-Caveat Lector- http://etherzone.com/originals2.html Waco and Kosovo-Clinton’s Legacy of Church Burnings By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) Cox Washington Bureau reported Saturday that "Army anti-terrorism specialists, including the commander of the top-secret Delta Force, attended the 1993 meeting at which Attorney General Janet Reno approved use of tear gas against members of the Branch Davidian group near Waco, Texas." "It is the first indication that the Delta Force, whose presence at the fatal raid was disclosed this week, was involved in planning the operation." In 1995 I watched, and taped DAYS of testimony during the Congressional Hearings during which Reno managed to say almost nothing - certainly nothing about the involvement of Delta force. There was conflicting testimony about the flammability of the CS gas which, the Davidians claimed, was the agent which killed most of the children, who were underground in a shelter that they believed was the safest area of the facility. Government witnesses denied categorically that a flammable substance had been used and claimed the Davidians had set the fire themselves and killed their own children. I might point out that there are STILL Davidians in prison over this event - after the media had demonized David Koresh, just like they have demonized the Serbs in recent months Remember the clip, played over, and over, and over on network news in which David Koresh was saying "I am Jesus Christ?" A lot of talk show mileage was gotten out of the often played remark. However, nothing preceding or following the abrupt - "I am Jesus Christ" statement was EVER played. And, you know why? Because David Koresh was responding to a stupid question by a reporter in which he was stating that "...if that is correct, then I am Jesus Christ." His statement was followed by a burst of laughter because Koresh had put the reporter down. Only, it seems, the reporter had the last laugh because he doctored the tape to Koresh by cutting everything before and after "I am Jesus Christ" and was able to portray him as a monstrous fraud who claimed to be Jesus Christ who raped little girls and used religion as a means of controlling his followers. We learn from the latest admission as reported by Cox that Janet Reno has said that during that meeting, she raised “numerous questions about the effect tear gas would have on members of the rebellious religious cult and, especially, their children.” Now, exactly who was at that meeting? A document, written May 13, 1993 nearly a month after the fiery end of the Waco standoff, giving a synopsis of the April 14 meeting indicates it involved Reno, Col. William Boykin, then Delta Force commander, and Brig. Gen. Peter Schoomaker, then the assistant division commander of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, who were the previously unidentified officers who told Reno use of CS gas, a potent form of tear gas, plus then-FBI Director William Sessions, then-Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, two Army officer and several FBI agents. Boykin and Schoomaker told Reno the CS gas would make the compound "untenable” Who in that group would have been competent to answer the question of how the theology of the Branch Davidians might lead them to react to a military attack by government forces? Was the question merely one of what CS does PHYSICALLY to human subjects? If so, what the question about the effect CS gas would have on the so-called “rebellious religious cult?” What, exactly, did their religion have to do with the decision to gas them? While Reno was asking the Delta Force commander what effect the gas would have on Koresh and his band of followers, David Koresh was working day and night on an analysis of the meaning of the “seven seals” of the Book of Revelation in the Bible and what it meant. He had told his attorney, Dick DeGuerin on April 14, five days before the attack began, in a letter that he would “come out” of Mt. Carmel, when he had completed his treatise on the Seven Seals. Former FBI agent Jeff Jamar testified on July 27, 1995 that he would have cancelled the CS Gas operation had there been any evidence that Koresh was working on his Seven Seals treatise following his April 14th pledge to come out and challenged the congressional committee to listen to the negotiation tapes of the last few days. In fact, the negotiation transcripts show that Koresh WAS working on the manuscript and that Jamar's testimony, as well as that of agent Byron Sage, was completely in error on this point. Branch Davidian Steve Schneider, stated clearly on Friday afternoon, April 16, that Koresh had finished the first Seal, was working on the second, and that he had SEEN the handwritten papers, around 28-30 pages, as David was working on them. (Tape 236, p.29). Jamar quoted Steve as saying "I haven't even seen the first one" but he took the quote totally out of context. That quote occurs on the same tape (#236, p.2), and it is obvious that Steve means he had not been given it yet to edit, not that David had done nothing. He further says the editing work will "take no time at all" The government’s behavior “proved” to the Davidians that Koresh’s theology was correct. One of the few survivors of the Waco holocaust is Livingstone Fagan, graduate of a British theological school, former member of the Seventh Day Adventists. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison and in his writings from prison said, in part: “Through the electronic media, radio and television etc., the government did a brainwashing job on its people. By controlling and manipulating the information people received regarding Mt. Carmel, the government sought to maintain control over peoples thinking and judgments. Further, by labeling the residents at Mt. Carmel as brainwashed, along with all the other tactical language it employed, the government was able to shield its own brainwashing tactics on its people, from its people. Similarly, by placing the bogus charges of conspiracy against the survivors, it was able to shield its own conspiracy. It is necessary to transcend the bounds of these mind games, to properly appreciate what is going on. These are ingeniously simple, but effective techniques of deception. The electronic media, has made it possible to deceive and manipulate, countless numbers of people. Being so pervasive, it is almost impossible to be subject to it without being affected by its deceptive influence. People are constantly being led to believe they are thinking for themselves, making their choices, when in fact, they are being manipulated.” About the so-called “effort to deliver a search warrent” (it was never served) Fagan said, “I am not an American citizen, but I am not un-American. In my understanding of the Constitution, assuming it to be still in force, it is the right of the citizens of this nation, not to be subject to unreasonable search and seizure. I don't believe it takes much intelligence to conclude that, approximately 100 fully armed agents, 3 military styled helicopters, plus all that hardware that came against us, constitutes unreasonable search and seizure. This was not a fictitious movie you watch on television, sitting in the comfort of your living room, it was reality. Perhaps this nation has lost the ability to differentiate between reality and fantasy, and appreciate the different responses required of the two.” And what was the search about? Guns. Why did the Davidians have guns? Well, they had a license to buy and sell guns. That was one of the means the group had to support themselves and their families and their buildings. The local sheriff had previously come and gotten their gun, checked to see if any were “illegal” guns, and had RETURNED them. He didn’t conclude that any illegal activity was taking place. Six years after the fact, we are being told that the Feds DID lop indendiary devices into the building on the day of the fire that killed about 80 people, but it didn’t start the fire on April 19, 1993. FBI spokesman John Collingwood said, ``all available indications are that those rounds were not directed at the main, wooden compound'' in which Koresh and many of his followers died.” Where WERE they directed? “The FBI may have used a very limited number of military-type CS gas canisters on the morning of April 19 in an attempt to penetrate the roof of an underground bunker 30 to 40 yards away from the main Branch Davidian compound.'' And, what was in the bunker the FBI was so determined to inject with flammable CS gas? Allen Stone, a contributor to the campaigns of liberal Democrats, film reviewer and the only member of the Justice Department's panel appointed after the tragedy at Waco who had been openly critical both of the federal agencies involved and of the subsequent government investigation, wrote: “Because I was very concerned about the lethal risks to small children of prolonged exposure to CS gas, I asked many questions about the tank plan. Not until William Gazecki's film, (Waco: Rules of Engagement) however, did I learn that the FBI intended to deposit the noxious substance directly on the bunker where they believed the children would be. Nor was I informed that tanks would push down walls to reach that location. The FBI plan in fact imposed much greater risk of loss of life than I was told or had imagined. Gazecki may therefore be correct in believing that some Branch Davidians were crushed by tanks. I had never before considered that possibility.” Stone also noted in the review of Gazecki’s award-winning film that “The documentary's third kind of evidence is based entirely on heat-sensitive film and an expert's interpretation of it. The expert repeatedly points to flashing lights on the film which he claims are bursts of heat that do not occur in nature and can only be made by automatic weapons. He asserts that those weapons are firing into the compound on the side away from the television cameras. There has already been enough discussion of this heat-sensitive evidence in the media to suggest that Gazecki's expert has given a plausible but not irrefutable opinion. If it is true, then many FBI agents knew about it and there was a massive cover-up.” This would seem to indicate that the flammable CS gas, combined with weapons firing into the compound caused the explosion and fire that consumed the Branch Davidians’ church and homes. Increasingly we may find as historians look back on the Clinton administration, his most lastly legacy will be the destruction of Christian churches and the slaughter of unsuspecting Christians, beginning with the Branch Davidians in 1993, who believed what was happening to them had been foretold by Scripture in the Book of Revelation and the bombing and burning of more than 50 Serbian Orthodox Churches in 1999. 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