carrying aircraft circling overhead to create glint? A stationary piece of glass would reflect the sun at a specific angle... and the aircraft would only be in the correct position to pickup that "glint" for only a split second and, having flown on, would be completely out of position to have any more "glint" appear at the same piece of glass in a particlular location on the ground.

This "glint" would have to be a reflector that is either spinning, vibrating, or radiate infra-red in a wide-angle with exactly the same appearance regardless of the observing position. Several of them. Doing exactly the same spin or vibration or radiating. The only source that meets this criteria is a radiating source... one that radiates in bursts... bursts that happen to coincide with the cyclic rate of fully automatic AR-15.

Ergo, it was automatic weapons fire.

Shame on you, Danforth, Janet Reno, William Clinton, and the major media that refuses to even look at evidence such as that which "The FLIR Project" produced.