"This is not an attack..."

[RascalPuff]

Tolerance Threshold Expansion, continued:

Consider the government and media-declared 'mass suicide' (publicly telecast murder of all the immediate witnesses to the rogue government, 51 day televised siege and attack: 'This is not an attack on your compound!) Waco, Tx., 19 April 1993.

They lied on live television ('This is not an attack!') about the armored vehicle crashing through the wall and piercing the propane storage tank, instantly filling the windswept compound with flammable gas (easily ignited by any spark, pilot light or round of tracer) and tactfully cutting off the only escape route (having had and studied a detailed floor plan of the compound for nearly two months. this was not an 'accident'); murdering all but a few of the nearly one hundred occupants, but, they 'didn't lie' about who fired the first shot when it all began fifty one days earlier ('David Koresh did it'); "There will be no coverups in this administration' - Janet Reno, the day after the catastrophic burning of the ‘Branch Davidian compound’, 4/19/’93.

The record is not here to defend David Koresh, on the other hand, nearly one hundred innocent people including several dozen children were pinned down for nearly two months in ‘the compound’. Their electricity and water was cut off, helicopters hovered overhead playing loud music through the night: knowing there were dozens of children, with as many innocent parents, in that trapped community. Culminating in the perishment of all but a few survivors, after 51 days of siege.

‘The best the ATF could do’ (without intervention from a higher authority).

After the situation became known to the nation via television, radio and the press, then ‘rumors’ - and contrived ‘testimonies’ - began to circulate about David Koresh having intimate relationships with underage adolescent girls. It is noteworthy that this demonisation - the allegations about David Koresh and underage children, did not become an issue until the siege was nationally televised and reported. The original reason for the ATF going to the compound, was to question two individual men about whether they were legally in possession of firearms or not. ‘Cult leader’ Koresh’s alleged relationships with underage girls was not an issue at all; neither was he ever legally charged with, let alone convicted of any such behavior.

A social worker, or routinely assigned sheriff’s deputy could have been dispatched to question the two subjected men at issue. The two men the ATF wanted to question, routinely left the compound to jog and run errands. Instead, the ATF chose to pin nearly a hundred people down in their residence, on private property. Had those people survived, it is likely that they all would have served as witnesses to who fired shots at whom, first. So, apparently for this reason, all of the witnesses were perished by a fire deliberately started by the rogue ATF and the rogue F.B.I., and then heinously proclaimed as a ‘mass suicide’ - perishing the witnesses to what started the siege in the first place.

(Why is the record issuing this subject now? Because: it happened, with impunity, and, it can - therefore - happen again.)

Refer the film - and video - 'WACO: The Rules Of Engagement. The New York Times called it “.. a doozy of an investigative expose!” Siskel & Ebert gave it ‘two thumbs up!’ The video jacket reads: “WACO: The Rules Of Engagement, is the story of federal law enforcement gone tragically wrong. It shows how the F.B.I. (and the ATF) repeatedly lied to the public and American political leaders in order to focus overwhelming deadly force on a group whose diversity of race, national origin and religious beliefs made them easy targets for a lethal abuse of its members’ civil and human rights.’

(TIME magazine’s 24 July 1995 front page and feature article called the Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms <ATF> law enforcement agency: ‘The most hated federal law enforcement agency in the U.S.’)

This dissertation is not interested in ‘system busting’, or contention with elements of law enforcement. The record is a staunch system-protector, an avid law enforcement advocate and ally. On the other hand, here are somber arguments with assigned authorities who patently betray their oaths of office; abuse their power, compounding this abuse by covering up their transgressions, blaming innocent people, and lying to the public and key representatives of the American government and protectors of the - much revered - U.S. Constitution (and their fellow officers) about the cited abuse of power(s).


Waco revisited: The horrifying liquidation of Waco's Branch Davidian sect, which began with an ATF raid 10 years ago, displayed our government's capacity for lethal lawlessness. (On the Home Front).

The New American

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Ten years ago on February 28th 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) staged an armed raid against the Branch Davidian community outside of Waco, Texas. Four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians perished needlessly in that eminently avoidable shootout.
But those tragic deaths merely foreshadowed the hideous events of April 19th '93: The prolonged gassing of the Davidians' church complex by the FBI; the ensuing fire that enveloped the complex; and the horrifying spectacle--captured on forward-looking infrared tape--of federal paramilitaries directing automatic weapons fire into the burning complex, cutting off avenues of possible retreat.
The federal assault on the Branch Davidians actually began on February 27th, when the Waco Tribune-Herald published the first installment of a seven-part hit piece on David Koresh and his followers. Built largely on accusations from disaffected former Davidians, the series depicted Koresh as a sexually depraved, potentially violent megalomaniac and his followers as hopelessly deluded cultists. Three of the individuals interviewed in the newspaper series were working with ATF Special Agent Davy Aguilera, and executives of the Tribune-Herald had discussed the series with the ATF prior to publication.
The opening installment, observes Texas journalist Dick Reavis in his study The Ashes of Waco, "was accompanied by an editorial scolding local lawmen--but not mentioning the feds--for having turned a blind eye to goings-on at Mount Carmel, perhaps because its composers knew that federal action was at hand." Prior to the raid, ATF public relations director Sharon Wheeler had contacted local reporters to arrange a February 28th press…

(Warning: due to lack of follow up justice against the adversarial elements, this could happen again (and again), in your country, state, county, town and neighborhood.) http://opensalon.com/blog/kaidu/2010..._united_states

[Graybeard]

This thread is closed Rascal until you show what it has to add to the ToeQuest Misson Statement.

Graybeard (mod)