TACKLING the TOUGH TOPICS

FACING AMERICANS TODAY! 

April the 19^th

LEXINGTON, WACO, AND

OKLAHOMA CITY

(Lest We Forget!)

Issue # 27 (Newly updated) // Date first published: April 14, 2003

 (Updated: December 6, 2003; March 22, 2004; and January 19, 2006)

Reviewed on April 11-13, 2006 and released for Internet posting on April 14, 2006

Editor: Darryl Eberhart 

 ((NOTE:  All emphasis throughout this newsletter, unless otherwise noted, is by the editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics (TTT)”.  Some issues of my TTT newsletters and my “Examining the Tough Issues (ETI)” newsletters can be read on the following three Internet web sites:

www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net , www.calltodecision.com , and www.libertytothecaptives.net . The last site has a link to the first site.)) 

WARNING: This issue of the TTT newsletter may seriously “disturb” some folks’ “comfort zones”.   However, TRUTH is more important than any of our “comfort zones”.   

((NOTE: This issue of TTT is a “re-do” (with some changes) of TTT #10, dated May 17, 2002.  This further update of January 19, 2006 is for posting on the Internet.)) 

HERE IS A GREAT QUOTE: 

            “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to REPEAT it.”

                        George Santayana (1863-1952; Spanish philosopher & writer)

I. INTRODUCTION 

            Why “re-do” such a lengthy, former issue of TTT?  I am doing so because until JUSTICE is done in regard to the massacre at Waco, Texas in 1993, then there REMAINS the likelihood and danger of such events being REPEATED in the future!  Additionally, it gives me the opportunity to put this “editorial” on compact disk (CD) for posting on the Internet.  Hopefully, it will also serve to REMIND us all that we Americans should NEVER give up our RIGHT to keep and bear [fire] Arms – No! Not under ANY circumstances! 

Editor of TTT asks those who read the first version (TTT #10 – entitled “Lest We Forget”) and/or the earlier updated version (TTT #27 – also entitled “Lest We Forget”) to PLEASE read this new, and hopefully slightly improved, updated version, because we MUST NEVER forget any of these events!   Otherwise, we may find ourselves condemned to repeat the past that we fail to remember!

II. LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (APRIL 19, 1775)

HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING (AND VERY RELEVANT) QUOTES:

                        By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

                        Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,

                        Here once the embattled farmers stood,

                        And FIRED THE SHOT heard round the world.”

                        Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882; U.S. essayist, philosopher & poet) 

            “…The RIGHT of the PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms, shall NOT be infringed.”

            Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

            “The said Constitution shall NEVER be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the PEOPLE of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

            Samuel Adams (1722-1803; American statesman & Revolutionary leader) 

            “No free man shall ever be debarred [Ed. Note: forbidden by law] the use of arms.  The strongest reason for the PEOPLE to retain their RIGHT to keep and bear arms is as a LAST RESORT to protect themselves against TYRANNY IN GOVERNMENT.”

            Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826; 3^rd President of the United States) 

ATTEMPTS AT “GUN CONFISCATION” IGNITED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR! 

            The weeks and months leading up to April 19, 1775 were immensely exciting times in Massachusetts.  The British authorities, who were the “ruling government” of that day, had already done some “gun confiscation” in Boston.  Now reports were coming in to British General Thomas Gage, whose headquarters was in Boston, that American patriots were storing arms and gunpowder in the area between Boston and Concord.  There were also reports reaching General Gage that the patriots had 14 cannons in the town of Concord. 

            General Gage had made the decision to move his “gun confiscation” efforts beyond the city limits of Boston out to the surrounding countryside.  Plans were made to send General Gage’s crack British army troops to confiscate the cannons stored in the town of Concord, and also any gunpowder and musket balls that they might find along the way.  (They also hoped to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams, two of the top patriot leaders, during the “gun confiscation” operation.) 

            On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British troops encountered a small number of patriots from the Lexington, Massachusetts’ area militia.  The advance party of British soldiers ordered the patriots to disperse.  The patriots, realizing that the odds were greatly against them, began to disperse – but obviously not quickly enough.  The British troops opened fire, killing eight of the Lexington “Minutemen”!  Indeed, the “shot had been fired” that was “heard round the world”.  (These men in the militia were called “Minutemen” because they were to be ready to perform their military duties “on a minute’s notice”.) 

((Important Note: The men who served in the militia of the Lexington, Massachusetts’ area had been trained by Jonas Clark, their pastor!)) 

            The British troops continued their march to Concord unhindered.  However, they encountered some serious problems when they started to head back for Boston.  The Minutemen (i.e., the patriots, the men of the militia) from Concord, Lexington, and the surrounding area had raced towards the road that the British troops would have to use to get back to Boston.  These Minutemen were farmers and townsfolk who also happened to be excellent marksmen!  The Minutemen fired with deadly aim from behind trees and stonewalls at the now-terrified British troops.  The British suffered heavy casualties at the hands of these citizen-soldiers as the British troops raced back for the safety of Boston! 

WHAT LESSONS SHOULD WE LEARN FROM LEXINGTON? 

1.  The colonists were indeed “FED UP” with “taxation WITHOUT representation”, the FORCIBLE quartering of British troops in their homes, “general warrants”, and a host of other ABUSES at the hands of the ruling British authorities. However, it was the British military’s attempt at MASSIVE GUN CONFISCATION that provided the SPARK that set off the Revolutionary War!  Yes, it was none other than GOVERNMENT-sponsored “GUN CONTROL” that sparked the American Revolution!  ((QUESTIONS:  WHY is this FACT ignored in many American history books?  Who benefits from this omission?)) 

2.  “Citizen-soldiers” [e.g., the Minutemen] are capable of defeating well-trained and highly disciplined professional military forces! 

3.  “GUN CONTROL” perpetrated on honest citizens STINKS, and should NEVER be tolerated! ((Gun registration leads to gun confiscation which leads to GENOCIDE of people!)) 

((NOTE:  “Gun Control” rarely, if ever, disarms the criminals in society!  Rather, “Gun Control” generally disarms ONLY the good, decent citizens in a society!  (The criminals are always able to get guns.)  We must NEVER FORGET that the civilian populations of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, etc., were DISARMED through “Gun Control” BEFORE GENOCIDES of targeted population groups began!)) 

((Special NOTE: “Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership” (JPFO) offers a great documentary film (VHS or DVD) entitled “Innocents Betrayed” that makes the connection between gun control and a number of 20^th century genocides.  This documentary film is $29.95 postpaid, and can be ordered by making check or money order payable to “JPFO”, and sending it to: JPFO // P.O. Box 270143 // Hartford, WI 53027.  For credit card orders, you can call their toll-free order line at 1-800-869-1884.  For information on JPFO, please call 1-262-673-9745.))

4.  A government that does NOT trust its citizens with guns is a government that CANNOT itself be TRUSTED! 

5.  Our founding fathers felt so strongly about the British authorities’ “Gun Control” efforts that they penned the 2d Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which PROHIBITS government infringement upon the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to keep and bear [fire] arms!  (Those first “Ten Amendments” – the Bill of Rights – are an integral part of the U.S. Constitution!)

III. WACO, TEXAS (APRIL 19, 1993)

HERE IS A GREAT QUOTE: 

            “A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for ANY reason, is a government with a taste for blood and a thirst for power, and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.” – John Salter (retired U.S. Air Force officer) 

((NOTE:  Governments used military tanks against citizens of their own country at BOTH Tienanmen Square in Red China AND at Waco, Texas in the United States of America!)) 

((NOTE: Here is the definition of “Posse Comitatas” as found in “Black’s Law Dictionary”: 

            “A federal law that, with few exceptions, PROHIBITS the Army or Air Force from directly participating in civilian law-enforcement operations, as by making arrests, conducting searches, or seizing evidence.  …The [Posse Comitatas] Act was originally enacted in 1878.  It does not usually apply to members of the Navy, National Guard, or to the Coast Guard.”)) 

HERE ARE SOME MORE INTERESTING (AND VERY RELEVANT) QUOTES ABOUT WACO:

            “Are you gonna come in and kill me?” – Branch Davidian child

            “No, honey…nobody’s gonna come and kill you.” – ATF Special Agent Jim Cavanaugh 

            “…but basically they [Ed. Note: the Branch Davidians] were good people.  I was around them quite a lot.  They were always nice, [and] mannerly.  They minded their own business.  They were never overbearing.  They were always clean and courteous.  I liked them.”

            Jack Harwell, Sheriff of McLennan County (in which Waco is located) 

            “To this day we don’t have a case that we could make against Vernon Howell [i.e., David Koresh] or anyone [at the Branch Davidian Church] for child abuse.”

            Jack Harwell, Sheriff of McLennan County 

            “The [Branch Davidian] children appear to be smart and well-educated; [they are] very sharp children.  They seem to have been very well cared for.”

            Joyce Sparks, caseworker for Child Protective Services,

                        Texas Department of Human Services 

            “I think [David] Koresh was NOT a criminal psychopathic type.”

            Alan A. Stone, Harvard University professor of law and psychiatry

            “…perhaps we need to look at anyone who literally believes in the Book of Revelation [the book of the Apocalypse for Catholics].”

            President Bill Clinton (spoken in the immediate aftermath of the Waco atrocity) 

((NOTE:  Editor of TTT does NOT remember hearing any of those last five quotes in the supposed “free press & media” of the establishment-CONTROLLED mainstream media, i.e., the Dominant Media in the USA!  It sure seems that the CONTROLLED media here in America acted as the “propaganda mouthpiece” for the federal government during the assault on the Branch Davidian CHURCH at Waco, Texas.  One would think that the Dominant Media would have been interested in comments by a case worker for Child Protective Services who had examined the Branch Davidian children, or in the comments by Sheriff Jack Harwell, who had personal knowledge of the Branch Davidians!  One would think so; however, the CONTROLLED media ONCE AGAIN showed that it can NOT be trusted at all to give the American people UNBIASED reporting on key issues or events!))

THE ATTACK ON THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN CHURCH

             On February 28, 1993, approximately 100 federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms [BATF; later known as the ATF; later known as the ATFE] launched an assault on the Branch Davidian Church and living quarters.  ((NOTE: It was NOT a “compound” as the “feds” and the establishment-CONTROLLED media constantly called it.))  During this “initial phase” of the carefully-planned and practiced assault, four BATF agents were killed, and a number wounded.  Six Branch Davidians lost their lives in the initial assault. 

            Although the assault on the Branch Davidian Church and living quarters occurred on February 28^th of 1993, it had been planned since late 1992.  In fact, the BATF had begun then to make plans for executing a “dynamic entry” on the Branch Davidian Church and living quarters.  ((Not only did the BATF and the establishment-CONTROLLED media consistently refer to the church and living quarters as a “compound” during the siege, but they also referred to the storage vault as a “bunker”!))  The BATF agents had done full mock rehearsals in preparation for this assault at an army post in Texas (Fort Hood) for three days – practicing such things as using ladders to get on the roof, making “dynamic entries” through windows, etc. 

            Indeed, the overly confident BATF had made contact with the media the night BEFORE the assault, and had also brought along lots of their own videotape to record this assault on American citizens.  The blank videotape had been marked “Show Time”, since the BATF was hoping to record their expected “quick and easy victory” for posterity (and for Congress)!  You see, dear reader, the BATF was coming up for funding before Congress, and a successful massive assault with “dynamic entry” recorded for American television screens would surely win them some “points” with Congress! 

            Despite being warned that word of their planned assault had leaked out, the BATF went ahead and launched the February 28, 1993 assault by driving two cattle-type cars covered in tarp and filled with BATF agents to the front doors.  As David Koresh opened the door, he and another Branch Davidian were met by a hail of bullets from BATF agents, and were wounded.  One of the first BIG LIES told by federal agents was that the Branch Davidians had set up an ambush for them, and had many heavily armed men standing behind the steel doors who supposedly fired a ton of bullets through the doors at the charging BATF agents.  ((This BIG LIE was portrayed in a made-for-TV movie by a segment of the establishment-CONTROLLED mainstream media.  This was just another example of the mainstream media’s outright collaboration with the government!))  ((NOTE: Great video documentaries such as “Waco – The Rules of Engagement” and “Waco – A New Revelation” CLEARLY show that the bullet holes in the front steel doors were coming from the OUTSIDE, and NOT from the inside!  Both of these outstanding videos can be purchased from “Radio Liberty” by calling their toll-free order line: 800-544-8927.  PLEASE order these videos, examine them for yourselves, and then share them with others if you think they are as important as editor of TTT does.  These two videos show a clear pattern of collaboration between the “feds” and the CONTROLLED media in LIES & COVER-UPS concerning the assault at Waco in 1993.))  Fortunately for the BATF, the front steel doors, along with the video footage taken from the 3 or 4 cameras the BATF had pointed at the front steel doors, later conveniently (for the BATF) DISAPPEARED! 

            The evidence clearly shows that the BATF never really intended to do a peaceful “knock on the door and serve a search warrant”, but rather to carry out a massive paramilitary assault with “dynamic entry” against American citizens!  Had the BATF wanted to arrest David Koresh, it could have done so easily at any time it wanted since David Koresh jogged unarmed and by himself along the road leading into Mount Carmel.  Additionally, David Koresh had offered to LET the BATF come out to inspect the Branch Davidian buildings, but the BATF was NOT at all interested in doing a peaceful inspection of the buildings.  No – the BATF wanted a “Show Time”-type, large-scale paramilitary assault on American citizens for maximum publicity (i.e., to show how well-trained and skilled they are in executing “dynamic entry” and quick seizure of a building or group of buildings)! 

            After the initial “exchange” of gunfire, the approximately 100 BATF agents, wearing body armor and helmets, and well-armed (with some carrying large shields) RETREATED, LEAVING their wounded BEHIND!  ((Editor of TTT has seen film footage of the RETREAT, and one has great difficulty seeing any return fire from the Davidians hitting around the retreating BATF agents.  Yet the BATF agents can be seen furiously laying down fire on the doors and windows of the Davidian buildings, which the BATF agents knew contained many women, children, and elderly folks!  And many of these Branch Davidians were UNARMED!  By the way, the BATF agents used both semi-automatic pistols and “assault rifles” in their shootout with the Branch Davidians!)) 

            The BATF requested a “cease fire” so that they could retrieve their wounded, and the Branch Davidians mercifully agreed (or more BATF agents might have died)!  ((One has to wonder IF the BATF would have agreed to a “cease fire” HAD the “shoe been on the other foot” – i.e., if the Branch Davidians had wanted to retrieve their wounded from an open area!!!)) 

            On March 1, 1993 the BATF handed control for the siege over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  The demonization of David Koresh as “the evil messiah” and of the Branch Davidians as a bunch of “cultists” was now reaching FEVERISH LEVELS in the CONTROLLED media, FED by constant input from the “Feds”.  ((Oh how the CONTROLLED media loves to play the “prostitute” for the government, always COLLABORATING in LIES, DECEPTION, AND COVER-UPS (on such issues as Agent Orange, the prisoners-of-war & missing in action (POW/MIA) tragedy, and Gulf War Illness)!))  Allegations of sexual and physical abuse of the Branch Davidian children abounded in the press and mainstream TV, yet no such abuse was ever proven in a court of law!  Additionally, the Texas Child Protective Services found NO evidence whatsoever of child abuse by the Branch Davidians! ((Please read again the earlier quote by Joyce Sparks, a case worker for Child Protective Services.)) 

            At least three FBI sniper team positions were set up surrounding the Mount Carmel Center.  A major “psychological warfare” assault was then initiated against the Branch Davidians by the “Feds”.  This included cutting off both water and electricity; playing at night LOUD music and audiotapes of “rabbits being slaughtered”; and shining BRIGHT SEARCH LIGHTS on the buildings during the night.  Additionally, at least ten members of Squadron B, Combat Applications Group (i.e., “Delta Force”) were brought in to supposedly “advise” the FBI.  ((These military forces, including combat engineering vehicles, would later be used in the “final assault” on the Branch Davidians (including women, children, and elderly) on April 19, 1993.)) 

            FALSELY claiming that negotiations had broken down, the FBI, using military troops and military vehicles, began the “final assault” on the Branch Davidians at 5:55 A.M. on April 19, ending a 51-day siege.  The Combat Engineering Vehicles (CEVs – converted M-60 tanks) began the “final assault” by inserting a whole lot of a mixture of CS gas and methylene chloride through their booms into the buildings.  This mixture is highly flammable, and produces hydrogen cyanide when burned!  The CEVs also knocked down entire walls of some of the buildings.  The high levels of dried CS gas made these buildings a tinderbox!  The holes which had been poked in the buildings ensured that if a fire did break out, it would burn furiously like a vented potbellied stove.  Indeed, a MONTROUS fire did break out!  79 Branch Davidians, including 17 LITTLE CHILDREN, lost their lives in the INFERNO that resulted from this “final assault”!  ((By the way, the video film evidence CLEARLY shows that a shaped-charge explosive had been placed and detonated over the ceiling area of the concrete storage vault into which women and children had fled!  Who at Waco, except for “Delta Force”, had the expertise for such a “job”?)) 

            The FBI admitted during Congressional Hearings that it had NO “fire plan”!  The FBI did NOT call for fire trucks until 30 minutes AFTER the fire had started; then they held the fire trucks back!  (NOTE: There were strong winds that day!) 

            Later, the FBI DESTROYED the crime scene – this included moving vehicles (which destroyed valuable trajectory evidence).  The FBI INTERFERED with the coroner’s efforts, and seized his videotape (which they NEVER returned despite repeated requests)!  Somehow, the FBI “ALLOWED” the electricity to be cut off to the two vans which held the remains of the Branch Davidians who had perished in the “final assault”.  Item after item of evidence, including the steel front doors and on-scene activity logs, kept “DISAPPEARING”!

((All this sure has the “smell” of a massive cover-up!!!!!!!)) 

            CEVs, Bradley fighting vehicles, tanks, helicopters, and military troops (“Delta Force”) were used at Waco, Texas against American citizens – against women, little children, and elderly!  What ever happened to Posse Comitatas?  And how could Congress, after several hearings and lots of evidence to the CONTRARY, basically exonerate the BATF and the FBI, giving them only a very mild “slap on the wrist” by saying that “some mistakes were made”?  ((The Congressional Hearings on the Waco tragedy remind editor of TTT of the “stellar” findings of the Warren Commission, which told us that a lone sniper (i.e., Oswald) killed JFK, along with their infamous “magic-bullet” theory!)) ((NOTE:  If you have not seen Oliver Stone’s film “JFK, the Director’s Cut”, then you really should rent or purchase a copy of it.  It totally DISCREDITS the Warren Commission’s “lone assassin” conclusion!))

LIES & MORE LIES BY THE “FEDS” ((“Space” limits how many I can list.))

            Here are just a FEW of the biggest “WHOPPERS” (i.e., colossal LIES) told by the “Feds” (i.e., the BATF and the FBI) during and immediately after the Waco tragedy of 1993: 

LIE #1 – “The Branch Davidians laid an ambush for the BATF.” 

            This LIE was examined earlier in the newsletter.  Video footage of bullet holes in the front steel doors (before the doors DISAPPEARED) showed CLEARLY that the bullets were coming from the OUTSIDE into the building, and were NOT coming OUT from the inside!  Had a massive “ambush” been laid for the BATF as the Feds maintained, the BATF would have suffered FAR GREATER casualties than they did during that “initial assault” on the Branch Davidian CHURCH! 

LIE #2 – “We would not use dosages [of the CS gas] that would harm those children.” 

FBI “spokesman” Bob Ricks speaking about the CS gas that the Feds had pumped for six hours into the Branch Davidian buildings, including for two hours into the small storage vault into which women and little children had fled! 

            Initial reports referred to “tear gas” being used; however, it was NOT “tear gas”.  It was CS gas (which is much more potent; and is potentially lethal in tight quarters)!  It is interesting to note that the American military is forbidden to use CS gas on enemy soldiers; however, that did NOT stop the Feds from using CS gas on American citizens, which included women, children, and elderly!  Benjamin Garrett, executive director of the Chemical & Biological Arms Control Institute in Alexandria, Virginia stated: “[The CS gas] would have panicked the children.  Their eyes would have involuntarily shut.  Their skin would have been burning.  They would have been gasping for air and coughing wildly.  Eventually, they would have been overcome with vomiting in a final hell.” 

LIE #3 – “We [i.e., the Feds] did not use pyrotechnic devices.” 

            The Feds frequently repeated this LIE.  Yet at least four (4) “pyrotechnic devices” were found at the “points of origin” for the fire (this included two “Mark”-651 CS projectiles that burn for 25-30 seconds).  Additionally, six (6) “flash-bang devices” were found at two of the “points of origin” for the fire! 

LIE #4 – “The Branch Davidians committed ‘mass suicide’.” 

            A former FBI forensic Crime Scene Analyst stated: “The majority of the people – the bodies that I saw – were clear-cut HOMICIDE victims.”  The Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) film shows two “Delta Force” personnel firing automatic weapons fire into the burning dining room area of the one Branch Davidian building.  At least fifteen (15) people were found SHOT in this area! 

LIE #5 – “The Branch Davidians set the fires.”  ((See also LIE #3)) 

            Branch Davidian survivors said that neither they nor any of the other Branch Davidians set the fires. 

LIE #6 – “We [the FBI] did NOT fire [shots].”  ((FBI agent stating that the Feds had NOT fired on the Branch Davidians during the “final assault” on April 19, 1993.)) 

            Yet FBI special agent Charles Riley, in his April 19^th “after-action report”, stated that he had heard SHOTS from [FBI] sniper position #1 [which was headed by FBI special agent Lon T. Horiuchi of the Blue Sniper team].  Additionally, four (4) expended shell casings were found at sniper position #1! 

LIE #7 – “We did NOT notify the news media in ADVANCE.” ((Said by BATF agent)) 

            In fact, the BATF HAD NOTIFIED the news media the night BEFORE the assault! 

LIE #8 – “We’re a law enforcement agency.  We don’t fire through walls indiscriminately at people.  We have to have a target.” ((Said by BATF agent)) ((See LIE #1)) 

            Pictures of the front steel doors and the walls surrounding the doors and the windows close by tell a DIFFERENT story! 

LIE #9 – The Feds said that the thermal “signatures” on the Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) film ((that other FLIR experts said was clearly automatic-weapons fire)) were “sun reflections”.  ((This lie by the Feds was ABSURD & LUDICROUS!)) 

            The fact is that the FLIR film CLEARLY shows automatic-weapons fire (approximately ten (10) “flashes”, i.e., SHOTS, per second)! 

LIE #10 – Initially, the Feds said that the helicopters did NOT fire upon the Branch Davidians.        

   They LIED!

LIE #11 – When asked at a press conference if the Feds were using psychological warfare such as loud music, bright [search] lights at night, etc., on the Branch Davidians, FBI agent Bob Ricks stated: “Chances are minimal of [us] doing that type of activity.” 

LIE #12 – The Feds constantly maintained that military personnel were NOT being used in the Branch Davidian areas. 

            The Feds LIED!  Both Gene Cullen (Senior Case Officer, Special Operations Group, CIA) and Steven Barry (Sergeant First Class, Retired, U.S. Army Special Forces) have stated that over ten (10) military personnel from B Squadron, Combat Applications Group (i.e., “Delta Force”) WERE at Waco, Texas in April of 1993 for the “final assault” on the Branch Davidians.  ((Again, what ever happened to Posse Comitatas?)) 

LIE #13 – In response to “why” they [the Feds] had launched their “final assault” on the Branch Davidians, the Feds said that the “negotiations had reached an impasse”.  Later, Janet Reno (Attorney General at that time) said the final assault was launched because the Feds were getting “fatigued” with the siege and standoff.

            The facts are that the negotiations had NOT broken down!

((NOTE:  There were other LIES; however, the above LIES should be sufficient to show a consistent PATTERN of Federal agents TELLING LIES & MORE LIES!)) 

SOME FINAL THOUGHTS: 

            On April 19, 1993 the “final assault” by Federal agents and military troops on the Branch Davidians (who were American citizens and human beings created in God’s image) resulted in the deaths of seventy-nine (79) men, women, and children.  Many of the children were LITTLE children! 

            During the 51-day siege, Federal agents “distinguished themselves” by making “obscene finger gestures” to the Branch Davidian women and children watching from the windows of the Davidian buildings, and by dropping their drawers and baring their buttocks to the same women and children.  Yes sir, now that’s some real “PROFESSIONALISM”! 

            The FBI Director at the time of the Waco tragedy in April 1993 was Judge William Sessions.  Sessions had wanted to fly to Waco, Texas to conduct face-to-face negotiations with the Branch Davidians; however, the Justice Department REFUSED to let him go!  WHY??? 

            The FBI gave the Branch Davidians videotapes so that they could make some “home videos” of themselves during the siege.  Yet the FBI REFUSED to release these “home videos” of the Branch Davidians during the siege (which they had gotten back from the Davidians) because the FBI feared those videos would win sympathy for the Branch Davidians! ((These home videos showed the Davidians to be nice, NORMAL people.)) 

            Congressional Hearings in 1995 about the Waco tragedy of April 1993 TOTALLY WHITEWASHED Federal wrongdoing, LIES, and COVER-UPS!  ((Surprise! - Just like the Warren Commission’s WHITEWASH of the JFK assassination!  How does the expression go?  “How can you tell when a politician is telling lies?”  Answer: His lips are moving.)) 

WHAT LESSONS SHOULD WE LEARN FROM THE WACO TRAGEDY? 

1.  It is okay to LIE if you are a federal agent, to include telling LIES to the U.S. Congress. 

2.  It is okay to murder innocent American citizens – human beings created in God’s image, including women and little children, if you are a federal agent. 

3.  It is okay to destroy a crime scene PREMATURELY if you are a federal agent. 

4.  The BATF/FBI operation at Waco, Texas in 1993 was essentially a “GUN CONTROL” operation conducted against peaceful American citizens that resulted in the deaths of four BATF agents and 86 Branch Davidians (six perished during the February 28^th “initial assault”; one perished during the siege; and 79 perished during the “final assault” on April 19^th). 

5.  The federal government’s propensity for WHITEWASHING its own wrongdoings appears to be almost unlimited! (Lying, deceit, & corruption seem to be the norm in Washington, D.C.)  

6.  It is okay for the Feds to use military troops and military combat vehicles and aircraft against the American people (including women and children) in total DISREGARD of Posse Comitatas and in total DISREGARD of the norms of decent, civilized behavior! 

7.  It is okay for the Feds to use CS gas (in potentially lethal doses) on the American people, including on women and children in a small-enclosed area. 

8.  It is okay for the Feds to do “dynamic entry” on a CHURCH building full of women, children, and elderly! 

9.  It is okay for the Feds to assault various segments of the American civilian population as long as they first demonize their victims as “cultists”, or as being “different”! 

IV. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA (APRIL 19, 1995)

HERE IS AN INTERESTING (AND VERY RELEVANT) QUOTE: 

            “I am concerned that vital evidence will soon be destroyed with the pending demolition of the [Murrah] Federal Building in Oklahoma City.  From all the evidence I have seen in the published material, I can say with a high level of confidence that the damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could NOT possibly have been attained from the single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced column bases.  The total incompatibility with a single truck bomb lies in the fact that some of the columns collapsed that should NOT have collapsed or some of the columns are still standing that should have collapsed and did NOT.

            It is ABSURD to hold that the truck bomb blast was powerful enough to take down large, steel-reinforced concrete columns, and still leave sheet rock, furring strips, and other light, decorative materials virtually unfazed.”

            Benton K. Partin, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired)

((Ed. Note: Retired USAF Brigadier General Partin is a “munitions expert” par excellence.)) 

THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING OF APRIL 19, 1995 

            At 9:02 A.M. on April 19, 1995 the A.P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed, resulting in the deaths of 169 people, including 17 children.  The bombing occurred exactly 24 months to the day after the “final assault” had been launched on the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas! 

            The Feds said that a SINGLE “bomber”, named Timothy [“Lee Harvey Oswald”] McVeigh, detonated a SINGLE ammonium nitrate bomb in a Ryder truck parked in the street in front of the Murrah Federal Building. 

            However, MULTIPLE witnesses stated that they saw MULTIPLE “bombers”, including at least TWO individuals running away from the Ryder truck (one of whom appeared to be Middle Eastern in appearance)!  MULTIPLE witnesses also reported hearing at least TWO explosions.  Also, TWO different seismology sites (the University of Oklahoma and the Kirkpatrick Center in the Oklahoma Omniplex) both had seismology graphs showing TWO explosions! 

            Additionally, at least TWO local Oklahoma City TV stations (“Channel 9, KWTV” and NewsChannel 4) reported that at least TWO unexploded bombs had been found in, and had been removed from, the Murrah Federal Building! 

((While there may be some debate over the seismology graphs, there can be NO serious debate about the FACT that demolition charges were placed on the columns and header beam inside of  the Murrah Federal Building.  Girders pointed OUTWARD – a physical IMPOSSIBILITY if only a truck bomb was used!  Also, if only a truck bomb was used (OUTSIDE of the building), how does one explain columns closer to the truck bomb STILL STANDING, while columns farther away from the truck bomb were brought down by the explosion?)) 

            SEVERAL witnesses reported that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) had warned its agents NOT to come in for work in the Murrah Federal Building on the morning of April 19^th!  ((NOTE:  This warning was NOT passed on to other American citizens in the Murrah Federal Building!)) 

            Later on, the Feds ignored pleas made by such men as Brigadier General Partin NOT to destroy the crime scene by demolishing the Murrah Federal Building BEFORE the evidence “could be independently evaluated by a collection of demolition experts from the private sector”.  The “evidence” was hauled off and buried underground (protected by armed guards)! 

SOME OTHER INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING 

1.  Jayna Davis of Oklahoma City NewsChannel 4 went to the FBI in Oklahoma City with all her material on the Oklahoma City bombing; the FBI did NOT even want it! 

2.  Hoppy Heidelberg, an outstanding citizen, tried to do his duty on the Federal Grand Jury – asking a lot questions – and was DISMISSED!  He later received a visit from FBI agents brandishing firearms who tried to intimidate him!  ((Just like the hundreds of witnesses the FBI told that they didn’t see a missile streaking toward TWA Flight 800!)) 

3.  Martin Keating, brother of Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, wrote a book entitled The Final Jihad in which a “Thomas McVey” was the main character who was involved in bombing a federal building!  Most interestingly, Martin Keating wrote this book two years BEFORE the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City!!  ((Just coincidence, eh??)) 

4.  The Feds seized at least 12 surveillance camera tapes that would clearly have shown if Timothy McVeigh had indeed been the “lone bomber”.  ((Or might these tapes have shown who “John Doe #2” was?))  The Feds could have used these tapes at Timothy McVeigh’s trial, but they chose NOT to use them!  WHY?  The FBI has refused to release those tapes, citing “national security”!  Again, WHY? 

5.  FBI counter-terrorism expert Danny Colson checked into an Oklahoma City hotel NINE HOURS BEFORE the Oklahoma City bombing.  Interesting!  ((Did he know something the rest of us were NOT privy to?)) 

6.  David Schippers, Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearing of Bill Clinton, stated in an interview with syndicated radio & TV talk show host Alex Jones that: 

            a. The same team involved in the 9-11 attacks was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.

            b. FBI agents tried to make witnesses who saw a Middle Eastern guy [with Timothy McVeigh] say that it was Terry Nichols ((Ed. Note: “Shades” of TWA Flight 800)).

            c. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, dozens of Middle Eastern men were detained, including former [Iraqi] Republican Guard officers who had tried to flee the USA; however, the Clinton Administration DEMANDED their release! 

7.  Timothy McVeigh, who supposedly pulled off the bombing all by himself, made his getaway in an unregistered vehicle with no license plate, and was pulled over for speeding in a restricted speed zone.  He had a pistol on the front seat, yet made NO attempt to use it when the trooper approached his vehicle!  Simply amazing! 

8.  What happened to the unexploded bombs that the BATF removed from the Federal Building? 

9.  The records on the 1993 Waco tragedy were stored, interestingly, in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and were supposedly “totally destroyed” in the bombing! 

WHAT LESSONS SHOULD WE LEARN FROM THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING? 

1.  It is okay to DESTROY a crime scene PREMATURELY if you are a federal agent (just like at Waco, Texas)! 

2.  It is okay to INTIMIDATE witnesses, or try to get witnesses to change their testimony to fit the government’s version of an event, if you are a federal agent! ((Just like TWA Flight 800!)) 

3.  The Feds are capable of IGNORING a ton of evidence that contradicts their version of an event!  ((Just like at Waco; and just like with TWA Flight 800!)) 

V.  CONCLUSIONS & SUMMARY 

            We have seen a major “militarization” of law enforcement in America over the past several decades.  We also see increasing numbers of ARMED federal agents from a myriad of federal agencies (such as ATFE, FBI, IRS, etc.) running around the country enforcing a myriad of laws and regulations.  We see an increase in the number of SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) teams, and an ever greater willingness on the part of government to use these SWAT teams in serving warrants and other “routine” police duties, as well as the all-too-frequent DYNAMIC ENTRIES of the homes of American citizens!  ((This increased use of SWAT teams has resulted NOT ONLY in the loss of innocent American citizens’ lives, BUT ALSO of the lives of SWAT team members who are killed by their fellow SWAT team members!)) 

            We have seen a willingness to use U.S. military personnel and equipment against American citizens, such as occurred during the assault on the Church at Waco, Texas in 1993. 

            Our founding fathers dreaded STANDING ARMIES in peacetime, and they abhorred the CONSOLIDATION of police powers at the federal level.  Our founding fathers “designed” our form of government (i.e., a constitutional Republic) so that the “federal government” would be STRICTLY LIMITED by the “chains” of the U.S. Constitution, and their intent was that whatsoever could be done at the LOCAL level (to include policing) WOULD be done at the LOCAL level! 

            And what ever happened to the 4^th Amendment in the “Bill of Rights” (an integral part of the U.S. Constitution) that reads:

            “The right of the people to be SECURE in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against UNREASONALBE searches and seizures, shall NOT be violated, and NO Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” 

            These SWAT team “assaults” on citizens’ homes in the wee hours of the morning MUST come to an end!  Far too frequently these paramilitary-style “dynamic entries” result in the LOSS of innocent lives, such as the spouse or children of the “targeted” individual!  The VAST MAJORITY of these SWAT team assaults on homes are TOTALLY UNNECESSARY, since the “targeted” individual could be arrested at some place OTHER THAN his home. 

            Let’s once again consider retired Air Force officer John Salter’s quote:

            “A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for ANY reason, is a government with a taste for blood and a thirst for power, and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.” 

Well, are we Americans going to “smartly rebuke” government ABUSE of power, or are we going to blindly “obey in deadly fear” ABUSIVE government?  Are we Americans going to CONTINUE to accept government WHITEWASHES of their ABUSES of power, such as occurred at Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho (where an FBI sniper blew the face off a mother holding her baby)?  Are we Americans going to CONTINUE to get our “news” from the establishment-CONTROLLED mainstream media (such as ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and NBC) which ALMOST ALWAYS collaborates with and assists the “government” in its massive COVER-UPS of the truth on such important issues as the JFK assassination, the prisoners-of-war/missing-in-action betrayal, Agent Orange, Gulf War Illness, the Waco tragedy, the Oklahoma City bombing, etc.?  Or are we Americans going to say, “Enough is enough already!”?  And then, are we Americans going to return to an active involvement in the serious issues of our day, as our founding fathers did in their day?  Will we Americans get seriously informed by doing some VERY SERIOUS INVESTIGATION of the key issues of our day, and then when we get informed, will we MAKE A SERIOUS EFFORT to inform others? 

            I took the time to once again “re-do” the previously-written TTT #10 from May of 2002 because I’m getting a just a little bit tired of being LIED to consistently by my “government” and the CONTROLLED media!  I am tired of the LIES, DECEPTION, COVER-UPS, PROPAGANDA, BRAINWASHING, CONDITIONING, and WHITEWASHES that occur whenever the “government” investigates “itself”!  I am also tired of having federal agents escape any punishment at all when they MURDER American citizens, such as occurred at Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho!  ((Having a federal “badge” does NOT, and should NOT, exempt anybody from “doing the time” if they “do the crime”.)) 

            By the way, an Idaho Grand Jury tried to bring an FBI agent (i.e., sniper Lon Horiuchi) to trial for the MURDER of Vicky Weaver, whose face he blew off while she was holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.  The Justice Department REFUSED to let Horiuchi be tried!  The message that that refusal sends to this editor is that “federal agents can commit whatever CRIME (including MURDER) they want in the ‘performance of their duties’ and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING can be done to them in a court of law”!

            America is dying!  Our freedoms and Rights are under CONSTANT ATTACK!  Government’s size and power is growing EXPONENTIALLY!  Our own government openly talks about FORCIBLY inoculating Americans, and even HERDING us into “relocation centers” for our own good in case of terrorist attacks using biological agents or chemicals.  And the government keeps trying to DISARM the American people through “Gun Control”!  We Americans are all in grave danger.  We owe it to our children and our grandchildren to get INFORMED quickly, and to start INFORMING others quickly.  To fail to do so will ensure our own “national suicide”!  And that brings us to the final section of this newsletter: 

VI.  WHAT CAN WE DO? 

1.  If you find the material in this newsletter important, PLEASE make as MANY COPIES of it as you can possibly afford to make, and give them to your friends, relatives, and neighbors. 

2.  Turn OFF the so-called “news” on ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and NBC!  The mainstream media is tightly CONTROLLED by those who hate America, her values, and her history.  

3.  PLEASE purchase the videos “Waco – The Rules of Engagement” and “Waco – A New Revelation” from “Radio Liberty” by calling their toll-free order line: 800-544-8927.   

4. Purchase some good books that tell the facts that the establishment-CONTROLLED mainstream media often keeps from the American people.  Here are some:                      

a.) The Medusa File by Lieutenant Colonel Craig Roberts (deals with “government secrets” you are not supposed to know about; covers the period from 1940 through 1996) ((if you can only afford one book that “Radio Liberty” offers, editor of TTT recommends you get this one)); 

b.) The Brotherhood of Darkness by Dr. Stanley Monteith (an exposé of secret societies); 

c.) None Dare Call it Treason by John Stormer (a compilation of facts from hundreds of Congressional investigations of communism and its infiltration into many aspects of our society); 

d.) Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson (deals with some journalists in America who had major stories SUPPRESSED by “those above them” – debunks the myth of a “free press”); 

e.) The Planned Destruction of America by Dr. James W. Wardner (deals with the plans made many years ago to destroy our Republic).

((All the above books are available from “Radio Liberty”.  You can get information on prices and S&H by checking out their web site: www.radioliberty.com , or you can call toll-free: 800-544-8927.  Their fax is: 831-464-8427.   Or, you can write them at: Radio Liberty // P.O. Box 969 // Soquel, CA 95073.    ((Note: “Radio Liberty” has a TON of informative books, videotapes, and audiotape sets.  They also have “information packets of books & tapes” at greatly discounted prices.  See their web site, or ask them to send you one of their catalogs.)) 

f.) Operation Vampire Killer 2000 (abbreviated OVK2000): It is $11 postpaid. Make postal money order payable to “Aid & Abet”, and send it to: Aid & Abet Police & Military Newsletter // HC 11, Box 357 // Kamiah, Idaho 83536.  ((This book deals with the globalist rich elite’s plans to end America’s national sovereignty, and to bring in a New World Order.  The book is in 8 ½” X 11” format; and is profusely illustrated with drawings. Bulk prices are available: call 208-935-7852, or Fax 208-935-7854.))