View Single Post
Old 03-09-2004, 11:01 AM   #13 (permalink)
The_Dunedan
Junkie
 
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.
__________________
"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.
The_Dunedan is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360