Posted on 04/20/2010 11:26:05 AM PDT by FredDardick
It looks like somebody is going to have to update the Waco Siege page on Wikipedia. Apparently the whitewashed history that former President Bill Clinton would like us to believe regarding the 1993 federal assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, is missing important details regarding his own personal involvement.
In response to Bill Clinton’s highly publicized linking of the Tea Party movement to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in an op-ed piece for the New York Times, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris disclosed on Monday that it was Clinton himself, and not Attorney General Janet Reno, as Americans have been led to believe for the past 17 years, who called the shots during the 1993 botched invasion that led to the death of seventy-six people.
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And why is that? The feds secured a search warrant and were trying to serve that search warrant for eight weeks before the "raid" happened.
They only have the medias word about that. They were totally wrong about Ruby Ridge and Elian Gonzalas. I'd say they were wrong about Koresh, too."
Maybe you only have "the media's word about that", but I have my own common sense, my professional understand of US law, and the service of valid search warrants. If the government - state or local - shows up at you door with a search warrant and you repel them, you can't bet some violence is going to happen. Why should David Koresh be any different?
Exactly - I’m at fault sometimes jumping into something here without researching first but some posts I read are way out of touch with what is really the truth ... but I’m learning, esp. that there are smarter people here than me ... LOL
It was government incompetence that lead to the seige and it was government incompetence that ended it so badly.
The government did successfully put a stop to the alleged molestation by incinerating the children.
I don't care what it's called. Are you suggesting that "churches" be excluded from search warrants? I'm sure you'd have no problem extended that "right" to Mosques as well, right?
It wasn't just about apprehending and questioning Koresh. It was about - and the search warrant was obtained for searching the compound. The authorities needed to gain access to the compound, and a federal judge agreed. Why is that so difficult to understand?
The warrant was based on falsified affadavits. The entire federal investigation was completely bogus.
Texas Child Protective Services had investigated the allegations of child abuse at Mt. Carmel and concluded there was no basis for criminal charges.
Waco was one of the greatest examples of flagrant abuse of power by the US government in history.
Many didn't anyway.
But even if it was Abdul, I would not adovcate shooting into a building with children in it, especially not shooting first.
Just where is that steel front door anyway? Maybe Morris knows?
You can't bring down which building, and how, exactly.
If you're a 9/11 Truther - don't bother answering. I haven't time to respond to moronic imbeciles.
Well, it's so nice to know that at Waco, they were just there serving a warrant for child molestation, and that they rescued those poor, innocent children.
claimed (on tape) that he had the means to repel the Bradleys that had been dispatched to the scene.
Yep. Because we know there is no law about using the military in a civil action.
Should the FBI not taken him at his word?
Well, he couldn't take them at their 'word'. They repeatedly lied to him, and refused to let the one person he agreed to meet with, do so. They used tactics they used in VIETNAM to harass and debase the American citizens and innocent children living in the compound.
So, they upgraded to Abrams (disarmed Abrams), that were much more armor-capable than the Bradleys.
That wasn't the only thing they 'upgraded'.
Right. Maybe it was space aliens.
I'll take "Wait for Koresh to make one of his frequent trips to town" for 100, Alex.
I got the time, but don’t want to, do your own research daddio, it ain’t like it’s real hard or nuthin’,
What a ridiculously infantile statement completely devoid of intellect.
I keep bringing up Mosques and Muslims because the federal government has executed thousands - perhaps tens of thousands - of search warrants on Muslims and Mosques without incident in the years after 9/11. Why is that? Because when the feds show up with the warrants they aren't repelled.
Apparently - in your world - the way to evade prosecution is just to encamp yourself in a fortified building and surround yourself with children.
No. That was a totally different group. Nothing was ever proved that Koresh was anything but a self appointed religious leader. I remember one of the governments complaints against him was that they didn't think there was any heat in the compound and that was child abuse. The BD's believed that the government would one day attack their compound and thats why they armed themselves and thats exactly what happened. How many Freepers lately have talked about arming themselves against the government in fear that they are going to come after them?
uuhhhhh..... yeah, sure. That's it. They killed themselves with poison koolaid way before the Siege on Waco, which is why it was so easy for the FBI and the Military to raid the compound. The government was not to blame because they were all dead before the Special Forces Group torched the place and shot any moving corpses.
You have confused me greatly because we were not talking about Ruby Ridge but Waco which happened during Clinton’s term in office so how could it be GWBsr fault?
I recall hearing that Vince Foster was so sickened by the Waco murders that he was going to go puplic and was killed before he had the chance.
Exactly how does that allow them to search the fortified compound, exactly.
They had a search warrant FOR THE COMPOUND, not an arrest warrant for Koresh. Are you not smart enough to discern the difference.
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