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                                     The
                                 Sixth Column

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                                  Waco Update

By: Lestat De Lioncourt


     Some people have told me, "Its a dead subject, its past."  Sorry, but I
cannot condone the genocide of Americans because the federal government
doesn't like their religion.  (Remember the Constitution)

     There have been some interesting developments in the Waco story that need
to be told.  We have recently acquired a copy of "Waco, the Big Lie" and were
shocked at the footage that Linda Thompson had put together.

     At midnight on November 19th, I received a phone call from another
patriot, who informed me of recent developments.  This patriot distributes the
Waco Video out here in California, and if you want to get in contact with him,
leave me e-mail on DnA Systems for his name and number.

     He told me that an ex-congressman from Anaheim (CA), had seen the Waco
Video, and was so enraged that he bought ten (10) copies of the video and was
on his way up to Sacramento (CA, Capital) to show the video to people at the
State legislature.  He was to do this around 10am later that day.

     I was asked to join in a demonstration on the Federal Building steps in
Santa Ana (CA) to distribute information about the video and what happened in
Waco.  I was also informed that OCN (Orange County News) would be out to
interview us.  Needless to say, I joined them.

     I showed up right on time, and began holding a sign and distribute
information.  Here is what some of the signs said:

               FBI tanks          Proof on
              set fire to        VIDEO that
               Davidian          FBI started
               Compound!          the fires


     I doubt any federal employee enjoyed their lunch that day.  Every bus
that went by, honked in support of us.  Now, you people that have seen DnA
Systems and the Column can get an idea of how uncomfortable I felt being there
on the Federal Building's steps.

     OCN showed up a few hours later, and began their interview.  It was
extremely biased on the government's side, but the coordinator wasn't going to
let the media twist his words.  He knew exactly what to say and how to say it.

     The federal employees must have been rather pissed at us, because they
decided to make their own statement after the news cameras were gone.  Someone
dropped a water-filled latex surgical glove from the top of the federal
building.  It hit the ground about twenty feet away from me, and startled
everyone in the area.

     Rule No. 1: The federal government hates it when you exercise your
                 rights, and especially when they are the ones getting the
                 shaft.

     Several people were carrying flags in the demonstration.  "Don't tread on
me" and the flag of the thirteen colonies were some of them.  People wearing
shirts with, "Is your church ATF approved?" on them also marching the line.


    As of the distribution of this article, I don't know what transpired in
Sacramento.  I am still attempting to get information.  Try ColumNet for
quicker updates or requests.

    The local rally wasn't a complete loss.  A few days later, the Orange
County Register ran this article.  Take careful note of what the author says
in his article.

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The following is an exact copy of an article that appeared in
The Orange County Register on Sunday, November 28th, 1993.


By: Alan W. Bock

THE QUESTIONS ABOUT WACO KEEP COMING

     Although the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was harshly
criticized in an official report for the way the stand-off between the Branch
Davidians and federal agents began last February, the FBI was blamed hardly at
all for the fiery way the stand-off ended in April - at least in an official
Justice Department report issued early in October.

     But new criticisms of the way the FBI and the Justice Department handled
the stand-off and the final "solution" keep emerging.  What's becoming clear
is that we need to know much more about events in Waco last April 19, and that
the more we know, the worse the FBI role looks.

     Dr. Alan Stone, a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard who was
asked by the Justice Department to undertake an independent investigation as
an outside expert, didn't associate himself with the original evaluation.

     Now he has issued his own report, and it is sharply critical of the FBI,
which ignored its own behavioral experts on the scene, Stone says, and
"embarked on a misguided and punishing law-enforcement strategy that
contributed to the tragic ending at Waco."

     Stone also said there were "serious unanswered questions" about why
Attorney General Janet Reno thought it would be safe or advisable to use tear
gas "in a closed space where there were 25 children, many of them toddlers and
infants."

     "It is difficult to understand why a person whose primary concern was the
safety of the children would agree to the FBI's plan," said Stone of Reno's
approval of the tear gas plan.

     Stone places more blame on the FBI and the government than most official
assessments have, but he still accepts the idea that the Davidians started the
fire that led to the holocaust.  But critical examination of the Justice
Department's report and of independently-obtained videotape of the assault
puts even this conclusion into question.

     The California Organization for Public Safety (COPS) in corona has spent
hundreds of hours examining videotape, first from people who taped material
from satellite downlinks and then some original network affiliate footage.
COPS "has discovered strong evidence that the government may have started the
first fire as well as the second in the alleged "three points of origin"
referred to in the Justice Department documents."

    The Justice report itself refers to "an apparent deviation from the
approved plan."  The original plan was to dismantle the building only if,
after 48 hours, all the people hadn't come out.  But on the morning of April
19, the tanks - which were supposed to be just making small holes to insert
tear gas - started knocking large holes into the compound.  One entire corner
of the building was knocked down, destroying a stairwell that could have
served as a means of escape.

    The most shocking aspect of the government assault was the complete
destruction of a "gymnasium" building at the far northeast side of the complex
- on the other side of the complex from where the media cameras were.  This
building was knocked to the ground by tank assaults, more than likely with
people inside.

    According to the government's aerial photo, taken from a Forward-Looking
Infrared Radar (FLIR) camera, which detects heat, there's an obvious heat
plume showing in the rubble in an infrared photo taken at 11:59:16, about
eight minutes before the government report says the first fire started, at
12:07:41.  That heat plume spread through the rubble and eventually into the
rest of the compound.

    As the COPS report, accompanied by a videotape and released to various
people in the media a couple of weeks ago, puts it, "The question of how and
why the fires started cannot be deduced from the evidence we have reviewed to
this point."  But it seems pretty likely that the gymnasium fire, even if it
came from a kerosense lantern being used by the Davidians, was started by the
government action of demolishing the gymnasium.

    Absolute certainty may not be possible in this case.  But it would be
useful to have the government's FLIR tapes examined closely by independent
experts.  Whether this would best be done by media organizations using the
Freedom of Information Act or by an independent counsel is subject to
question.

    There's another aspect.  On Nov. 5, the Dallas Morning News ran a news
story to the effect that Parkland Memorial Hospital is suing the federal
government for not paying for the treatment of three Branch Davidians who were
brought there after the fire started.

    Tom Cox, Parkland's director of legal affairs, thinks the government
should pay because it called the hospital asking about bed space and
specifically about the hospital's burn unit.  The only question is whether
authorities asked about the burn unity during a 6am call (the fire, remember
started around noon) or during a later call.

    There's much we still don't know about the fiery end of the Branch
Davidians.  But whether due to negligence or malice, the FBI's role gets less
and less attractive the more we do know.

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     Maybe this is a step closer to getting justice for those murdered at the
hands of a cold and brutal government.  We shall see.  Agents of the FBI and
ATF (this includes Reno and Clinton) better hope that God is a myth, because
there isn't a torture in hell that these people do not deserve for a few
thousand years.  And that is being lenient.


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