On Koresh:
The FBI admitted, in the final week of the Mount Carmel siege, that they knew Koresh was -not- having sexual contact with minors. This in a memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh to AtGen Janet Reno. Koresh never made any claims to Godhood, although he did state on -one- occaision that he believed he was prophetic. However, he always made it very clear that he did -not- equivocate himself with the OT prophets.
The intentional use of CS blister gas ( which is converted to Hydrogen Cyanide when the kerosene suspension used to atomize the CS crystals catches fire ), combined with the use of pyrotechnic grenades, flash-bangs, and tracer machinegun ammunition, constitutes not only arson, but the use of Chemical Weapons, which is a War Crime. Incidentally, CS is illegal to use in warfare, for this very reason.
It turns out that the entire thing was a raid to collect a Form 4 tax stamp which, btw, the Branch Dividians DIDN'T owe. They owned no Class III weapons; no machineguns, silencers, sawn-off rifles or shotguns, cannon, or explosives. The ATF searchwarrant lists a number of weapons, but no Class III devices, ergo, no tax owed, ergo no need for the raid.
That's right, because of a glitch, a 150-man assault team was sent to collect a $200 tax which the accused persons didn't owe in the FIRST PLACE. Koresh went jogging in Waco every day; he could have been arrested then. Instead, AtGen Reno decided that an example needed to be made of those "gun people."
For this, the ATF fired something like 4500 rounds of AP .308 into a CHURCH full of kids. The first casualty: David Koresh's baby daughter, shot through the head when Koresh opened the door to ask what was going on.
For the next 82 days, the ATF and FBI circulated ever more rediculous and incindiary rumors about the Davidians; Child Molestors, Meth Labs, Koresh Thinks He's Jesus, et al. As each of these was torn apart, a new one arose to take it's place, and the Media Whores dutifully parroted each new lie.
When the Mount Carmel Church finally burned, thanks to the abovementioned arson and WMD use, the Davidians who tried to flee were fired upon by HRT and Delta Force snipers, including HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi, who had been responsible for the murder of Vicki Weaver some months earlier.
The few survivors were tried for an array of offenses, such as Daring To Defend Themselves Against His Majesty's Men, Resistance of Unlawful Invasion, etc etc. Basically, it all came down to FBI and ATF trying to cover up the fact that they invaded a man's home, with an illegal warrant, got their asses handed to them in the initial firefight, and then burned that man, his wife, their children, and 80-odd other people to death in a cloud of flammable, toxic gas.
When the surviving Davidians were acquitted, the judge declared the -verdict- to be In Contempt, and locked the survivors up anyway. It took nearly 3 years to get these people, ACQUITTED OF ANY CRIME, released.
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"I personally think that America's interests would be well served if after or at the time these clowns begin their revolting little hate crime the local police come in and cart them off on some trumped up charges or other. It is necessary in my opinion that America makes an example of them to the world."
--Strange Famous, advocating the use of falsified charges in order to shut people up.
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