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From: [j k p] at [cs.HUT.FI] (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: [t.p.misc et al] Religious cult in Waco Texas
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 22:15:02 GMT

A repost from talk.politics.guns,soc.culture.usa,soc.rights.human:

Date: Tuesday, 2 Mar 1993 10:42:36 EST
From: <[34 AEJ 7 D] at [CMUVM.BITNET]>
Followups-to: talk.politics.guns
Subject:    BATF assualt on Texas ranch continues

                ATF Shootout:  Genocide in Texas?


     CNN reports this morning that 400 ATF agents are poised to
attack the Waco-area (Texas, USA) ranch of David Koresh(sp?) and
his religious group. News persons have, CNN reports, been moved
back another mile or two "for safety reasons" according to ATF.
Conveniently, this also gives the ATF a freer hand in conducting
their raid against a group consisting of 2/3 women and children,
without the irritating inconvenience of witnesses who might shed
too much light on ATF activities. At last report, armored
vehicles and the FBI Hostage Rescue Team (long range snipers)
were also on the scene.
     CNN quotes ATF persons as saying that "a total of 16
children have been released" - as though they had ever been
"prisoners". This smacks of demonizing the ranch dwellers to
"justify" their destruction. Does anyone seriously expect David
Koresh, or any of his followers, to come out of this alive? One
wonders if we are seeing Clinton's  National Police Force,
whose existence has so often been denied, coming out into the
open. Koresh has maintained from the outset that the ATF fired
first and without warning, says CNN, which further reports ATF
excuses for the situation varying wildly from "Koresh fired
first", to "somebody tipped them (Koresh;s group) off about the
raid", to "their (Koresh's) guns were bigger than our guns". That
last really smacks of the old, time-worn and long-discredited
"guns=penises" litany.
     Koresh, CNN reports, has been on a local radio station
getting his "religious message" out. One wonders if that was his
motive, or if he knew an ATF-backed genocide was imminent and
made a play for national news coverage in order to try to save at
least some of his followers from extermination. Meanwhile, more
and more heavily-armed, revenge-seeking ATF troops and armored
vehicles pour into the area under cover of darkness, reports CNN,
while news media access to the area becomes more and more
difficult. Is this in preparation for ATF's "Final Solution"?
     Meanwhile, no valid excuse for the raid has, according to
CNN, been put forward by ATF spokespersons, who are now quoted as
saying the ATF "practiced the raid for weeks before going in".
Why? The only statement made by the ATF, says CNN, is that there
were "rumors" in the nearby town that members of the religious
group "might" have some "assault STYLE weapons". [emphasis mine].
Assault style? Like perhaps a Ruger Mini-14 in a Politically-
Incorrect stock? For that 6 people are dead, 14 wounded, and an
entire religious community about to be exterminsted by ATF and
FBI snipers?  Does this, as CNN reports seem to intimate, mean
most if not all of the ranch dwellers - certainly Koresh
himself - will be shot "resisting arrest", or "trying to escape",
or perhaps later found to have all "committed suicide" by
shooting themselves in the head a few times?
     President Clinton, meanwhile, seems to be trying to keep
his/Hillary's skirts clean by pointedly ignoring the actions of
his storm troops in Texas. Perhaps this is only the beginning of
his plans for America.

W. K. Gorman