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So who says that
Clinton is
The
Murder of Waco?
Only the Brave because they
know that Bill Clinton cut the children and the women to peices and then set
them on fire. The Brave fear no man so why should they fear the
sub-man ?
I have been asked for the
sources of my information here are some of them. To this list you could add the
Holy Bible.
Andrew
Sources of Information
(also see Bibliography) In assembling the Waco Holocaust
Electronic Museum, the following information sources were consulted. A specific
listing of these and other applicable materials can be found in the Bibliography.
- US Government Reports
Veracity of US Government Reports
The US Department of Justice
and the FBI have a track record of destroying, fabricating, and altering
evidence. See one such example described by FBI explosives expert Dr. Frederick Whitehurst
during his direct testimony in the World Trade Center bombing case. The US
Government reports concerning the Waco Holocaust are examined critically,
but fairly.
- Autopsy Reports
- Autopsy Reports from the
Justice of the Peace in McLellan County, Texas, in June and July, 1995.
Autopsies were originally obtained by Waco Remembrance, from which the
Museum project grew.
Veracity of Autopsy Reports
The people
performing the autopsies had no discernible reason to exaggerate the degree
of decomposition, dismemberment, and incineration of the corpses. The Museum
accepts the descriptions of the corpses as accurate, but does not
necessarily accept evaluations made by the autopsists, and will examine
those evaluations in light of the evidence as a whole.
- Autopsy Photographs and Crime Scene Photographs
- Autopsy, crime scene, and a number of other photographs were donated
to the Museum by unofficial sources.
Veracity of Autopsy Photographs and Crime Scene
Photographs
Secret police and military intelligence
organizations employ disinformation specialists whose mission is to guard
the secrets of the agency. To achieve this, disinformation is leaked through
unofficial sources with intent to mislead the recipient. The disinformation
contained in the false leaks is often mixed with true information to give
credibility to the package as a whole. Thus information from unofficial
sources can be almost as unreliable as information from official sources.
All sources of information must be reviewed critically. Internal
inconsistencies are the most damning, of course. Corroboration from several
sources is not always confirmation.
The Museum has relied primarily on the Autopsy Reports for information on
the condition of the remains of the Branch Davidians. Most of the autopsy
photos bear close resemblance to the remains described in the reports. In
those cases, the autopsy photos have been used to supplement the Autopsy
Reports. In a few cases, the autopsy photographs are not consistent with the
Autopsy Reports. In those cases, the official Autopsy Reports alone have
been relied upon, and the photographs are regarded as problematic.
The veracity of the crime scene photos are evaluated in the appropriate
exhibit.
Many photos were taken at the crime scene by the FBI, the ATF, and the
Texas Rangers. Many photos and x-rays were taken in the autopsy rooms. The
Museum is currently in the process of requesting both crime scene and
autopsy photos from official sources.
- Trial Transcripts
- Transcript of the
trial of surviving Branch Davidians for the murder of ATF agents,
held in San Antonio in 1994 (US v. Branch et. al., Case No.
W-93-CR-046). Turn to Bibliography for more information.
- Transcript of the World Trade Center bombing trial; testimony of FBI
explosives expert Dr.
Frederic Whitehurst. (US v. Rahman, Case No. 93-CR-0181).)
Completeness of Branch Davidian Trial Transcript
At least one
segment of 1994 San Antonio trial of the Branch Davidians is missing from
the official transcript. That section is Judge Walter Smith's instructions
to the jury regarding the right to self defense when faced with the threat
of death or serious bodily harm at the hands of police forces.
Judge Smith's instructions were made available to those who attended the
trial, and appear in Blind
Justice by Ken Fawcett and The Waco Whitewash by
Jack DeVault. The Museum relies on those books for the judge's instructions.
Also missing from the trial transcript is the complete printed version of
the video-recorded deposition of government witness Marjorie Thomas,
allegedly a former Branch Davidian.
- Trial Eyewitnesses to the 1994 San Antonio trial of the Branch
Davidians
- Contemporaneous News Coverage:
- TV footage, broadcast during the events, and captured by citizens on
VCR recorders.
- TV feature shows
- Text and pictures appearing in newspapers and news magazines
Veracity of Contemporaneous News Coverage
As pointed out by John R. MacArthur in his book Second Front: Censorship and
Propaganda in the Gulf War, the news services operate as a conduit
for government (Pentagon) information. In nationally and internationally
significant stories where the government is a major player, news services
rarely conduct independent, vigorous research to verify claims made by
government officials.
Mr. MacArthur's observations were borne out by the news coverage of the
Waco Holocaust. Original, independent, and vigorous research was rarely
attempted. The "news" was what the government said it was, even
when the official stories conflicted with each other.
Reporters may make mistakes when conducting their own independent
investigation of events in real time. They are, however, capable of
faithfully reproducing government press statements. For this reason, the
Museum considers that contemporaneous news reports concerning the Waco
Holocaust are a reliable record of contemporaneous government
pronouncements.
- Ken Fawcett, Waco Researcher and Analyst
Ken Fawcett, a satellite engineer in Royse City, Texas was scanning
commercial and government satellite TV transmissions on March 2, 1993. He
stumbled on a "refeed" of the raw video footage from the ATF raid
of the Mt. Carmel Center on February 28. From watching the raw footage, Mr.
Fawcett realized that the TV coverage of the event had been misleading and
that highly edited versions of that footage had been shown the American
public. Throughout the siege, Mr. Fawcett recorded hundreds of hours of
footage and distributed much of it to people across the US.
- American Justice Federation Videos
These videos, produced by the American Justice Federation, rely in large
part upon publicly broadcast TV and video footage. Unfortunately, they are
no longer available.
Veracity of American Justice Federation
Videos
In June, 1993 attorney Linda D. Thompson of the American
Justice Federation (AJF) in Indianapolis, Indiana produced a video called
Waco, the Big Lie. That video showed TV footage of a tank with flame
shooting from the barrel, backing out of the Mt. Carmel Center building just
before the fire erupted. The video was distributed widely and provided a
focus for public outrage over the Waco Holocaust.
Waco, the Big Lie also contained footage which showed a man
dressed in black resting on a second story roof watching other sections of
the Mt. Carmel Center burn. After staying there for a while, the man jumped
from the roof, landing gracefully on his feet from a height of about 14
feet. After landing, the man casually walked over to the FBI encampment,
taking off what appears to be a fire hood. Such behavior from a Bible
student would be remarkable--few people can jump from such a height and land
on their feet. Nor did the man show any concern about the people who were
allegedly still alive, trapped inside the burning building. All objective
signs point to this man being a commando. Indeed, Mrs. Thompson charged that
the man was a US government agent.
Some time after the video was distributed, there arose a charge that Mrs.
Thompson had unfairly edited the film footage. Additional video footage
surfaced, which, it was claimed, showed the flame at the end of the barrel
was really construction debris and not flame at all. This footage was touted
as the pieces the AJ F had edited from the original broadcast. Linda
Thompson answered the charges in a follow-up video, Waco, the Big Lie
Continues. A surviving Branch Davidian, Renos Aavram, now a federal
prisoner, claimed it was he who had jumped off the roof. (See below:
Veracity of Branch Davidian Reports).
Damage control is the public relations art of putting the best spin on a
public relations disaster. A flame-throwing tank was captured by TV cameras
on April 19, backing out of the residence. Flame is seen coming from the
barrel. The house burns down, and scores of people die, including 24
children. A man who looks and acts like a commando is seen leaving the
burning building and casually walking over to the FBI encampment. This is a
public relations disaster.
But if it could be shown that the fire was caused by negligence--perhaps
by tipping over Coleman lanterns, or by unexpected combustion of the C/S gas
used on the final day--the public relations fallout is easier to control.
Negligence, rather than intent, puts a different spin on the event.
Therefore, it was necessary to discredit the footage in Waco, The Big
Lie.
In researching the issue of the veracity of the American Justice
Federation videos, Waco Remembrance coordinator Carol A. Valentine talked to
Ken Fawcett of Royse City, Texas (see above).
Mr. Fawcett had also captured images of the tank backing out of the Mt.
Carmel Center. The footage Mr. Fawcett captured was the same as the footage
Mrs. Thompson showed in Waco, The Big Lie. That is, the footage of
the "construction debris" did not appear in Mr. Fawcett's
contemporaneously-captured video, indicating that the later
"construction debris" footage was a hoax.
Ken Fawcett told Waco Remembrance, "Linda Thompson did not edit
anything from that footage."
Waco Remembrance also spoke to Linda Thompson about the footage.
"The Johnny-come-lately footage is bogus," says Linda. "It
was digitized footage. My original footage shown was uncut, unaltered analog
footage. The 'construction debris' footage is just as bogus as the phony
picture of the goat-boy in National Inquirer," said Mrs. Thompson.
It must be remembered that Mrs. Thompson's videos showed the US military
in a bad light. The videos were especially hard on the PR image of the
commandos of the Special Operations Forces (SOF). It was obviously in the
interests of the US military to debunk the footage shown in Waco, the Big
Lie.
Coincidentally, the charge that Mrs. Thompson edited the
"construction debris" out of the footage was publicized by Soldier
of Fortune (SOF) magazine, a magazine with close ties to Special Operations
Forces (SOF). Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Special Operation's Delta
force, was closely associated with Soldier of Fortune, and authored the
magazine's first article on the February 28 ATF raid in Waco. It was the
black helicopters from the Special Operations helicopter unit which strafed
the women's and children's living quarters at Mt. Carmel on the day of the
raid.
Soldier of Fortune, a magazine which orbits around the activities of
Special Ops mercenaries around the world, issued a number of other attacks
on Mrs. Thompson's credibility which were not based on fact. For example,
after the Waco videos were distributed, the American Justice Federation
produced "America Under Siege" which exposed the activities of
Special Ops forces here in the US. This video contained much footage of the
black helicopters of the Special Ops aviation unit. Mrs. Thompson was
presented as a paranoid by Soldier of Fortune magazine and others who said
black helicopters did not exist. The magazine made this claim even though
black Special Ops helicopters took part in the siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho
and were photographed there months before the Waco siege (see photo from Time, July 24, 1995).
Since the distribution of the Waco videos and America Under Siege, the
Special Ops helicopter unit and its black helicopters have been forced out
of the closet and onto the public relations battlefront. The black
helicopters of Special Ops were featured in the Army Times, July 10, 1995. A black
helicopter appears in an ad for the Army National Guard published in the Non Commissioned Officers Association (NCOA)
Journal, August/September, 1996.
People who publicize the secrets of the US military are
characteristically subjected to black propaganda campaigns aimed at
discrediting them. One such effort involved New York Times correspondent
Raymond Bonner, who revealed the US military involvement in the civil war in
El Salvador. See "Smear Jobs and Character Assassination" in
The Black Army in the War Gallery.
- Surviving Branch Davidians
- Personal interviews with surviving Branch Davidians from 1993
through 1996 by Waco Remembrance.
Veracity of Branch Davidian Statements
The accounts of events surrounding the Waco Holocaust given by the
surviving Davidians must be evaluated in light of the Branch Davidian's
present situation and the entirety of objective evidence concerning the
Holocaust.
As noted in the Treasury Report, "Activity In The Compound," pg.
92, apostate Branch Davidians were inside Mt. Carmel at the time of the
raid, posing as devout Branch Davidians and performing work as undercover
agents.
The London Sunday Times, March 21,
1993 indicated sophisticated surveillance devices had been installed
into the walls and phones at the Mt. Carmel Center. These were possibly
installed by undercover operatives living at the Mt. Carmel Center, posing
as Branch Davidians while they worked. See the War Gallery for discussion of
Trojan Horses and Branch Davidians.
These government operatives have never been identified. It is possible
that they are still posing as Branch Davidians and working as undercover
agents for the government.
In weighing the veracity of the statements of the surviving Branch
Davidians, there is no escaping the fact of the duress they have already
undergone: 80 of their friends, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters,
children, and grandchildren were vilified, tortured, killed, and imprisoned.
They experienced 51 days of terror.
According to Texas Ranger Alan Byrnes, who headed the Ranger operation
during the Waco Holocaust, the Branch Davidians who left during the siege
were "interviewed" (without attorneys present) by FBI/HRT
commandos. (Transcript, pg.
636 and 637). FBI
commandos are trained by Special Operations personnel, imbued with the
"Butcher and Bolt" philosophy of commandos. (See the War Gallery
for discussion of The Black Army, especially "Mindset of Secret
Commandos," and "Murder and Torture of Civilians" sections.
Victory is the objective in war, intimidation being one of the gentler
tools.
Some Davidians are serving long prison terms, the length of which could
depend upon the pleasure of their captors. Under such circumstances, few
people of ordinary mettle would risk more duress with brave or foolish
statements. Who could blame them, even if they testified against their
fellows, or parroted the words they were told to speak?
In short, the Branch Davidians must be regarded as people still under
duress; the veracity of their statements must be evaluated against the
entirety of the evidence.
Other background materials are listed in the Bibliography.
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Alert! Yet another attempt to cover up the the Waco Holocaust. Read about the
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Engagement in the Museum's Burial Gallery.
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