Posted on 04/19/2003 2:05:26 PM PDT by ASTM366
As I do each year, I post information to commemorate the attack by FBI agents in military vehicles on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.
The Branch Davidians, a reclusive group of Christian believers, had been attacked 51 days earlier by over 100 heavily armed BATF agents, surrounded and subjected to psychological warfare techniques by government agents. On April 19th the feds sent in military vehicles to fill the building at the Branch Davidian compound with chemical agents to flush out the remaining occupants. What resulted was a fire that burned to death nearly all the occupants; INNOCENT men, women, children and infants. Some committed suicide by self inflicted gunshot.
To this day the federal government has never accepted responsibility for the events of 1993, nor have they apologized for their ugly and glaring display of unchecked power.
In a tragic and spectacular act of revenge, Timothy McVeigh and his associates carbombed the offices of the BATF and FBI in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Yeah supercat...come on now, you know, the ones that the liberal press prints for NPR shows to highlight and help sell.
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Watch and learn, http://video.pbs.org:8080/ramgen/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/chsix_hi.rm
-Get Indepedent, 7/5/99
And that's why I like seeing this topic come up here. It's a fantastic way to find out exactly who at FR is worth listening to and who isn't. So thank you for posting it, and thank you to the apologists, for kindly letting me know that I can henceforth ignore you.
Bull----. The Feds pulled up in a canvas covered trailer. They shot the dogs.
Koresh opened the front door w/ a baby in his arms.
One of the agents shot him, killing the baby.
The rest of the agents opened fire on the door as it was closing.
The Davidians opened fire.
Some time later when the agents had enough, they signalled to the Davidians that they were through.
The Davidians ceased firing and allowed the agents to gather the dead and injured and leave.
Once BATF agents had been killed the feds couldn't let them get away with it.
The original raid was a huge fed mistake. They could have arrested Koresh any time he was in town but no, they had to make an example of them.
The raid was to showcase what would happen to any Right wing group that got too militant. IMHO
My point is that is you shoot or threaten to shoot at law enforcement offers under any circumstances it's almost certainly going to turn out very badly for you.
This is a fact regardless of one's attitudes towards federal, state or local police powers.
In the final analysis when you shoot at a cop you become an outlaw.
While I support the FBI, the way the Clinton Justice Dept. handled Waco was nothing short of criminal. Nothing justifies the slaughter of innocent women and children.
You don't give a sociopath the opportunity to turn into a psychopath.
Howell jogged, he went into town, and he was on good terms with the McLennan County sheriff.
But an obscure Texas sheriff arresting a guy who had stockpiled bunches of guns and who owed taxes wouldn't have been very glamorous, would it?
For the life of me, I don't know why the federal government didn't use local resources to resolve this problem.
Howell wasn't a menace to society; he was just a small-time loser with a bunch of pathetic saps gathered around him with no life.
Was that before or after the law-enforcement entered the premises?
If before, what evidence do you have to back up that claim, especially given that (1) the plan was for disjoint teams to enter the building throwing concussion grenades ahead of them while another team shot the dogs; (2) the teams had no sort of radio or other contact with each other. If after, was the initial entry, as conducted, legal or illegal?
No, at the time there was serious talk of eliminating the BATF and dividing its duties among other federal law-enforcement agencies.
The raid was intended to be a showcase for the BATF's capabilities and to prove that it was still relevant.
What he said.
And the Sheriff handled it, didn't he?
Do you call in the BATF when a local bar has a problem with fighting and mayhem?
Howell was itching to put his apocalyptic vision into motion, and the FBI and BATF, stupidly, gave it to him.
The 9 survivors were NOT involved in the murder of the federal agents, that is why they were aquited
As a very sweet black lady that I used to know and loved very much would say , "I 'no 'ats right!!"
Do you remember the neat little tobacco chewing Texan that brought in the 'railroad killer'?
Oh brother - no way!
What McNutty did was *not* in way deserving of reconition or a grant!
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