
                     DRESS REHEARSAL AT WACO

	Words can't express the sickness, horror and outrage I felt, watching an
army tank bash holes in the walls of the house at Mt. Carmel Monday, April 19,
1993 -- exactly 50 years after the Nazis burned the Warsaw ghetto. And all the
while, the FBI's personal buffoon, Ricks, sanctimoniously made claims that this
was done to "urge" the people to come out, that the FBI was "concerned about
child abuse" because of the "conditions the children were living in."

	What utter and total bald-faced lies.

	The holes were bashed in the sides of the building, not to introduce CS
gas, so much as to make sure the house was well ventilated, so that the fire
would spread rapidly.

	I have received reports from no less than 15 people across the country
who saw on the TV footage, two men in black uniforms, wearing gas masks, set the
fire.

	I personally saw an incendiary fly through into the second story window.

	Three others reported seeing footage where the tank drove over a gas
tank, exploding it.

	I represent several family members and Branch Davidians. I have talked
with several Branch Davidians.

	They are not glazed over moonie-type crazies. They are well educated,
articulate, very nice people. All of them had normal jobs outside the Mt.
Carmel Center. None of them believed they were under David Koresh's "control."
All of them said they were free to leave whenever they wanted.

	One of them said that there was no "suicide" -- that no one from the
Branch Davidians set the fire at all and didn't know it was coming.

	And the real story follows.

	Most of you have seen our earlier accounts of Waco while the Branch
Davidians were under seige and know from the TV news what the conditions were
there.

	The news media was kept 3 miles from the Mt. Carmel Center by armed
guards at all roads into the compound. And the media dutifully reguritated
whatever tripe the FBI fed them each day at 10:30, calling it "news" as they
slandered the Branch Davidians, spreading lies of "child molesting", "planned
mass suicide", and "religious whackos in Waco."

	No matter, sensationalism sells newspapers, doesn't it? It gets those
network ratings up, too. It wouldn't be a story if they told the truth. The
FCC might shut down a network or two or yank a permit. Better that 100 people
should die in an inferno than expose the depths of the depravity of the leaders
of this country.

	Well, the FBI lied and so have the major media throughout this entire
ordeal. Here's the real story:

	In 1992, Sheri Jewel and her ex-husband were in a custody battle over
their daughter, Keri. Sheri was a Branch Davidian and she was killed in the
fire Monday.

	Her ex-husband is a radio announcer. His wife is a TV personality. They
have money.

	A fellow named Mark Breault, who is reputed to have a felony record, used
to be a Branch Davidian. He proclaimed himself to be a prophet. After awhile,
he tried to take over the Mt. Carmel compound and was ousted by David Koresh.
Breault, an Australian, left, vowing revenge. He often called the compound
daily to harrass the members.

	The Jewel's hired Mark Breault to testify in their custody dispute. In
an affidavit, Breault made allegations of child molestation and religious
weirdness. This was in Michigan in 1992.

	Senators were contacted to investigate these allegations, as was the
"Cult Awareness Network." The Cult Awareness Network is a group in Washington,
D.C., headed by the wife of late Senator Ryan who was killed at Jonestown. She
has a personal vendetta, too. And she wields a lot of power in Washington,
apparently, because if someone ends up on her cult hit list, they frequently end
up dead.

	The allegations of child molestation were investigated in the intervening
two years, twice, by Texas welfare department authorities and found to be
baseless. The Sheriff's department investigated the allegations of illegal guns
and these claims were found to be baseless. The investigations were peaceful.
There were no problems.

	Mark Breault, however, continued to make his baseless and slanderous
allegations against the Branch Davidians. The Cult Awareness Network turned up
the pressure.

	The newspapers called Breault a "private investigator who has tracked the
Davidians for two and a half years." "Tracked"? They had lived at the Mt.
Carmel Center since 1935. How much "tracking" did it take? "Investigator"?
Ha. He's a self-proclaimed "prophet" with a vendetta against the Branch
Davidians. And who paid him so handsomely that he could afford to "track" them
for 2-1/2 years, anyway? Did the media bother to check any of this out? Never.

	 Another man was shot and his body was left up on the water tower for
days by the government and it, too, was dropped to the ground at night by a
helicopter, leaving pieces to be scraped up from the ground.

	The two old ladies who came out of the compound with the children said
that all the children had been in an upstairs room when they were suddenly fired
upon by helicopters through the roof the day of the seige. They covered the
children with their own bodies to protect them. These old ladies were charged
with murder and held in jail. Eventually, they were put under arrest as
material witnesses and held in a half-way house out of the city.

	While the FBI was claiming to be urging the Branch Davidians to
surrender, FBI spokesperson Ricks announced on Friday, April 17th, that anyone
who came out would be considered a threat to the BATF agents and would be shot.
Shots and percussion grenades were fired at a person who tried to leave through
a window that day and at Steve Schneider. Ricks said that Steve Schneider had
"abused his privileges" and had to be taught a lesson.

	For 51 days, the FBI tortured the people inside the Mt. Carmel center.
All utilities, including sanitation, were cut off. Loudspeakers were set up all
around the house to blare sounds 24-hours a day, including the sounds of rabbits
being slaughtered, the sound a phone makes when it is left off the hook, Tibetan
monk chants, jet airplanes, babies crying, and songs such as "these boots are
made for walking" and Christmas carols.

	Stadium lights were set up to keep the place lit up 24 hours a day.
Military tanks, including M1 Abrams and Bradley's, were brought in and rapidly
circled the house, firing percussion grenades, continuously. The tanks would
charge up to the house and then stop within feet of the house repeatedly.

	Black helicopters flew overhead. Two Huey gunships also flew over
frequently, guns mounted in front.

	Around the 40th day of the seige, David Koresh announced that the
children and babies were out of milk. Two relief efforts to bring baby food to
the Mt. Carmel compound were turned back. Two people, one of them Gary
Spaulding from South Bend, Indiana, were arrested for trying to take the food
past a roadblock. When I posed the direct question to the FBI headquarters, "Has
it come to this? Does the United States government want babies to starve to
death?" The answer was, verbatim, "Yes." An ATF agent, in a pickup truck that
said "Wild Bill" on the side, stole the food, too. And to that agent, and every
state trooper, every BATF agent, and every FBI agent who prevented those
children from receiving food, you are murderers.

	And how did the BATF account for what it did when it assaulted the Branch
Davidians? Did it offer to show the American public the search warrant they
claimed to have? No. In fact, the search warrant and probable cause affidavit,
if they existed at all, were "sealed" by court order. A court order from the
same judge who apparently signed it in the first place.

	The same judge, Walter Smith, Jr., of the Waco Division, Western U.S.
District Court in Waco, denied eight petitions for relief filed by various
lawyers seeking to order the FBI and  BATF to be made to follow the law and the
United States Constitution. The government never once filed a single paper in
opposition to any of these motions. There was clear, controlling Supreme Court
law that required that these petitions be granted. The judge had no legal
reason to deny them, yet he did. And he used the same order, nearly a Xerox, to
deny all of them. Walter Smith, Jr., you are a murderer.

	Walter Smith is the same judge who allowed arraignments of people who
left the compound to be held in secret. When there was not sufficient probable
cause to hold them under arrest, he allowed them to be detained in jails as
"material witnesses." And this same judge is the only judge in that division,
where all the remaining Branch Davidians, now facing "murder" charges, will be
put on trial.

	After the BATF and FBI learned that the American Justice Federation had
released a press release stating that the use of military troops against United
States citizens violated federal law, specifically, the Posse Comitatus Act, the
BATF released a cover story, claiming that the tanks were "really" not Army,
they were national guard, and had been brought in under the "Drug interdiction
act" because they had heard there was a "methamphetamine lab" -- three weeks
after the FBI had already publicly announced there was never any question
whatsoever of drug involvement.

	Governor Ann Richards of Texas, who authorized the use of the tanks,
claimed she had been tricked. But she still did not order the tanks to be
withdrawn. Ann Richards, you are a murderer.

	Each day, secret horrors were perpetuated upon the Branch Davidians, out
of sight of the American public, as the press cowered like sheep, out on the
fringes. Each day, the FBI gave us "The Truth", as told by the FBI, and the
news media dutifully lapped it up and spread it throughout the country,
poisoning the minds of people across the country, just as the FBI intended. FBI
Agents Jeff Jamar and Ricks, you are murderers.

	Did any of the news media ever challenge how the BATF might have any
jurisdiction at all over "child molesting" allegations? Or their authority to
bring in two cattle trailers full of armed men, who threw grendades at the front
door and went in shooting at women and children on a Sunday morning? Each of
you in the media, who didn't question, who didn't challenge, who didn't know
enough about the Constitution of this country to even ask an intelligent
question, each of you are murderers.

	One or two persons asked decent questions at the press conference. Lewis
Beam, a former KKK grand dragon and political activist, and a reporter from
Soldier of Fortune Magazine, were kicked out of the press conference for doing
so. Lewis Beam was arrested. His crime? Asking "Is this the beginning of
Gestapo tactics and martial law in this country?" at the press conference.

	Two other known "trouble makers" (this author included), were prevented
from entering the press conference, despite valid press credentials. In fact,
later that day, I was detained, as a BATF agent at a road block pointed a
machine gun at me and my partner, John Baird, and our credentials were stolen.
My crime? I had filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Branch Davidians, asking that
they be allowed to have legal counsel.

	And, for all the unasked questions: No, it is not illegal to own a
machine gun in this country. Even if the Branch Davidians had a machine gun,
which it now appears they did not, if it was "illegal" it merely meant that a
$200 tax had not been paid on it. All it takes to legally own a machine gun in
this country is to pay a $200 tax and fill out a Form 4. The BATF is supposed
to check that those taxes have been paid.

	Neighbors we have spoken with who have known the Branch Davidians for 15
years described them as "good samaritan" types who helped their neighbors and
were kind and friendly. Normal people, good neighbors. The kind of folks you'd
probably rather have living around you than the thugs who commit the drive-by
shootings, rapes, and robberies, for instance.

	Calling a religion a "cult" and putting out false information across the
media about "child molesting" and "weapons caches" is exactly the same technique
that was used by the Nazis to portray the Jews as filthy, disgusing people, so
they could be killed. It is the same technique used by every tyrannical
government, to kill an unpopular and potentially vocal adversarial group. But
in this country, we are supposed to have freedom of religion. It would seem
that is a pipe dream.

	We have three confirmed reported citings of trainloads of U.N. tanks
going into Portland, Oregon, over the past few weeks, and troop movements of
unmarked military vehicles across the nation. Perhaps you might want to ponder
the significance of these events. And tonight, Peter Jennings, in yet another
"made for propaganda" ABC News TV special, gave a full and impartial (not)
accounting of events by having those bastions of integrity, Kisser, of the Cult
Awareness Network, and a former Branch Davidian, give us "insight" into how
Branch Davidians and "all cults" think. As if they know. Peter Jennings twice
said tonight, that "there are more than 100 cults across the country and this is
a warning of things to come."

	Paul Fatta, a Branch Davidian, held a Class III dealer's license. That
meant that he could legally own, sell, and buy, any type of gun. It is thus
highly unlikely that there were any "illegal" guns in the center at all. And
who is responsible for issuing these permits? The BATF. They knew Paul Fatta
had a license.

	Paul Fatta was not at the Mt. Carmel Center the day the BATF assaulted
the Branch Davidians. Nonetheless, he is now listed on the FBI's "10 Most
Wanted" list as "armed and dangerous." This gives the government the ability to
shoot him on sight and then claim he was a "fleeing felon." It is, in
otherwords, a license for the government to kill, again. To bury the best
evidence against them, again.

	David Koresh had a message for the world. He wasn't holding out to
commit suicide. He didn't hold anyone hostage. He wanted to give what he
believed was a gift to the world. He believed he held the secret to the seven
seals, spoken of in Revelations. He wanted to offer what he knew for anyone who
could hear it, believing he had a duty to offer it to help save the souls of
those who did not know. He wanted the time to write it down, which he had to do
in candlelight, using a manual typewriter, on scraps of paper. He sent a
message to the FBI telling them this. He also sent messages, Bible scriptures,
that said that God would send his holy armies to smite his enemies.

	That much may be true. The Waco massacre has awakened Americans all
across the nation to what is horribly wrong in this country. A voice of unity
is being heard, growing louder each day. Interstingly, the day the Branch
Davidians were murdered is also the anniversary of the ride of Paul Revere.

	We have seen our leaders on the television, lying to us with straight
faces, offering justifications for this carnage, as if there could ever be any
possible moral explanation or excuse that could be enough. That the people
offering these excuses are morally bankrupt and corrupt, should be obvious. A
simple, "We're sorry" would at least show a glimmer of common decency and
humanity, but those words have never crossed any of their lips.
And each of them, Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, William Sessions, and Lloyd Bentsen,
are murderers.

	So, America, we have cold-blooded killers running our country. Isn't it
about time you put down your beer, get up off the sofa, and do something about
it?

Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
317-780-5204


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