April 19, 1993 - Fed's Slaughter Citizens in Waco

PBS ^ | 1998 | WGBH/Frontline

[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......

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Unfortunately, many innocent citizens were killed at OK City

I hate what happened at okc

But many innocent people died at waco as well

[ActionNewsBill]

Yeah, I'm going to believe some propaganda piece by yet another Government Hating, Branch Davidian Loving Freak. Is that the video that shows the tank using a FLAME THROWER????

Real open minded of you....just go on believing the LIES that the Fed.gov has been spewing all along.

You call yourself a FREEPER? You disgust me.

[Johnny Shear]

What is has to do with Waco?!!! Do your homework, dude.

I consider people who buy into this Waco Conspiracy Crap in the EXACT same light as the Freaks who believe Cynthia McKinney.

[crystalk]

Your ignorance is exceeded only by your nastiness. I think you should get off of FReep.

[ActionNewsBill]

And don't forget about the Federal Agents who were MURDERED by these Branch Davidians when they tried to do their job.

As far as I am concened, they got what they deserved.

[MI_too]

"This was a janet reno deal."

Actually, Reno took the fall for the backlash from it, but it was most certainly "someone" in the White House who was calling the shots. Reno had been in the job of Attorney General for just a couple or three weeks at the time of the inferno, if my memory serves. And the confrontation and siege had been going for weeks before that. Heck, she probably was still learning her way around her office and where the executive dining room was when Waco was flamed. Put your money on Hillary and Vince Foster, if the truth is ever discovered.

There used to be some truly excellent threads on Waco on FR about 3 or 4 years ago. I recall one which gave a link to an audio of the second in command inside the compound screaming over the phone to the man he "trusted" in the government gang, that they were being shot at by people in the helicopters overhead. The "gummint guy" said it couldn't be, because there were no machine guns attached to the aircraft. The Davidian kept insisting they were being shot at, whether the guns were installed or not, and the G-man then agreed that it was so. Don't you wonder why that sort of testimony did not come out of Danforth's "investigation" of Waco?

My computer crashed from a virus last fall and all the links I had archived on many subjects were lost. Does someone still have access to the one I described, who can post it here again?

[Johnny Shear]

If you don't already work for BATF, why don't you apply? Otherwise, you are kissing their asses for free!

Sorry....I already work for the "Corporate Media", on loan from the Bush Administration. My current assignment is trying to supress the truth about 9-11. Cynthia McKinney is hot on our trail!!!

[ActionNewsBill]

Naaa.....I dont like listening to Art Bell and watching Pat Robertson. And I don't subscribe to The Millitia Short Wave Radio Network.

Bwahahaha! What a maroon! "Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is already made up."

What the he!! does art bell have to do with this?

[crystalk]

The only four Govt agents killed at Waco were former Clinton bodyguards who knew too much, and were killed on the roof by friendly fire. No Davidians were outside the building TO kill them.

I know whereof I speak, now shaddap already.

[Johnny Shear]

As far as I am concened, they got what they deserved.

And there we have it folks!!! THE reason why "Freepers" sometimes get a bad name. Why don't you tell that to the family members of these murdered public servants?

And you're "Disgusted"??? Please...

[A. Pole]

Naaa.....I dont like listening to Art Bell and watching Pat Robertson. And I don't subscribe to The Millitia Short Wave Radio Network.

OK, I do not know who Art Bell is and I do not watch Pat Robertson. Also I did not know that "Militia Short Wave Radio Network" existed until you mentioned it now. My primary source of information were the official sources. I could see the contraditions and VILE attitude toward those unhappy sectarians. I will NEVER forget how the "law enforcement" forces bragged about playing the screams of the rabbits being killed. From this moment I expected that those children will end up badly together with their parents.

Then I followed the official information about the trial of the survivors and it was horrible.

Please do your homework Mr. Shear.

[smorgle]

Learn the facts. Yes, you're entitled to an opinion but it's not worth much if it's an ignorant opinion. For starters---

Fact: The child abuse charges, like the drug lab charges, were trumped up, disproven and finally dropped.

Fact: The charge that David Koresh thought he was God was a propaganda fantasy. There was a tape of Koresh addressing the community, making fun of this foolishness by saying ironically, "I'm God." The comment heard in context is clearly not a serious claim and has many times been presented out of context to vilify Koresh.

[Johnny Shear]

The only four Govt agents killed at Waco were former Clinton bodyguards who knew too much, and were killed on the roof by friendly fire. No Davidians were outside the building TO kill them.

BINGO!!!!!! Bill Clinton the MURDERER! I knew it was just a matter of time...

Shouldn't you be on look-out for the black helicopters?? And please...Add a few layers to your Tin-Foil Hat???

[ActionNewsBill]

NewsMax.com 9/8/99 Carl Limbacher
"…A California newspaper editor who doubles as his town's vice mayor claims that three Texas hospitals were warned to set aside burn beds at least a day before the government's April 19, 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco…… Napa Sentinel editor Harry Martin told Inside Cover on Tuesday that he covered the tip about the burn beds in several radio interviews prior to noon the next day, when the first flames appeared in the windows of the Davidian compound. "On the eve of Waco we got a call in which we were told that they had reserved burn beds in three hospitals including Parkland in Dallas," said Martin. "I mentioned it on various radio shows that night, so it was logged into history."………."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1/29/2000 Terry Ganey ".....
Most chilling of all, Sgt. Barry reports: "Their [Delta] operators had penetrated the building on several occasions, and on one occasion, late April 17 or early on the 18th, they saw Koresh within six feet of them. They radioed back to the Tactical Operations Center for permission to grab him, and within minutes the word came back from the Justice Department, 'No, we already have a plan in place,' that being what happened on April 19. ....."

And you have the wherewithal to suck up to these murderous jack-booted thugs?

[crystalk]

Your "public servants" were murdered alright, but not by Branch Davidians, or any other Christians.

These were former personal bodyguards of Bill Clinton, and were murdered directly by orders of Hillary. They knew too much.

They died on the roof: from what position do you think a Davidian could have fired upon them?

Get off of FReep.

[crystalk]

You are right. The seventeen children under age 8, plus the various other innocent men, women, and older children who perished in the 4-19-93 fire, were BY NO MEANS BYKILL!

Much documentation exists showing that the deaths of the entire group were directly ordered from the White House, by Hillary and Hubbell and the others there. Reno was to take the fall.

As the fire raged, Reno was drunk on her tail and riding aimlessly in a cab between Washington and Baltimore so she couldn't be reached. Bottle in hand.

[Johnny Shear]

Get off of FReep.

No. I usually just ignore the freaks. But sometimes I get tired of the tripe and speak-up. Don't like it? I don't care.

Again...I see NO difference between you freaks and the freaks who actually believe Cynthia Mckinney.

[ActionNewsBill]

Do you get the feeling we are wasting our time with this fascist JBT bootlicker? He doesn't have any facts to back up his "arguement", but instead relies on nothing government propaganda and lamestream media reports to bolster his claims.

[Johnny Shear]

You are right. The seventeen children under age 8, plus the various other innocent men, women, and older children who perished in the 4-19-93 fire, were BY NO MEANS BYKILL!

Much documentation exists showing that the deaths of the entire group were directly ordered from the White House, by Hillary and Hubbell and the others there. Reno was to take the fall.

As the fire raged, Reno was drunk on her tail and riding aimlessly in a cab between Washington and Baltimore so she couldn't be reached. Bottle in hand.

And all the Jews called-in sick to their jobs at the Trade Center on 9-11.

[Johnny Shear]

Do you get the feeling we are wasting our time with this fascist JBT bootlicker?

That's funny...Those are the EXACT same words used to describe Freepers on DUhhhhh.