From: [Terry Liberty Parker] at [libertybbs.ima.infomail.com] (Terry Liberty-Parker)
Date: 02 Mar 95 14:04:28 
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: WACO Protest AP Story

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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS Wed Mar 1, 1995

[Texas & Southwest section pg 28a]

Protesters Remember Waco Raid
Organizer demands state investigation

Associated Press

[Photo w/caption: Protestoers at the state Capitol mark the second anniversary
Tuesday of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' raid on the Branch
Davidian compound in Waco.]

AUSTIN - On the second anniversary of the deadly federal government raid on the
Branch Davidian compound of David Koresh, a small group of protesters gathered
at the Capitol to call for an independent investigation of the siege.

Terry Parker, a Libertarian Party member who helped organize the protest, said
Tuesday that the government needs to answer for it's actions Feb. 28, 1993,
near Waco.

On that day, about 75 agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
attempted to raid the religious compound in an effort to seize Mr. Koresh and a
stockpile of weapons.

Four agents and six Branch Davidians were killed in a gun-battle that
deteriorated into a 51-day standoff, culminating in a fire April 19. 1993, that
led to the deaths of Mr. Koresh and at least 80 others.

"The reason this horrible incidnet can't be let go is you have federal agents
who came into Texas, committed deadly acts and yet there has been no credible
investigation of criminal culpability on the part of the government," Mr Parker
said.

"The government has only examined itself, and that's just not enough to satisfy
justice."

About 25 protesters gathered at the Capitol carrying signs reading, "Remember
the Waco Atrocity" and "Remember the Children Who Died."

Mr. Parker released an open letter to Gov. George W. Bush in whech he asked the
governor to launch a state investigation into the federal government's actions
two years ago.

Leah Neal, an Austin Libertarian who joined in the protest, said: "There are
some of us who feel very passionately that this was an abridgement of our and
that it could happen to anyone.  The government massacred those people in my
opinion, and they (the government) haven't been charged.  In fact, they charged
the victims."


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