"...demonize the group targeted for extinction. The Nazi's did it to the Jews. Our government did it to the Branch Davidians in 1993."
WACO-- THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT---
I rented this video from Blockbuster today and watched it for the first time. If you have not watched it... you owe it to yourself and those you love. This film will finally let you see what we are up against. Please take the time to rent the video, watch it and tell others to watch it.
I was going to write up a review of the video. When I checked my email, I found the following message from Gavin Phillips. Gavin must be on the same wavelength.
Gavin has just written a lengthy review of McNulty's new video. I think you will find it very informative.
Read what Gavin has to say, and then rent "Waco--- the Rules of Engagement", then follow it up with..."Waco: A New Revelation" Rayelan
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I've written a lengthy (4,688 words) review about Michael McNulty's recent outstanding documentary, "Waco: A New Revelation." (110 minutes) I was so incensed by the amount of evidence he has compiled proving government malfeasence during the Waco incident I was compelled to write a detailed review of it. I would like to inform as many people as possible about it's availability. I do not know anyone associated with it's production nor do I profit one red cent from it's sale. My review is below. It can also be accessed at http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a388175d5194e.htm
Waco: A New Revelation, Reviewed by Gavin Phillips [Free Republic]
Just passing the word along. Thanks. Gavin Phillips.
"Waco: A New Revelation"
Reviewed by Gavin Phillips
Please distribute
"Waco: A New Revelation" (110 minutes) is Michael McNulty's follow-up documentary to his previous academy award nominated documentary, "Waco: The Rules of Engagement." I was fortunate enough to catch "Waco: The Rules of Engagement"in it's very limited movie theater distribution. Although overlong by at least half an hour in my opinion, the documentary was a devastating indictment of the ATF/FBI handling of the 51 day siege at Mount Carmel, the home of the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas.
Most Americans, myself included, paid little attention to the seemingly never ending standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents. When the place burned to the ground on April 19, 1993, I still wasn't paying attention. The official version was that an insane religious cult, led by a sexual deviant and stone cold killer, David Koresh, had "ambushed" ATF agents whilst they attempted to serve a search warrant. During that initial shootout, four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. Koresh and his crazy followers brought it upon themselves, right? I couldn't be more wrong.
The official version of events was rammed down our throats day in and day out by the mainstream media. Buzzwords were repeated ad-nauseum, Cult, Pedophile, Compound, Religions that Kill, Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Sociopath. We were being conditioned by the government via the jingoistic mainstream media into a Pavlovian response to any mention of "The Wacko in Waco," that was of course that he was the heir apparent to Charlie Manson. It is a lie, as is 99% of everything else the government has told us about the events at Waco. It is a prerequisite to justifying genocide to demonize the group targeted for extinction. The Nazi's did it to the Jews. Our government did it to the Branch Davidians in 1993.
Although my review is rather long, (4,688 words), I hope you to take the 15 minutes or so to educate yourself and others about incontrovertible proof that federal agents were responsible for all the approximate 79/85 deaths of the Branch Davidians during the 51 day siege. It is the most disturbing and infuriating documentary I have seen in many, many years; wholesale government slaughter proven beyond a doubt. What follows is my review of "Waco: A New Revelation." Information not in the video is asterisked.
The Branch Davidians were an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventists. They moved to Waco in the mid 1930s. They took up residence at Mount Carmel in the early 1960s. The Branch Davidians and their spiritual leader David Koresh (*since the late 1980s), practiced a totally different kind of religion than Christians. They had different marriage rules, and different property rights than most Americans. They stayed for the most part inside Mount Carmel studying the bible under the tutelage of David Koresh. They were different from most Americans, but not hostile or unfriendly. In interviews during the documentary they come across as very polite, reasonable and well mannered.
On February 18, 1993, the day of the raid, the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) pulled up to the Mount Carmel residence and about 100 agents surround the Branch Davidians home, several run up to the front door. Other agents go to the back of the home and kill the Davidians' dogs. Dick Reavis, author of "The Ashes of Waco," says, "...[the ATF were] Shouting Police, search warrant lay down. According to them David was standing at the front door unarmed,...Shut the door,...And the next thing the ATF knew it says, it was receiving gunfire from inside of Mount Carmel. In particular from behind that front door.”
What ensues is the longest shoot out in the history of law enforcement leaving four dead ATF agents and six dead Branch Davidians. The question has always been, who shot first? Koresh and the Branch Davidians say that the ATF, totally unprovoked, shot through the door killing 60 year old Perry Jones and injuring David Koresh. The ATF had several video cameras taping the events at the front door.
Dr. Philip Arnold says,"...If you don’t believe me, look at the video tape, I know you have that tape, he (Koresh) says, I saw you making it across the road.”
Investigator (Attorney) David Hardy says,“...According to the agency there were three or four video cameras pointed at the front door that could tell you everything that happened to the front door of that building that day; they claim they can’t find a single one of them. Every one of those video tapes vanished.”
In addition to the missing video footage, the on scene activity log (*and the front door, mentioned in "Waco: The Rules of Engagement") also disappeared. In the initial raid you see ATF agents climbing onto the roof and going through a window. One Branch Davidian stated that she had just grabbed one of the children, when bullets came flying into the room. And yet Daniel Hartnett of the ATF says “...We’re a law enforcement agency, we don’t fire through walls indiscriminately at people.”
Why was it necessary to use some 100 ATF agents, three helicopters and a command post to serve a simple knock warrant? Why not arrest Koresh on one of his many trips to town during the week or when jogging? * As Koresh says, “You could have arrested me any day as I jogged up and down this road, you could have arrested me going to town or going to Walmart, all of this stuff you may, you guys may want to avoid and deny...Cos this aint America anymore when the ATF has that kind of power to come into anybody’s home and kick doors down and things like that.”
* The raid was officially called "Operation Trojan Horse". There is irrefutable evidence that the main reason for this overblown raid was for publicity purposes. The ATF had informed the media beforehand and even allowed a television crew to follow their cattle trailers right up to Mount Carmel. Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" said, "Almost all the agents we talked to said that they believe the initial attack on that cult in Waco was a publicity stunt..." At trial several ATF agents stated that one of the raid leaders shouted out the phrase, "It's Showtime" as they exited the cattle trailers. See "The Davidian Massacre" by Carol Moore pages 89-90.
Narrator Dr. Frederic Whitehurst then informs us that three Branch Davidians who were not in the building at the time of the raid try to return. Two are arrested, but Mike Schroeder is shot several times by eleven ATF agents, according to them he had a gun. An ATF agent stated later that when they left Mike laying on the ground he heard two more shots. Shroeder's autopsy report indicated two wounds behind his right ear about two inches apart. It seems that somebody went back and shot him twice in the head to make certain he was dead.
The question everybody asks is, why didn't they just come out? Some woman and children did leave the building. Others chose to stay in their home, they did not trust a government who had just murdered six of their friends and had trampled on their Constitutional Rights. As Rita Riddle said;
“...They were assuring us that we would be cared for in a professional manner. Then you turn around and you’ve got people that are flipping you the finger...they’re dropping their draws and baring their butts and these are the type of people that you’re supposed to go out to.”
An FBI negotiator later informs Branch Davidian Steve Schnieder that it would not be wise to leave the building.
FBI Negotiator “...The tactical people have changed the situation and for security reasons and for safety reasons no one is now authorized to come out of there for any reason. And what they’re telling me is, that if anybody does, they are going to be dealt with in such a fashion that the people will have to, retreat back to the compound.”
Little wonder that the Davidians decided to stay in their home. The other factor stopping the Davidians from leaving the building was the fact that according to their religion, the book of Nahum, they would be attacked by a hostile army representing an apostate government, Babylon. The FBI brought in tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. The FBI turned the power and water supply's off and started playing loud music and the sounds of rabbits being slaughtered. When Sue Johnson, Steves sister, asked the FBI why they were playing this kind of dreadful noise, she says, “...They would laugh, they acted like they wanted to do everything to antagonize them...I kept saying to my family, why are they doing this if they want them to come out.”
Koresh told officials that he would come out once he had finished writing down the meaning of the seven seals. He finished the first one and began the second when the FBI started inserting massive amounts of CS gas. Officials reassured everybody that CS gas was very safe and would do no lasting harm to any of the [approximate] twenty-two children in the building, even though it is only supposed to be used outside as a riot control gas and definitely not on toddlers and infants.*
* What is not explained in the documentary is the chemical makeup of CS gas and it's effects on people and children. CS gas is a white crystalline powder that causes eyes to close, burning of the skin, vomiting and severe respiratory problems on adults. The CS gas used at Waco was mixed with methylene chloride which when burned produces hydrogen cyanide, a highly toxic gas. America had signed a treaty in January of 1993 along with a hundred other nations, to ban the use of CS gas during war. Harvard professor Dr. Alan Stone, who testified at the Waco hearings in 1995, has been particularly critical of the ATF/FBI's handling of the raid and especially their use of CS gas. "I can testify from personal experience to the power of C.S. gas to quickly inflame eyes, nose, and throat, to produce choking, chest pain, gagging, and nausea in healthy adult males. It is difficult to believe that the U.S. government would deliberately plan to expose twenty-five children, most of them infants and toddlers, to C.S. gas for forty-eight hours." One eight year old child was so grotesquely deformed, her feet angled backwards towards her forehead. This is probably due to the burning of CS gas. Several charred little bodies were seen with the same disfigurement. See "The Davidian Massacre" by Carol Moore pages 293/297 (Also see an excellent Waco website http://www.wizardsofaz.com/waco/waco2.html )
FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said, “...We would not use dosages that would, would harm those children.”
Former FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts said, “...Any indication about danger or harm to those children, the rule was, back off.”
Frederic Whitehurst “...Following the gassing, the mothers of the children take them to an enclosed concrete vault which the FBI called “the bunker.” The FBI gasses the bunker for two hours.”
The FBI had three sniper teams present named sierra one, two and three. The government has stated categorically and repeated many times that no shots were fired into the complex on April 19. But FBI Special Agent Charles Riley writes in his after action report that he heard shots fired that morning from sniper position number 1, the undercover house. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard who was in charge of this FBI sniper team, none other than FBI murderer Lon Horiuchi. Those unfamiliar with the name, let me give you a quick update. About seven months prior to Waco, the FBI was involved in another appalling government debacle at Ruby Ridge in August 1992 . Lon Horiuchi is the FBI sniper who shot an unarmed nursing mother, Vicki Weaver, in the face during another murderous government siege gone horribly wrong. Horiuchi was never tried for his murder, although the shooting was deemed "unconstitutional;" I'd say so. (*Randy Weaver sued the government for the death of his wife and son. He and the government later settled the civil suit, with the government paying him and his family $3.1 million.)
So, about seven months after murdering Vicki Weaver, Lon Horiuchi is placed in charge of the blue sniper team at Waco. It seems Horiuchi has exactly the kind of character traits and "talents" that the FBI is looking for. Four spent shell casings are found inside the blues teams sniper location, the undercover house.
On the day of the fire, April 19, whilst media cameras were focused on the front of the Davidian home, a tank was moving into the rear and out of the escape hatch drop two men. Here we see some of the most dramatic and incontrovertible evidence that the FBI shot into the back of the burning building. Using black and white FLIR (Forward Looking Infra Red) video footage we see two men lying prone, muzzle flashes are seen as they fire machine guns into the rear of the complex. Dr. Edward Allard, Video and FLIR (Forward Looking Infra Red) Image Expert has stated that the flashes coming from men moving at the rear of the building is unmistakable machine gun fire. Using frame by frame analysis Dr. Allard finds that some of the flashes are occurring at a fraction of a second, in some cases a 30th of a second. He says “...They open up with automatic gunfire...There is absolutely nothing in nature that can cause thermal flashes to occur in a 30th of a second..." We also see someone firing into the dining room area. Dr. Allard says, ”...I stopped counting after about 62 individual shots.” Earlier in the documentary we see color video footage of machine gun fire from a helicopter sent to intercept somebody exiting one of the buildings.
Even more appalling is the fact that we see men firing into the only undamaged exit from the burning building, after-which about fifteen bullet ridden bodies are discovered. As Dr. Edward Allard states, “...We have men firing automatic weapons and they’re firing into the burning building...Like some sort of a cowboy movie they’re retreating down the building and firing as they’re retreating. I cannot remember something more sickening that I had to do to witness this.” The FBI says that the Davidians either shot themselves or each other.
Louis Freeh stated on NBC Meet the Press, May 4th 1997 “No shots were fired by any federal agents outside of the compound...Allegations raised about gunfire seemed to be based on some inferences from Infra-ray flash patterns and heat patterns. I think the overwhelming evidence clearly shows that no shots were fired.”
During the 1995 Waco hearings the government tried to counter the FLIR gunfire footage by alleging that it could be sunlight reflections.
Dr. James Quintieri, Justice Department Fire Expert, says “....So therefore it is more likely to have been reflected light off of something shiny in which the sunlight now gives an apparent temperature rise.”
Dr. Edward Allard says this explanation is impossible. “From the basic physics it’s safe to say that it’s impossible for the Waco FLIR to detect any solar reflections of any kind.”
Department of Justice FLIR video footage taken in 1993 shows American troops parachuting into Somalia and firing their weapons while descending. The gunfire flashes look identical to the flashes on the Waco FLIR footage.
Maurice Cox, a former analyst from the US Intelligence community tested the FBI claims using the principles of solar geometry. Maurice Cox's Sun Reflection Report concluded that the flashes seen on the FLIR footage could only be from gunfire. In January 1999 Mr. Cox challenged director Freeh and Bureau scientists to dispute his findings. There was no response.
Another serious issue which has been settled to my satisfaction was whether Delta Force personnel (Combat Applications Group) were not only at Waco but were shooting on the Branch Davidians. If this was the case, it is a totally illegal act, in contravention of Posse Comitatus. Posse Comitatus is a criminal statute which forbids the use of military personnel to be used on civilians, except by an act of Congress.
FBI Special Agent in Charge at Waco, Jeff Jama stated: “....Asked a question is, are we getting help from the Delta team and we’re not.”
This is an outright lie. Even the government now admits that one or two Delta men were there. The government says they were just there as "advisors" and didn't take any direct action. This is also seemingly a lie.
Gene Cullen. Senior Case Officer Special Operations Group, CIA, says; “....Originally I was told that there was just going to be one or two Delta personnel there as observers, but during the briefing it was mentioned that there was over ten Delta operators at Waco Texas, and they were not there merely as observers, but would be participating in any type of operational or tactical effort against the Branch Davidians.”
March Bell, Director of Waco Congress Investigation, said: “....Delta Force were advising the (FBI) hostage rescue team from inside the tanks...Or were present at the sniper posts, to provide support or assistance, and those types of activities to me would mean forward deployed. They were not back at a conference room or table giving advice...They were out there working shoulder to shoulder with the HRT.”
Steven Barry. Sgt 1st Class US Army Special Forces (Ret) says; “...I did talk to some combat applications group guys and they did confirm that yes, portions of the B squadron were there, pulling triggers.”
We now have very strong evidence that elite government assassins were illegally deployed at Waco gunning down children, woman and men. Even more disturbing is the very strong evidence that a high explosive "shape charge" was purposely placed on the concrete room where many children and woman were staying. During the documentary you see the percussion of an explosion and then a dramatic fireball, which was most likely due to a rupturing propane gas bottle. We are then shown a photograph and still video footage of an approximate three foot round hole on the top of the concrete cinder block, the last sanctuary of the woman and babies. Explosive experts say this is a result of a shaped charge placed there by government agents, whether they be ATF, FBI or Delta personnel. You clearly see the rebar bent inwards.
Steven Barry states; “...The, the blast hole at the top of the roof, you can plainly see the rebar is bent in. The damage to the stainless steel refrigerator, which appears to have been under the blast hole is consistent with a shape charge.”
Colonel Jack Frost Ordnance Engineer USAF Retired, states; “...Having examined still photographs and video tapes of the bunker it was apparent to me that this was caused by a shape charge. But what bothers me is who would have the audacity to use such a charge.”
Some have said that the hole was made by the small gas tank, but you see the explosion before the fireball of the propane gas ignition.
It really is a stomach twisting sight when you witness the mangled, dismembered and pulverized remains of the people inside, ripped limb from limb, charred torso's, arms and legs strewn everywhere. The cinder block was bulldozed and the concrete buried. Some six years later it was dug up in order to test the concrete around the hole to ascertain what caused it. "Surprisingly," the concrete around the hole was "missing."
Another important question lingering is, who started the fire? The government has adamantly denied firing anything into the building capable of starting a fire. The combination of CS gas vapors and fuel lanterns used by the Davidians when the power was turned off, combined to make a very volatile atmosphere. We hear on the tape some Davidians talking about spreading fuel around. The fact is that the FBI had listening devices planted all over the building and would have known about it. (*in "Waco:The Rules of Engagement," agents made a sick comment prior to the fire, saying that they hoped that the Davidians had fire insurance), so they knew what was going to happen, they wanted a fire, a fire is very useful for killing people and destroying evidence of illegal FBI acts.
In the fall of 1998 full access to the Waco evidence lockers was given to investigators. Pyrotechnic projectiles capable of igniting a fire and identified in crime scene photographs were missing from Waco evidence lockers. Six pyrotechnic flash-bang grenades were mislabeled as "gunparts". The flash-bangs were found in the SW corner of the building, the dining room and the Chapel, all points of origin of the fire.
After the murder and carnage, it was now time for the FBI to cover-up their despicable actions and completely destroy the crime scene. The FBI had predetermined that the Branch Davidians had committed mass suicide, so the crime scene was conveniently declared a "biohazard" and the cleansing of the evidence took place. The FBI hosed down much of the evidence using water and bleach. The bodies that were brought out were obvious homicide victims according to one anonymous FBI forensic crime scene analyst.
“...The majority of the people, the bodies that I saw...Were clear cut homicide victims.”
The bodies were put in a refrigerated truck, but mysteriously there was no power supplied to the truck.
March Bell Director of Waco Congress Investigation, said: “....For some reason, those trailers, who were under the control of the FBI, were allowed to not have any electricity running to them and the bodies deteriorated beyond which any sort of forensic evidence could be gathered. We were very, very troubled by that.”
At the trial for the surviving Davidians, the Jury found them innocent of the most serious charges, conspiracy to murder federal agents and aiding and abetting murder of federal agents, which was a major embarrassment for the government. But Jury verdicts are of little consequence to a regime in which every facet is imbued with corruption. At sentencing Judge Walter Smith still sentenced seven Davidians to a total of 170 years. See "The Davidian Massacre" by Carol Moore, page 449/453.
Jury forewoman Sarah Bain said; "...We came to realize, to late to correct, was that we could not have found them guilty of using firearms without having them, found them guilty of either conspiracy to murder or murder. Those two charges were tied together."
After watching "Waco: A New Revelation," I was overcome with anger, incomprehension and despair at the loss of so many for no reason whatsoever. I had just witnessed federal agents machine gunning, gassing and burning American Citizens because they hadn't played their part properly in the ATF's publicity stunt. We can name call, brand them vermin, it makes us feel better and distances us from them. But if you do that you trivialize the act and miss the point.
The men and woman of the ATF/FBI who turned Mount Carmel into a killing ground epitomize a certain mentality that has become prevalent in law-enforcement in the last fifteen years or so. They bulldoze through peoples lives, from one no-knock warrant to the next, smashing down doors, machine guns at the ready. Weekly they trample on Americans rights unimpeded, encouraged by their superiors to cut corners, do whatever is necessary to get the arrest, above all, the public is the enemy. They make the law, they are above the law, what they say goes-period. But at Waco things didn't go according to the script. Some of their fellow agents were killed during a totally unnecessary and rubber stamped raid whose sole purpose was to get them some good publicity for the upcoming appropriations committee.
This wasn't how it was supposed to be. They were the ones who did the shooting, they made the rules, and by God somebody was going to pay! Filled with unearned rage, empty of any compassion, reason or morals, they were going to get revenge, dammit. Driven by testosterone and the heady teenage thrill of driving tanks and destroying property, there was no stopping them now, there was blood in the air, they were on a mission. What we had at Waco were emotionally stunted bully's, their power trip in high gear, turning into remorseless killers who are unable to discern the difference between bravery and macho rhetoric. Their only frame of reference are Rambo movies.
After the blood letting it's Miller time. Regale each other with war stories and false bravado. One photograph* taken after Waco sums up the mindset of these agents. It is an agent posing with two firearms on a tank. The fact that he thinks that there is anything to be proud of after the death of some 90 Americans gives us plenty of insight into what went wrong at Waco. * See http://www.wizardsofaz.com/waco/waco2.html
For a few moments at Waco, the ATF/FBI walked in the footsteps of their Nazi brethren at Treblinka, Dachau, Auschwitz etc. The only difference being that under the Nazi dictatorship during World War II, anyone caught helping the Jews or refusing to kill them would be shot or imprisoned for many years. The stone killers of the ATF/FBI could have, at any time said, no more, they could have walked away. They may have been able to alert an ignorant public. Their worst fate would have been losing their job, and that is the difference.
Do you think preserving you and your children's freedoms and way of life as Americans is very important? Do you think holding your government and government agencies accountable for their actions is very important? Do you think learning the truth about Waco and not the propaganda spewed forth in the mainstream media is very important? If you think these reasons and many more are of vital importance then purchase this video.
I suppose you can do a couple of things. You can wring your hands and mouth off some platitudes, how bad the government is, what can you do? Blow off some steam and make yourself feel that you have done something. Five minutes later you get back to the game on TV. Or you can purchase the video and invite your friends and family around to learn about one of the most mendacious government orchestrated events that you will ever witness. Get it aired on public access TV. I hope at least that you e-mail 5 or 10+ people with my review and let them make up their own minds.
I wonder when the next Waco will come; I hope and pray, never. But I do know one thing for certain, unchecked government tyranny never stops at one or two or three acts of mass murder, they are never satisfied until we are all subjugated. The thirst for power is unquenchable for the Clinton's, the Reno's' and the Freeh's of this world. If you think otherwise, you are living in a state of denial, and the next Waco, and the next, are just around the corner. I will leave you with a quote from Branch Davidian Paul Fatta, sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Thank you for listening. Gavin Phillips. (freee80@hotmail.com)
"...This system had every opportunity to be fair and honest and truthful and treat us properly and they chose not to. They chose to lie, to deceive and to cover-up, to cover their position or their retirement or their, whatever it may be, and that's something they gotta deal with, they gotta look at their selves in the mirror every morning and say that, hey, I made decisions that ended up costing a lot of people their lives." - Paul Fatta
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