-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Waco Re-Enactment Looks Like Set-up By Ed Wolfe - Webslinger of Sierra Times.com February 19, 2000 The federal government is sick and tired of defending it's actions in Waco and has agreed to perform a re-enactment of the final events leading to the end of the 51 day siege on the Mt. Carmel complex on April 19th, 1993. Federal Judge Walter Smith, (Clinton appointee) has decided on a re-enactment which is tentatively scheduled to take place on March 18th or 19th of this year at Fort Hood, Texas. Judge Smith is currently presiding over a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the government by surviving members of the 7th Day Adventist sect commonly known as the Branch Davidians. The purpose of the re-enactment is to settle the issue of whether or not FBI agents fired at the house and the survivors on the last day of the siege. Critics of the government claim that house occupants fleeing from the mysterious fire ran directly into the gunfire of FBI agents instead of the relative safety they sought. The government maintains that not only did it's agents not shoot the survivors, but that they never even fired their weapons on that final, tragic day. Special Counsel, John Danforth, former Republican Senator from Missouri has been investigating the incident at Mt.Carmel and is credited with bringing about the re-enactment, which both sides hope will prove their case. However, anyone with average intelligence has to be curious about a few facts regarding the interpretation of the test results. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, John Danforth recommended to Judge Smith that a "British" company called Vector Data Systems should be the one to conduct the test and to interpret the results. VDS is reported to have former Royal Air Force pilots in it's employ, to be experts at interpreting infrared images, and most significantly, to be an "independent" expert that both the government and the Davidian lawyers can count on for impartial analysis. This is where something stinks in St. Louis. Vector Data Systems is not a British company, and as far as this writer can determine, never was. Although it may have RAF pilots in it's employ, that would probably be due to the fact that VDS has branches in the United Kingdom, Australia and Korea in addition to it's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The company was purchased in 1997 as one of the first in a string of information technology acquisitions by the Anteon Corporation. Anteon Corporation, head-quartered in Fairfax, VA is not a British company either. Although it's possible that Anteon will be using it's British subsidiary of Vector Data Systems to conduct the test and interpret it's results, it is misleading to simply state that the independent expert is "a British company." Even more interesting is the fact that Danforth who is supposed to be seeking the truth, picked an unusual company to serve as the "impartial" arbiter of the test results. The Anteon Corporation is a very high tech, multi-million dollar company that gets a large share of it's profits from federal government contracts. And we're not talking about the British government either. Just last month Anteon signed a 2.2 million dollar deal with the General Services Administration to provide program management analyses and assessments for the United States submarine force. In December of last year, Anteon scored another $10 mil from the government till in a deal with the Veterans Health Administration. Two months before that, Anteon signed a 7.8 million dollar contract with the U.S. Coast Guard. September was another lucrative month resulting in a $43 million dollar contract with the U.S. Navy. Finally, topping the list is a $250 million dollar Blanket Purchase Agreement with the GSA to provide the federal government with critical infrastructure service as ordered in Presidential Decision Directive #63, penned by Bill Clinton on May 28, 1998. PDD #63 calls for the following: "...strengthening of the nation's defenses against emerging unconventional threats to critical infrastructures, the physical and cyber-based systems essential to the functioning of the United States economy and the government. These include essential government services, information and communications, banking and finance, energy, transportation, water supply, public health, law enforcement, and emergency services." Anteon, the parent company of Vector Data Systems, will provide services and products in the following areas: critical infrastructure asset identification; vulnerability and threat assessment; readiness and contingency planning; physical infrastructure protection; cyber security and information assurance; and emergency preparedness training, exercises, and simulation. (Apparently Anteon is the contractor responsible for protecting us and the government from the recent internet attacks.) This is the independent "British" company that Special Counsel John Danforth recommended and that Federal Judge Walter Smith appointed to conduct the tests to try to determine whether or not the government fired upon the Davidians during the end of the 51 day siege. Danforth told ABC's "This Week" that his mission in this investigation is to determine if there was a government cover-up regarding the government's activities at Mt. Carmel. Then he suggests to the judge presiding over the Davidian lawsuit to use Vector Data Systems. What kind of judge would agree that VDS (or Anteon) could possibly be impartial when it functions primarily as a government contractor? Upon further investigation, such a decision by Judge Smith is not surprising at all in light of his previous questionable actions while presiding over the criminal charges against the Davidian survivors. According to Jack DeVault, author of "The Waco Whitewash," Judge Smith not only did away with the Voire Dire (jury selection by opposing attorneys) but he illegally sent a questionnaire to 300 potential jurors to weed out any that might be favorable to the defendants. The Judge told potential jurors that answering the questionnaire was not voluntary according to federal law. And yet Title 28 of the U.S. Code, Section 1869 indicates that it was the judge who was in violation of federal law. Some of the questions Judge Smith asked the potential jurors were: 27. What are your leisure time activities, interests or hobbies? 28. What is your religious affiliation or preference? (a) How often to you attend church, temple or other service? (b) How important would you say religion is in your life? 46. Have you or your spouse ever owned any type of firearm? If yes, for what purpose do you own a firearm? 47. Have you ever handled a firearm? If yes, when? For what purpose? 49. Have you ever attended a gun show? If yes, how many times? 50. Have you ever belonged to the National Rifle Association or any other organization that is concerned with protecting the right to own weapons? 51. Do you believe that persons besides law enforcement officers should be permitted to own firearms? 75. Do you belong to any organization that advocates jury nullification or advocates that members of the jury ignore the law given to you by the Judge? These questions make sense when you consider that the entire reason for the BATF's visit to Mt. Carmel was because it was suspected that David Koresh failed to pay a tax on some of his firearms. Of the 300 people sent questionnaires, 269 of them sent back responses. From those, Judge Smith hand-picked 84 to be the pool from which the attorneys could now select the jury and alternates. So it may come as no surprise that this same man appointed as an impartial arbiter a beneficiary of multi-million dollar government contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements. Will VDS/Anteon live up to the job of judging it's employer? We'll have to wait for the test results after they are first given to the government, and then released to the public only after the conclusion of the wrongful death suit. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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