Posted on 02/29/2004 10:01:24 AM PST by ASTM366
As I do each year, I post this as a reminder to all of my fellow Freepers that our freedoms and liberties hang by a thin thread.
On Sunday, February 28, 1993, at 9:30 AM, nearly 100 heavily armed agents from Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco and Firearms arrived at the Branch Davidian Compound in central Texas, near Waco.
They didn't go to Mt. Carmel to attend morning worship services, they went to execute a search warrant for illegal gun parts. After debarking from the cattle trailers and trucks that they arrived in, they immediately shot the dogs and puppies near the main entrance door. The leader of the Branch Davidians, known as David Koresh, opened the front door and was immediately fired upon by agents. A gun battle broke out that left 4 agents and 6 congregation members dead.
For the next 51 days a church congregation and law enforcement agencies of the United States government held each other at bay. The encircled congregation was subjected to psychological warfare techniques for most of the 51 days. On April 19, 1993 the US government attacked the site and burned the facility to the ground. The origin of the fire is under constant dispute. Nonetheless, a total of 76 men, women, adolescents, children and infants died in the inferno.
To this day, not one federal agent has faced punishment or reprimand for the death of the INNOCENT men, women and children that died at Mt. Carmel.
And when are those 'terrorists' going to be endicted for spraying with bullets a building that they knew to house innocent women and children?
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