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Waco Crime Cover up - SWAT Teams and Toy Soldiers
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Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Waco Crime Cover up
Police State: SWAT Teams and Toy Soldiers


I remember watching the footage the ATF took of their initial military assault on the Branch Davidians. I noted the abundance of military style black nylon commando gear, automatic weapons and bullet proof vests in this “show for dough”. Remember that the ATF were due to go before a Senate Appropriations hearing for more funding and needed something “spicy and spectacular” to encourage the Senate to give even more money to this already un-Constitutionally operated agency. I remember watching the raid proceed even though the entire operation had been totally compromised and everyone in the chain of command knew it. I understood why they pushed ahead despite this, it’s a simple and fatal error that most poorly trained military officers make, the assumption that you can bull your way through by force of arms. I remember watching as these thugs, sociopaths with a gun and a badge, ...
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Remember Waco “You could have arrested me jogging as I jogged up and down the road. You could have arrested me at Wal-Mart . . . this ain’t America anymore when the ATF has that kind of power to come into anybody’s home and kick doors down.” ~ David Koresh (1959-1993) Ten years ago Saturday, on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolution, the United States Government executed 73 innocent Christians. Of these, 30 were women and 22 were children; 41 were of African, Hispanic, or Asian descent. Although there had been no trial, the Government put each one of them, quite literally, to the torch. ...
(Offsite) Posted on: 4/17/2003 7:55:00 PM - Read Article
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Youthful nightmares. Children of Mount Carmel haunted by Davidian days

To the world, David Koresh was the Waco madman. To 11-year-old Kevin Jones, he was just Uncle David, the wavy-haired guy who wowed him with electric guitar solos and bored him with long, apocalyptic sermons. To the world, Mount Carmel was a cult compound festering with child abuse and violent extremism. To the boy, it was like summer camp, a rough-hewn retreat where he rode go-carts, fished and helped his father install electrical wiring. That boyish idyll ended the same Sunday morning the world learned of Mount Carmel and its master. On Feb. 28, 1993, Kevin's father, David Jones, came home to alert Uncle David to an impending federal raid. ...
(Offsite) Posted on: 4/12/2003 2:35:00 AM - Read Article
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/coxnet/branchdavidian/0406_children.html

Feds on Waco: Shooting in the dark Science offers an unbiased approach to problem solving, but good scientific practice can be jeopardized when controversial topics are at issue. At Waco, government science failed. To illustrate, compare the problem-solving on Waco technical issues with NASA's approach to getting a crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft back to Earth. Who can forget the response to "Houston, we have a problem?" Swiftly, decisively, in a zero-tolerance-for-error atmosphere, engineers, scientists, flight controllers and astronauts formulated a solution that brought the spacecraft home. Calculations were made and checked, models built, hypotheses generated and tested. Many individuals applied their expertise, and the work was folded into a solution. NASA's "successful failure" is something Americans are proud of; it demonstrates how well ingenuity and know-how can operate when facing a critical technical challenge. ...
(Offsite) Posted on: 4/12/2003 2:02:00 AM - Read Article
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Expert: Government science failed at Waco Says conclusion agents did not fire weapons possibly pre-determined An independent forward-looking infrared, or FLIR, analyst says the government used inappropriate scientific methods to "prove" federal agents did not fire at Branch Davidians as they tried to escape their burning complex in Waco, Texas, a decade ago – perhaps, she says, to reach a predetermined conclusion that exonerates federal agents. Barbara Grant, an independent consultant in electro-optics who has studied extensively the March 2000 re-enactment of the final hours of the Waco siege authorized by special counsel John Danforth, says in a new research paper, "The key issue [of the test] was whether flashes recorded on infrared imagery represented the signatures of weapons fire or some other phenomenon, such as solar reflections off debris." "Non-government experts concluded that the flashes were gunfire; experts retained by the government concluded they were not," she said. ...
(Offsite) Posted on: 4/12/2003 12:46:00 AM - Read Article
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10 Years Later, Uneasy Acceptance It's been nearly two years since Sandy Connizzo wrote her last letter demanding more details about the death of her youngest son, Michael Schroeder. Schroeder, 29, was shot seven times by agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Feb. 28, 1993, as he tried to make his way back into the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, hours after a shootout left four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians dead. Inside were his wife, Kathy; their 3-year-old son, Bryan; and Kathy's other children, Scott, 12, Jake, 10, and Chrissy, 8. Ten years later, Connizzo still doesn't have the answers she wants. But she's not as relentless about getting them anymore. In recent years, her focus has been on healing. Trying to forgive. It's what Mike would have wanted, she said. ...
(Offsite) Posted on: 2/28/2003 11:14:00 PM - Read Article
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Branch Davidians asking for new trial against U.S. government Branch Davidian survivors & victims' families say they are entitled to a new trial of their wrongful-death lawsuit against the US government because US District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Waco has exhibited "deep-seated antagonism" against them. The surviving Branch Davidians & their families claim in a lengthy brief to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that Smith erred by not removing himself as judge over the $675 m lawsuit. A 3-member panel of the New Orleans-based fed appellate court is set to hear oral arguments in the case Monday morning. "I think even the Branch Davidians are entitled to a fair trial, & they didn't get that," said plaintiffs' attorney Mike Caddell of Houston. "That really says it all. The real question is are we going to have a double standard in this country for the Microsofts & the Enrons & the rich & powerful? Are we going to have one standard for those people & another standard for the poor or the disadvantaged, unpopular outsiders?" ...
(Offsite) Posted on: 2/12/2003 2:48:00 PM - Read Article
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