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April 19, 1993 - Fed's Slaughter Citizens in Waco
PBS ^ | 1998 | WGBH/Frontline

Posted on 04/19/2002 7:17:52 PM PDT by ASTM366

Having been attacked by over 100 armed BATF agents on a Sunday morning in late February 1993, the Branch Davidians, a small band of fundamentalist Christians living at a Church commune near Waco, Texas were surrounded. They had been surrounded for 51 days, subjected to psychological warfare techniques and surrounded by federal law enforcement agents who had lost all patience. What the BATF couldn't accomplish, the FBI was going finish. Despite the presence of innocent infants, children, adolescents and women the FBI ordered a military style attack on the buildings of the compound. The rest is history......


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: wacohorror
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To: takenoprisoner
LOL!

Keep judging me, Kook. I'm quite sure your God is proud of your hypocrisy.

221 posted on 04/21/2002 5:48:01 PM PDT by Johnny Shear
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To: Johnny Shear
Keep judging me, Kook.

Second thoughts having looked into the mirror eh? I'm not judging you. Your own words have condemned you. All I have done is to bear witness to your demonic deceptions.

222 posted on 04/21/2002 6:36:36 PM PDT by takenoprisoner
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To: takenoprisoner
demonic deceptions.

Yes, I am "The Great Satan"...

Now that I think about it...You conspiracy kooks do kind of remind me of terrorists. They way you both use the deaths of innocent children in order to advance your perverse agendas...

223 posted on 04/21/2002 6:46:20 PM PDT by Johnny Shear
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To: Johnny Shear
Now that I think about it...You conspiracy kooks do kind of remind me of terrorists. They way you both use the deaths of innocent children in order to advance your perverse agendas...

The only one promoting a perverted agenda here is you...I figure only a perverted child abuser would bother to defend state tyranny against innocent infants and children.

224 posted on 04/21/2002 6:57:48 PM PDT by takenoprisoner
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To: takenoprisoner
LOL!

I know you are, but what am I??

225 posted on 04/21/2002 7:00:06 PM PDT by Johnny Shear
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To: Johnny Shear
...but what am I??

I thought I was clear. It takes a perverted child abuser to defend state sponsored tyranny against innocent infants and children.

226 posted on 04/21/2002 7:12:29 PM PDT by takenoprisoner
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To: takenoprisoner
While the fires raged, Reno was drunk, bottle in hand, being driven aimlessly for 6 hours between Washington and Baltimore in a cab, so that she could not be found or contacted in any way.
227 posted on 04/21/2002 7:16:58 PM PDT by crystalk
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To: MoJo2001
The government had no particular dislike for Koresh personally...could very easily have taken him alone including just the previous Friday afternoon, in town very easily.

They were under orders to kill (murder) the entire cult, and indeed five had already been murdered by the helicopters before the land army ever arrived.

No warrant was ever brought or presented. The only warrant even sworn out, was against Koresh only, and claiming he was harboring illegal aliens who had overstayed their visa, or allowing such aliens to handle firearms. LOL. In WACO! For this, they shot the place to hell and killed them all.

228 posted on 04/21/2002 7:23:03 PM PDT by crystalk
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To: crystalk
The Warrant No, it was not a knock and serve. It was a seek and destroy service.
229 posted on 04/21/2002 8:03:32 PM PDT by takenoprisoner
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To: irish_lad
As a Freeper and a conservative, I can't believe the load of hooey you express about Waco. The Branch Davidians were a looney group of religious nuts who thought David Koresh was God. The Justice Dept had evidence of federal criminal offenses by Koresh and the group and went to arrest the dumb bastard, when he killed himself and everyone else inside by starting a fire.

You may claim to be a freeper but I don't think you watched the CSPAN congressional hearings or you wouldn't make such an ignorant statement. Two of the negotiators for the Feds testified that there was no reason to abandon a wait and see stategy and they also objected to the way that the people who did surrender were immediately traumatized by the Fed's and separated from their Children in full view of the Davidians...They were led to believe that their children would be taken from them for their religious faith...totally immunizing them from surrendering...

I am glad Timothy McVeigh is dead...He was no help to cleaning up the government...but I am ashamed of the horrible, unconstitutional abuses (that Government agents took an oath not to do) that were committed at Waco.

230 posted on 04/21/2002 8:53:32 PM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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To: Johnny Shear
Basically, I know there is a God. I mean, how couldn't there be? With all this world has to offer us. It didn't just "Happen".

In the heat of our battle yesterday somehow I missed this one from you. Your words spoken true and obviously from the heart here are good enough for me. Glad to know you aren't an aetheist and I will rescind that charge to beg your pardon.

Now as to the remainder of our day long duo yesterday, I would like to make these final points. Even if you are correct (and I doubt it with all my heart),that the remaining Davidians killed themselves and their children in the end, have you asked yourself would this tragedy have occurred if the BATF had never served the warrant in the manner they did to begin with?

Then, when the BATF initiated their raid on the Davidian church/home, knowing full well that there were innocent men, women, infants, children, and the elderly inside that church/home, when one of their very first acts was to shoot and kill the family and children's dogs located in front of the church , meaning they had to fire toward the church where all those folks were inside, were their acts not reckless and negligent child endangerment from the very beginning? From the planning, to the staging, to the execution? Since when are not these negligent and reckless acts alone not chargeable offenses? Since when do we allow LEO's to act with such reckless and wanton abandonment?

Bottomline, set aside for now who was responsible for the tragic results some 51 days later and in the end. Noone responsible has ever been charged for those initial crimes committed when they should have been. Had justice been served, and the criminally negligent agents responsible for this reckless child endangerment in the first place been properly charged at the very beginning... say from day two of the siege...then Davidians seeing this would have known our system to be just and fair.

But no. What we saw was stonewalling and arrogance on the part of our fed.gov. Their attitude being: we were righteous and they were wrong. They fired first and we had no choice but to shoot up the church and everything inside and out...til we ran out of ammo and forced to retreat. We did no wrong. We did not endanger those children.

tnp and hundreds of thousands of others say:

BULLCRAP!

231 posted on 04/22/2002 6:55:40 AM PDT by takenoprisoner
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To: Johnny Shear;ActionNewsBill;a.pole;takenoprisoner
Johnny Shear - I been around FreeRepublic for a long time and I have read the rantings of many ill-informed, ignorant posters on various threads.

Your posts to this thread have earned you a free set of horse blinders, a free tour of the BATF and FBI headquarters and your very own government issue SWAT team hood, jumpsuit, boots, monogoggles, kevlar vest and helmet, Glock Model 22 semi-auto pistol and H&K MP5 full auto machine gun and a one year supply of ammo.

I'm sure you'll fit right in with the boys at the BATF. Remember, don't let anything as trivial as the Constitution and Bill of Rights get in your way as you take out all the "Freaks".

232 posted on 04/22/2002 6:42:27 PM PDT by ASTM366
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To: ASTM366
Johnny SShear and others like him are disrupters.
The more you respond to them, the better they like it.
Ignore them.
233 posted on 04/22/2002 7:19:28 PM PDT by philetus
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To: ASTM366
Your posts to this thread have earned you a free set of horse blinders, a free tour of the BATF and FBI headquarters and your very own government issue SWAT team hood, jumpsuit, boots, monogoggles, kevlar vest and helmet, Glock Model 22 semi-auto pistol and H&K MP5 full auto machine gun and a one year supply of ammo.

Thanks! I'll take it all!

If the choice is between...

1) All that you have listed...

2) Or, being one of the FREAK Branch Davidians, freaks who abuse children, defy the law, kill federal agents, burn their own home and church to the groung, burn innocent children to death and kill themselves, all in the name of some whacked-out false profit named David Koresh...

3) Or, being some Government Hating Conspiracy Kook who exploits all of the above...

I'll GLADLY take what you have offered...

Or, I can always stick with what I am... A normal Republican who recognizes Ultra Right-Wing Paranoid Hype when I see it...

234 posted on 04/22/2002 7:19:35 PM PDT by Johnny Shear
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To: Cato the Censor
To: ASTM366 Puleeeeas-----David Koresh was a murderous thug who was abusing women and kiddies! 4 posted on 4/19/02 9:23 PM Central by Cato the Censor

Thats right! So they all had to die!

NOT!

235 posted on 04/22/2002 7:23:31 PM PDT by antidemocommie
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To: philetus
Johnny SShear and others like him are disrupters. The more you respond to them, the better they like it. Ignore them.

Sorry philetus...Yours is a weak accusation based on anything but the truth...

As I have stated many times in this thread...I ignore about 99.5% of these posts. Simply because I believe these people have a right to spew this crap. Especially on a message board named "Free Republic" where I am nothing more than a guest.

I honestly consider these conspiracy kooks the EXACT same kind of person as the ones who believe Cynthia McKinney and Oliver Stone...They just vote differently...

So, every once in a while, I get tired of ignoring the people who make me feel embarrassed to be a Republican and a Freeper...And I speak-up.

I don't care if you like it or not. Your opinion means nothing to me. I base that comment on nothing but this weak, false charge you have made against me. It's a VERY old song and dance. One used by someone void of any proof or evidence whatsoever.

236 posted on 04/22/2002 7:30:51 PM PDT by Johnny Shear
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To: Johnny Shear
FREAK Branch Davidians, freaks who abuse children

Why do you hate them so much? If you hate them so much do you see their deaths as a good thing? If so, why do you try to exonerate those police agents?

237 posted on 04/22/2002 7:41:11 PM PDT by A. Pole
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To: dalebert
"Does anyone have a clue as to why this was done. From what I had heard about the Davidians they were small potatoes. "

I'm convinced that one large factor was pride.
Plain and simple from the top on down. The inability to back down and say, "Eh, these folks are small potatoes. Let's pack up and go home."

After all, this was on national TeeVee! How could the BATF back down? Why, they'd look like a bunch of cowards!

How ironic that their actions made them look like just that.


238 posted on 04/22/2002 7:42:30 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: Johnny Shear
A normal Republican who recognizes Ultra Right-Wing Paranoid Hype when I see it.

Hmm. A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?

239 posted on 04/22/2002 7:43:21 PM PDT by A. Pole
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To: Lurker
Someday some people are going to pay for what they did. I'll be cheering when it happens. L 2 posted on 4/19/02 9:20 PM Central by Lurker

No way. We are all sheeple being led to the slaughter.

Authoritarianism is well on the way.

240 posted on 04/22/2002 8:06:07 PM PDT by antidemocommie
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