This evening, I flipped over to the Newsmax Channel and started to watched what I soon determined was the documentary film,
Waco: The Rules of Engagement. I had seen it in the theater when it came out in 1997, and what I planned to be just a few minutes to catch a bit of the program turned into 2.5 hours.
The film was nominated for an Oscar and was produced by two former liberals who radically changed their attitude during its production.
The video includes congressional hearings with comments from Schumer, Biden, Reno, Lantos, and several LE officials all lying. The end is devastating, not just the fire, but in the FLIR (filmed from a hovering aircraft) evidence that clearly shows gunfire by men outside the compound during the final stages. Also, evidence of incendiary devices launched outside the building that started the fire, in contrast to comments made by apologists that the Davidians started the fire. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I encourage you to find a copy and renew your knowledge of what happened and who was involved.
I think it pertains to today's toxic environment.
I remember reading many years ago a man who died mysteriously, a man who was a FLIR expert and had spent considerable time examining the FLIR recording and claimed to have incredible evidence. During the program, I poked around a bit, using the search terms "Waco Koresh introspection". The Infraspection Institute is an organization mentioned in the film. I wanted to see if they were still around. Well, I didn't get that far, because this link was at the top of the hit list with the title,
The Man Who Knew Too Much.
It's about the man mentioned above, Carlos Ghigliotti, who it is claimed died of a heart attack at the age of 42 near the completion of his research (commissioned by Dan Burton's Congressional Committee). He had recently revealed to the article's author that he had a huge revelation and had made the same comments to his sister just before he cooperated with the black hats and died. Good article and worthy of additional research.
More about the film, there were missing scenes I remembered from the film I saw 20+ years ago, including more prominent footage of an impassioned Congressman Sonny Bono asking questions during the hearing. This version only has a five-second shot of him in the background without him speaking. I also remember seeing the FLIR footage of 5-10 men shooting what appeared to be machine guns in the large open field behind the compound during the climax of the fire while people were running and trying to escape from the inferno. (By the way, Reno made me ill listening to her denial that her people did not fire a single shot and did not set the fire).
The wiki page for the film say the three producers had a falling out (no details about what) and as a result, a different version of the film are available. Will have to check that out as that likely explains the "missing" footage.
Oh, one final thing. I learned that David Koresh (not his given name) chose his last name because it is Hebrew for Cyrus. In the book of Isaiah, chapters 44-45 contain the prophecy of Babylon's overthrow (the same event recorded by Daniel 6 - the Writing on the Wall). In that passage, Cyrus is referred to as one who is Anointed (ie Messiah). The only gentile in the Bible given that title. Read it, it's a stunning prophecy more than 100 years before the events unfolded. The historian, Herodotus records the military plan by Cyrus to drain the Euphrates river in order to enter under the Babylonian city the night the empire was defeated. Isaiah names the general (
by name!!!) and the strategy of "entering through the dried river" more than a century beforehand.
Anyway, in contrast to the media's label of Koresh as
"The" self-declared Messiah, he actually referred to himself a
"a" messiah, one of several prophets, anointed by God to reveal God's plan and prior to the Return of Christ.
By no means am I defending Koresh. I think he had serious issues. But I am defending the 70+ people died April 19, 1993.
Sad time in our history.