Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 66
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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Waco + 3 Years: You Might Not Know
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** Janet Reno claimed to be concerned about the children at Mount
Carmel. Yet during the siege the FBI, supposedly under control
of the Justice Department, blasted the Branch Davidians "with
ear-shattering noise and aimed powerful electric spotlights into
their windows at night to prevent them from sleeping, and turned
off the community's water supply and cut off its sewers."
[Bradford, 21]
** David Koresh had never been convicted of any crime.
[Wattenberg, 32]
** Giving his opinion on the Branch Davidians, McLennan County
[Texas] Sheriff Jack Harwell stated, "They had their property
line, and they were basically good people. All of 'em were good
people." [ibid.]
** Machine guns are not unconditionally outlawed in the United
States. [ibid.]
** The type of search warrant used by BATF was not a so-called
"no knock" warrant. "Though the search warrant issued for the
February 28 action did not authorize a 'no knock' raid, [the
BATF] had practiced only a forcible entry." [Reavis, 139]
** One of the Branch Davidians, Jaydean Wendell, had been a
police officer in Hawaii before she came to Mount Carmel. While
others of the women -- for example the aged Victorine
Hollingsworth -- "bent low over the children... trying to protect
them [from flying bullets]... Wendell grabbed a rifle... went
into her room, climbed atop a bunk bed, and while lying there,
apparently exchanged shots with the raiders in front of Mt.
Carmel." [ibid., 166]
** Among the Branch Davidians were a Harvard-trained attorney
(Wayne Martin), an electrical engineer who had, until 1992,
taught physics in an Australian high school (Graeme Craddock),
and two nurses. [Reavis]
** Charges against the Branch Davidians of child abuse "were
repeatedly shown to be false." [Reavis, 229]
** BATF tank drivers who circled the compound during the siege,
"mooned the residents and made obscene hand signs." [Reavis,
249]
** Most of the guns at the Davidian compound were purchased as
investments and had never been used. The "armaments that Koresh
and [Paul] Fatta owned had more than doubled in value since the
date of their purchase." [Reavis, 293-294] In point of fact, the
"Davidians had a profitable legal gun business." [Moore, 47]
** It is not, per se, illegal to "stockpile weapons." Texas
Rangers "recovered about 200 guns from the ashes of the Mount
Carmel Center, roughly two per resident. Statewide in Texas, 17
million people own 60 million guns, or about four per resident."
[Wattenberg, 32]
** "The massacre of the Branch Davidians was the greatest
government massacre of civilians on American soil since the
massacre of 300 Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890."
[Moore, 4]
** "I thought I was going to die that day [Feb. 28]. I thought I
was going to get blown away... Put in that situation where
you've got women and children crying and screaming, 'Oh, my God,
please help us, save us, do something! They're shooting at us!
'...You do anything, you pick up anything you can, if your life
is threatened, to defend yourself." -- Kevin Whitecliff before
sentencing. [qtd. in Moore, 141]
** "I don't care who they are, nobody is going to come to my
home, with my babies around, shaking guns around, without a gun
back in their face. That's just the American way." -- David
Koresh [qtd. in Moore, 167-168]
** With all the gunfire, "it is inevitable that BATF agents
injured, and even killed, some of their own." [Moore, 171]
According to Newsweek magazine, a federal source in Waco stated
"there is evidence that supports the theory of friendly fire."
[qtd. in Moore, 171]
** "The FBI strictly controlled its daily press briefings,
limiting the number of questions and punishing reporters who
displeased them by refusing to call on them." According to Time
magazine photographer Shelly Katz, it was the worst suppression
of the press he had seen in 27 years of journalism. [Moore,
235-236]
** "I recognized early on that the government was systematically
poisoning and prejudicing public opinion with a blitz of
inflammatory disinformation to stir up hatred against David
Koresh and to foment a thirst for his blood... " Former Black
Panther Eldridge Cleaver [qtd. in Moore, 238]
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Works cited
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Bradford, R.W. "Mass Murder, American-Style". *Liberty*
[magazine], June 1993
Moore, Carol. *The Davidian Massacre* (Best is to order directly
from Moore; phone (202) 986-1847 for more info; or order from Gun
Owners of America.)
Reavis, Dick J. *The Ashes Of Waco*. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1995. ISBN: 0-648-81132-4
Wattenberg, Daniel. "Gunning for Koresh". *The American
Spectator* [magazine], August 1993
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