Free Republic

It’s been 30 years since the ATF-FBI siege on the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas in 1993. The government siege led to a massacre of 76 people including 25 children. The deadly assault on David Koresh’s Branch Davidian compound took place from February 28 through April 19, 1993, over suspected weapons violations. The ATF had attempted to raid the compound and a gun battle ensued, leaving four government agents and six Branch Davidians dead. For the next 50 days, the government would use psychological warfare, such as playing the sound of animals being slaughtered, until ultimately the compound was...

New information confirms that a massive FBI raid on the home of a pro-life family in Pennsylvania and the arrest of a father of seven children was based on a bogus charge that a court had already dismissed. As LifeNews reported, Joe Biden’s FBI has raided the home of a well-known pro-life advocate and arrested him in front of his crying children on a bogus charge that had already been thrown out of court. Biden’s administration is coming under fire for weaponizing the FBI and Department of Justice to target pro-life conservatives. Mark Houck, a father of seven, is frequently...

No, that is not David Chipman standing in the ruins of the burnt-out Waco compound, site of the 1993 slaughter of members of the Branch Davidian religious group led by David Koresh. He was too busy back at the office helping to manufacture and disseminating lies about what went on at the compound to justify a brutal, murderous, and unnecessary assault. The animus he exhibited in his tenure at ATF towards gun owners and gun rights, to the point of using violence as a gun-control tactic, reflects a view he holds today and shares with the likes of Biden “gun...

WACO — The fire rose above the Texas prairie like a portent, an inferno consuming David Koresh and more than 70 of his followers in the Branch Davidian compound. Koresh's personal apocalypse was televised live worldwide just after noon on April 19, 1993. Questions about what went wrong began to mount before the ashes were cool. How could a 33-year-old ninth-grade dropout convince so many people that he was the Lamb and God had willed this terrible end - nurses and teachers, a postman and a Harvard-educated lawyer, Australians and Brits, New Zealanders and an Argentinian-born Israeli Jew? Above all,...

Nearly 24 years after the Branch Davidian standoff began near Waco, some federal agents are opening up about their experiences that resulted in the worst day in the history of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and ultimately the deaths of some 70 people inside the compound more than seven weeks later. "I've decided I'm never going to forget, and I owe it to the guys who were killed to tell their story," ATF Agent Gary Orchowski told the Houston Chronicle in a story published Sunday. Four agents were killed Feb. 28, 1993, when more than 130 ATF...

When U.S. Special Operations forces raided several houses in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in March 2006, two Army Rangers were killed when gunfire erupted on the ground floor of one home. A third member of the team was knocked unconscious and shredded by ball bearings when a teenage insurgent detonated a suicide vest. Who, the relative asked, was this man — the one represented by a blue dot and nearly killed by the suicide bomber? After some hesi­ta­tion, the military briefers answered with three letters: FBI. The wounded agent in Iraq was Jay Tabb, a longtime member of the...

Liberals don’t like Ted Cruz. Many hate him. But why? Is it his conservative politics? That might have something do with it. The most plausible explanation is that liberals fear any politician who dares to be non-white, non-conformist, and non-complacent, and who challenges their 1940s Rooseveltian worldview. Whenever someone like Ted Cruz comes along, liberals cling to their outdated values, and immediately set out to neutralize this threat via a process known as “othering.” According to Yahoo! Answers: Othering is a way of defining and securing one’s own positive identity through the stigmatization of an “other.” Whatever the markers of...

The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt was in custody on a murder charge yesterday. Bonnie Clark Halderman, 60, was found Friday at the Texas home of her sister, Beverly Clark, in a rural area near Chandler, Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said. "It's still under investigation, and we really don't know what the motive was," Nutt said. In 1993, a standoff at the Branch Davidians' compound outside Waco ended when the complex caught fire and burned to the ground, killing Koresh and nearly 80 of his followers.

The mother of infamous Branch Davidian leader David Koresh was stabbed to death and her sister was in custody today charged with her slaying, authorities said. Bonnie Clark Halderman, 60, was found Friday afternoon at the home of her sister, Beverly Clark, 54, in a rural area near Chandler in East Texas, Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said. “It’s still under investigation and we really don’t know what the motive was or what caused this to happen,” Nutt said. The sheriff said someone made a 9-1-1 call summoning deputies to the home Friday. Clark was being held without bond on...

Waco: The Inside Story

Even if you're not interested in debate, every American should know the following: There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January.....In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq. When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, consider the following: FDR...led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. Truman...finished that war and started one in...

My nephew, who is in the Navy, sent me this: "You have to go after the facts, they won't come to your office" General Bruce C. Clark Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S history. Let's clear up one point: President Bush didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11. Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims. FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did....

If you help make me the next President of the United States, I'll give you a . . . HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!!! That's right. Just vote for me in 2004 and I'll give you $100 million! Even the least skeptical among you must now be viewing this absurd offer with suspicious eyes. After all, how could I even come up with all that money? I can't even raise the money I'm supposed to need to launch my much-vaunted Liberal News Network. On top of that, what proof would I have that you even voted for me? Well, if this...

<p>WACO, Texas (AP) - Two-year-old Kimberly Martin fell asleep on a chapel bench during a rambling sermon about the end of the world. The religious group's leader, David Koresh, got angry. He jerked the sleepy toddler and made her sit beside him as he kept on preaching.</p>

To: PWatson @ SMTP From: JDTABOR Subject: Re: SEVEN SEALS Date: 3/10/94 Time: 7:21a And last, but not least.... Bob ==== The Role of Biblical Scholarship at Waco: One Attempt to Avert Disaster by James D. Tabor Associate Professor Department of Religious Studies University of North Carolina at Charlotte Copyright March 1994 by James D. Tabor. Permission is granted for non-commercial replication of or excerpting from this material, provided that appropriate notice is included of its copyright status, as above. ===== The Koresh Package includes the following electronic files from James Tabor (jdtabor@unccvm.uncc.edu): David Koresh's Unfinished Manuscript on the Seven...

This isn’t the first time in our history that we’ve had the possibility of dangerous weapons in the hands of a leader we didn’t trust, and this won’t be the first time we’ve responded to this possible threat with a military assault. In 1992, the U.S. federal government conducted a military siege at Ruby Ridge, ultimately killing Randy Weaver's dog, son and wife. Mr. Weaver was suspected of being a cult leader, hording weapons and ammunition for anti-government purposes. The government was never able to prove their allegations, but ends-justify-the-means justice was the explanation for the loss of life. Did...