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David Koresh:
I'm bleedin; again? Well, you can see it anyway. It's kinda
painful. Oh, it ain't nothin' to a tough guy like me. It's just
flesh. It heals.
Narrator:
Some Davidian mothers sent their children out of Mt. Carmel. As
they were delivered to a rendezvous point, news reports said three
Davidians tried to escape by shooting their way past ATF agents.
The story was false.
Kathy Schroeder, Branch Davidian Survivor:
Sunday, my husband was killed by ATF agents. I want everyone to
know that that was totally, against, he was just corning home to
his family. He didn't kill anybody. That's all.
Narrator:
On the phone front, Jim Cavanaugh was trying to get David Koresh to
trust him.
Cavanaugh:
Well, I think we need to set the record straight, and that is that
there was no guns on those helicopters. There was National Guard
officers on those helicopters . . .
Koresh:
Now Jim, you're a damn liar. Now let's get real.
Cavanaugh:
David, I . . .
Koresh:
No! You listen to me! You're sittin' there and tellin' me that
there were no guns on that helicopter!?
Cavanaugh:
I said they didn't shoot. There's no guns on . . .
Koresh:
You are a damn liar!
Cavanaugh:
Well, you're wrong, David.
Koresh:
You are a liar!
Cavanaugh:
OK. Well, just calm down . . .
Koresh:
No! Let me tell you something. That night be what you want
the media to believe, but there's other people that saw too! Now,
tell me Jim again. You're honestly going to say those helicopters
didn't fire on any of us?
Cavanaugh:
David?
Koresh:
I'm here.
Cavanaugh: What I'm sayin' is . . . now I listened to you, now you listen to me, OK?
Koresh: I'm listening.
Cavanaugh: What I'm sayin' is that those helicopters didn't have mounted guns. OK? I'm not disputing the fact that there might have been fire from the helicopters. If you say there was fire from the helicopters and you were there that's OK with me. What I'm tellin' you is there was no mounted guns, ya know, outside mounted guns on those helicopters.
Koresh: I agree with you on that.
Cavanaugh:
Alright. Now, that's the only thing I'm sayin'. Now, the agents
on the helicopters had guns.
Koresh: I agree with you on that!
Cavanaugh: You understand what I'm sayin'?
Koresh: I agree with you.
Cavanaugh: OK, OK. So see, we're not even in dispute and Steven's getting all worked up over it.
Koresh: Well, no. What the dispute was over, I believe Jim, is that you said they didn't fire on us from the helicopters.
Cavanaugh: Well, what I mean is a mounted gun . . . like a, you know, like a mounted machine gun.
Koresh: Yeah. But like that's beside the point. What they did have was machine guns.
Cavanaugh: OK. I don't know what they had. They were armed. The people inside had pistols or rifles . . .
Koresh:
We agree.
Cavanaugh: OK, alright, that's good, that's good, we agree. So how ya doin' otherwise?
Bernadette, a Davidian:
I'm here of my own free will. I'm not being held hostage. And we
are a big family here. We're very happy. This is my family.
Those who do the will of God, my father, are my family. I love
those who are my family of the flesh, but until they know the truth
about this message then I have to put this family first,
Narrator::
On March 1, the BATF handed control to the FBI.
Dan Hartnett, Deputy Director, BATF:
My name is Dan Hartnett. I'm the Deputy Director of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms . . . We're both going to make a
brief statement, then we'll open it up for questions.
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent:
My name is Jeff Jamar, I'm the Special Agent in charge in the FBI
San Antonio division. And I'm the Special Agent in charge of FBI
operations here in Waco.
Reporter:
Could you spell your name?
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent:
It's J-a-m-a-r, first name's Jeff.
We're here because David Koresh and his followers killed four ATF agents . . . We've responded with necessary personnel and equipment. The area is a crime scene. The goal is to resolve this situation ultimately in federal court with no further bloodshed.
David Koresh, Killed April 19, 1993:
The FBI gettin' involved now is kinda like gettin' into a fight
with a couple of next door neighbors where, you know, the little
brother comes over and whips you and then the big brother comes
over to investigate. We'll try and work this out.
Narrator:
The Davidians were completely surrounded. FBI snipers were placed
in sandbagged positions here and here. Their clear field of fire
meant anyone trying to leave would easily be gunned down. Sierra
One was the code name for the front half of Mt. Carmel Center, it
was the side news cameras saw through telescopic lenses a mile or
two away. Sierra two was the back of half of Mt. Carmel, it was
completely hidden from public view.
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent in Charge:
We're prepared to do whatever it takes and stay here as long as it
takes to settle this matter without any further bloodshed.
Dan Hartnett, ATF Deputy Director:
We're a law enforcement agency. We don't fire through walls
indiscriminately at people. We have to have a target.
Reporter:
It appears there was a television crew on the scene, when were they
alerted and how many other local media people knew you were going
in?
Dan Hartnett, ATF Deputy Director:
We did not notify the media in advance.
Alan A. Stone, Harvard University:
It was the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that caused this
first disaster. OK, so the FBI takes over. They're very sensible,
reasonable. They decide we'll negotiate.
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
They quickly realized that the negotiators were not in charge and
Koresh at one point says look:
All you guys are anyway are waitresses. You carry my request back
to the kitchen where the boss
They say look . . . I can't make the decisions. If I could, things would go better. But the decisions are being made 15 hundred miles away in Washington, DC.
11: AM on March 2, 1993, Christian Broadcasting radio network
Koresh Audio Tape Clip:
We've made an agreement, the ATF agents said they would allow me to
have national coverage with this tape that I might give to the
world a small minute--small minute--bit of the information I've
tried so hard to share with people.
Reporter:
Can you say what God said to him ? Can you give a little more
details? After 1:30 you're waitin' for him, you finally make
contact. What does he say?
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent in Charge:
The question was "What did God say to Koresh?" He says that he did
not fulfill his promise to leave immediately with his followers,
because God told him to wait.
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
. . . And Schneider says, and Koresh later afterwards says, look,
we didn't lie. This is like you guys telling us you're not going
to turn off the lights or one thing or another and getting
overruled from above. We have our chain of command, you have your
chain of command . . .
Jim Cavanaugh:
He gave us his word, that after the message was played . . .
Steve Schneider:
Uh . . . yes, but what if there is a higher power than you and I
that speaks to an individual? If there is a God in this universe,
and there are the laws of man, and there's the laws of God, and
this God that has led him all his life says to him "wait", what do
you do?
Jim Cavanaugh:
But, Steve . . . is David . . . Is David a man of his word?
Steve Schneider:
He always has been.
Jim Cavanaugh:
What does trust mean to you?
Steve Schneider:
Exactly what it means to you. I mean, he was told to wait, and he
says the same God that showed him the Seals is the same one that
said "wait".
Jim Cavanaugh:
That could change. That could change in a minute, right?
Steve Schneider:
Exactly.
James Cavanaugh, ATF Special Agent:
He tricked us, he fooled us, he played with us, He couldn't leave
this place where he was god with unlimited sexual favors, unlimited
being the messiah and walk out to a cold jail cell. He couldn't do
it at the last minute.
Graeme Craddock, Branch Davidian Survivor:
. . . I've no doubt that among the negotiation team and yourselves
believe that David Koresh was pulling some sort of a scam, or he
was lying or was stalling, but you've got to understand the mind of
the Branch Davidians inside, we genuinely believed him.
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
When the FBI said that five times Koresh promised to come out and
didn't. Dr. Arnold, Dr. Tabor and I sent a message to them. We
said, show us the five times. We can't find them in the
negotiation transcripts. We think they're making that up.
Dick J. Reavis:
We find no incidences, those of us who've listened to the
negotiation tapes and studied the transcripts, of Koresh lying. On
March the second, he said he was corning out and then said God told
him not to. If any lies were told, it was that. And we would have
to know what God said to Koresh in order to call that a lie.
Reporter:
Do you people believe that Koresh is actually talking to God?
Bill Hartnett, Deputy Director, BATF:
Koresh believes he's talking to God. ( big press laughter)
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
. . . the FBI wasn't prepared to share David Koresh's contention
that we should wait on God to resolve this. The FBI is God. It's
gonna decide how this is gonna be resolved.
David Koresh, Killed April 19, 1993:
. . . bringin' these tanks and stuff around here, I'll tell you
what, bein' an American first, I'm the kind of guy that I'll stand
in front of a tank, you can run over me, but I'll be bitin' one of
the tracks. No one's gonna hurt me or my family. That's American
policy here.
Stuart H. Wright, Editor, Armageddon at Waco:
-Agent Pete Smerick, who was in charge of drawing up the
psychological profile on Koresh counseled a cautious, non
confrontational approach with Koresh in four memos written to
senior FBI officials between March 3rd and March 8h . According to
W. Smerick, FBI superiors pressured him to change his assessment to
justify a more confrontational approach.
Jack Zimmermann, Attorney for Steve Schneider:
They would do things like play sound tapes of rabbits being
slaughtered or Nancy Sinatra And then they would bring out lights
at night and not that Nancy Sinatra was always that bad, . . . the
point was this: They were trying to have sleep disturbance and they
were trying to take somebody they viewed to be unstable to start
with and then they were trying to drive him crazy. And then they
get mad when he does something they think is irrational.
Mt. Carmel Night
Nancy Sinatra recording (These Boots Were Made for Walkin'):
You've been playin' somewhere you shouldn't a been playin'.
And I know you think you'll never get burned.
I just got me a brand new box matches, yeah.
And what he knows you ain't had time to learn.
These boots are made for walking.
And that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these boots
Are gonna walk all over you!
(FBI Home Video)
FBI Agent Camera Man:
This one here is quite a specimen I tell ya. In all my years
involved with SWAT I've never seen a gentleman like this that I've
learned so much from in just the short time It is just
. . . awesome is the only word to describe him.
FBI HRT man lying in truck:
"Honed! Honed to a fine edge . . . Honed to kill!"
FBI Agent Camera Man:
Yes, that's right he's just like Rambo out here himself
Alan A. Stone, Harvard University:
This was an abandonment of negotiation strategy, an abandonment of
the opportunity to get more people out, of the opportunity to bring
in a third party negotiator who would speak the same language.
When the FBI finally could've realized that rather than being in a
negotiating position, they had become the enemy.
Bob Ricks, FBI Spokesman:
Yes, right here.
Reporter:
Is there a consideration to use psychological warfare? Have you
discussed it at all?
Ricks:
I don't know what psychological warfare is.
Reporter:
It was reported in the paper that you would play loud music.
Reporters:
Keep bright lights on the compound all night, too.
Reporter:
Is that a possibility?
Ricks:
We will not discuss tactics of that sort, but I would say that
chances are minimal of doing that kind of activity.
Alan A. Stone, Harvard University:
When I first was asked to be involved as a member of the panel, I
thought the main problem was going to be understanding the
psychology of the people inside the compound. But as I got into it
I quickly became aware that the psychology of the people outside
the compound was more important to an understanding. They needed
to take control and the tactical people in particular needed to
show them who's boss.
Bob Ricks, FBI Spokesman:
We are trying to reinforce to them that we are in charge of the
situation. Ah, that the compound is under the complete control of
the government. It is, in fact, no longer their compound. That we
have the ability to exercise whatever control we want over that
compound, and we will do that at various times to demonstrate to
them the fact that they are impotent in their ability to control
their everyday lives.
Clive Doyle, Branch Davidian Survivor:
They cut off the electricity which meant that most of the fresh or
frozen foods that we had either had to be eaten real quick or were
wasted because they spoiled. As the 51 days got well under way, of
course, we had no water. The only water we ended up having toward
the end was Rain water which we would have to collect in buckets by
putting them out a window or something on the backside.
James D. Tabor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte:
In the Davidians' theology, the thing that could prevent a peaceful
resolution would be for the outside to play the part of Babylon as
they called it- Babylon representing in the Bible the fortunes of
evil against good. The more they followed psy ops
tactics--psychological warfare --- and their pressure tactics, and
demonizing the group and tantalizing the group and pressuring the
group, that led to the Davidians thinking, perhaps this is the
final confrontation. Perhaps we are to die courageously like
martyrs. Perhaps we're not going to come out of this OK.
James D. Tabor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte:
So they're inside, seeing themselves as the persecuted, oppressed,
martyred people of God. Outside are forces that are, from their
viewpoint, pressuring, lying, conniving, using all kind of tactics
to try to manipulate them. Babylon! In other words, as they saw
it, the forces of the world.
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
. . . at one point, the FBI asked them do they have fire
extinguishers and Schneider sends someone to check and comes back
with the report that there's only one fire extinguisher in the
building. The FBI negotiators response is: Somebody ought to buy
some fire insurance.
Steve Schneider:
We realize that you have the ability, and it's not below you
people, to do something like to erase all evidences. Why do you
have the press so far back? You can give me any kind of crap you
want, I know, you know, the reason we're not talking to the press
is you people have gotta cover your butts from what you did and
that's what's goin' on here. First of all you've got 'em so far
away, that scares the heck out of these people, and you know why,
of course. Because if any . . . if anybody wanted to you could
come in here and burn the place down, kill all the people, what
evidences would be left?
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent in Charge:
The question was, "Will we let the pool camera up close?" Any
closer than you are. We did, we went down the road. We stopped at
a place where you could still see the compound. That was not
accidental. We made sure that you could still see the compound.
We could've put you where you didn't have any sight. We didn't do
that. The reason we don't want a camera there is they watch
television and they watch us approach if we do anything. We're not
going to assault the place. But anything we do around there to get
control. That is precisely why you can't have a camera there. OK?
Steve Schneider:
Who's controlling these guys? FBI negotiator:
Give . . . give me a moment.
Steve Schneider:
Alright.
FBI negotiator:
You know, sometimes people are in that have different interests.
The guys that gravitate toward, you know, riding in tanks, jumping
out of airplanes, and stuff like that are a little different mind
set than you and 1, right?
Steve Schneider:
I agree with you, I agree.
FBI negotiator:
So when they get a chance to use a Bradley, probably half of them
have never been in a Bradley before . . .
Steve Schneider:
Reminded me of a lotta kids in there . . .
FBI negotiator: Absolutely.
Steve Schneider:
. . . have an opportunity . . .
FBI negotiator:
Hey, let's drive this baby and see how it works.
Steve Schneider:
Sure, but somebody's gotta be above these guys. Those vehicles,
and what doing, do not show what is coming out of the mouths of
some of you guys.
Clive Doyle, Branch Davidian Survivor:
They were mooning the women for instance- they would drop their
pants and bend over and bare their rear end to people that were
looking out the windows, which was, you know, not a situation that
some of the women or even some of the men took too lightly in the
sense that do we want to send our children out to these kind of
people or do we trust this kind of an attitude, you know.
Steve Schneider:
I mean, if you got guys out there right now pulling their pants
down, men that are mature, that are sticking their butts out in the
air and flipping the finger.
FBI negotiator:
I have no . . . I have no idea who that is. And, whoever that is
should be fired. And if we can find out we will fire them.
Steve Schneider:
But the spirit and the attitude of these men of yours..
David Thibodeau, Branch Davidian Survivor:
What the commanders did, what the people in the tanks did just
totally showed there was no respect. Let me give you an example
now that we brought this up. We had a burial for one of the people
out front. Peter Gent was buried out front and the tanks ran over
his grave. Over and over and over again, just totally like it
wasn't even there. They knew that's where we would bury him. They
just kept running over it and over it. And we were disgusted with
that. We talked about that quite a bit.
Nicole Gent, Killed April 19, 1993:
The ATF came in and they shot my brother. They left his body, they
wouldn't take his body out and bury it. He'd been buried out in
front of the property, you know. I mean, I thought this was the
country of, you know, freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
whatever. And just human decency, it just doesn't seem to exist.
Steve Schneider:
In the last five days, your people have run that grave over and
. . . definitely the tracks have sunk a couple feet. The body's
probably crushed, I know it's going to have to be exhumed.
Byron Sage:
But Steve, I mentioned to you yesterday that that wasn't
intentional.
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent in Charge:
. . . It was just part of life for them. Sometimes they would
complain just because it gave them something to complain about.
But at the end, the sounds, the activities of the tanks meant
nothing to them,
Theresa Nobrega, Killed April 19, 1993:
To my family and friends I'd just like to say I'm fine. I know
you're all worried about us. But I'd just like you to know we're
fine right now. And, everything is in the hands of God right now
and we're just waiting on God. Whatever happens, you know, it's
the way God wants it to be.
Alan A. Stone, Harvard University:
They saw all this as working from a military point of view because
the people inside the compound, the Branch Davidians, weren't
shooting back. So they saw themselves as winning the battle as
they tightened the noose. But what they didn't realize was, we're
driving them to the point of desperation, just like our negotiating
behavioral science people warned us early on.
News Conference
Bob Ricks, FBI Special Agent:
One person was recommending we play achy-breaky heart continuously.
(Press laughter)
TV News:
Tonight's painting is brought to you by . . .
TV News:
We're the press.
Clive Doyle, Branch Davidian Survivor:
If they thought we were all brainwashed and such a bunch of
crazies, why would the FBI push David or the rest of us to the
limit? Why would you bombard the building day and night with
lights and music and noises and wear these people out, not knowing
how they'd react? Did they want to create an incident? Did they
want us to come out crazy and begin shooting so they'd have an
excuse to gun us down? We didn't know.
Reporter: What about reports David Koresh was holding people inside and against their will?
Bob Ricks, FBI Spokesman:
We're trying to appeal to Mr. Koresh to let those people go who
want to go.
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
Everyone in Mt. Carmel was free to leave. Though theologically,
the situation is complex. Yes, you're free to jump out of Noah's
Ark and onto the land that's fixin' to be flooded. People in
Mt. Carmel point out that Noah and his family got into the Ark
seven days before the rains began. They were expecting God to use
fire this time. And they thought they were in the Ark. But
everyone was free to leave. Some did . . . Anyone could have left.
But theologically it was not a good idea. You were risking your
soul if you left.
Clive Doyle, Branch Davidian Survivor:
. . . what we saw of those that did come out, where they were being
sent to jail, the adults, even elderly women in their seventies
were actually being indicted for murder or charged . . .
Slaughter:
This was what you were told when people came out?
Doyle:
We saw it and hear it on the news.
Slaughter:
I see.
BD sign: FBI BROKE NEGOTIATIONS . . . WE WANT PRESS (: 10)
Steve Schneider:
Dick, over the radio there's been a number of people that have
wanted to come in and be a negotiator between ourselves and you. I
do believe it would be in the best interests of all if there was a
new person in between yourselves and ourselves. We'd about take
anybody.
FBI negotiator (Dick):
OK.
Steve Schneider:
But right now it . . . it seems like we're coming to a stalemate,
you know and we're not getting anywhere . . .
Dick: Who would you like to have here, when you guys come out who would you like to invite here?
Steve Schneider:
No no no no, you're . . . you've . . . boy you've got rocks in your
ears, Dick.
Dick:
OK, explain it to me. I'm sorry.
Steve Schneider:
You're saying when we come out. I'm talking' about right now.
Let's get somebody in between us right now to do some negotiating.
James H. Brannon, Attorney:
We have a woman who believes in her heart and soul that she can get
her grandson to lay down his arms and come out.
David Koresh's Grandmother:
Well I'm his grandmother and he's my grandson. All my
grandchildren are good kids because I've taught them well.
James H. Brannon, Attorney for David Koresh's Grandmother:
And so I approached and told them I was there and I'd like to speak
to the agent in charge and I was a lawyer and I had David Koresh's
grandmother with me and I wanted to see about talking to them. And
after a few minutes another one came up to me and he was obviously
the one in charge and he was very surly. Declined to give me any
information at all. So I started to leave and just as I left and
turned my back and started walking toward my van. I heard a voice
say, coming from one of those people, I don't know which one. But
one of them said, "I hope she has told him good-bye. " That was
the mentality of the people who were guarding the gates. Those
were federal law enforcement authorities. And their attitude was,
we are going to get revenge against David Koresh. And if that
means we have to eliminate all of them in there, that's just fine
too. That was the attitude they had.
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., US Congress, Maryland ( R ):
What could have been done to get the Davidians out of that compound
without blood shed?
Dick DeGuerin, Attorney for David Koresh:
We were on the way to doing that. On April 14' there was a major
breakthrough. And that breakthrough was David Koresh's letter to
me which I promptly gave to the FBI that said that he had received
his mission, that he was working on writing his interpretation of
the Seven Seals and that everyone inside was relieved that they
didn't have to die now. That the prophecies were not being
fulfilled now and that this would be resolved.
-- Page 30 --
Dick J. Reavis, Author, The Ashes of Waco:
. . . People don't understand how important that was. David Koresh
and his people believed that God's message for our generation could
not be written and should not be written. And David Koresh had
never before written down his ideas. He believed he had received a
message from God saying, now David, write. Before I told you not
to, now I'm tellin' you you can.
Philip Arnold, Reunion Institute, Houston:
He waited 51 days and then he said the word came to him and said
write. And he wrote. This was brought out the day of the fire by
one of the survivors. He was keeping his promise of April 14'h.
We believe they all would have come out safely.
William H. Zeliff, Jr., US Congress, New Hampshire (R):
This (Zeliff holds Seven Seals writing) was pulled out of the fire,
the tapes were, and then this then was written up as evidence that
he was working on that message on the seven seals.
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent:
All they had to do was say that we have a disk and we are going to
be sending it out.
Steve Chabot:
US Congress, Ohio (R) Last week, Treasury Secretary Rubin called a
Democrat member of this Committee and asked him not to ask any
questions that might be embarrassing to the Clinton Administration.
Now, I think that is truly politicizing these particular hearings
and was uncalled for.
Janet Reno, US Attorney General, Clinton Administration:
What I was faced with was a situation where the negotiators said we
think we have reached an impasse, nobody else is coming out
voluntarily. We looked at the entire situation and we made the
best judgement we could. I am very satisfied that in the
information furnished to me by the FBI I was informed.
Webster Hubbell, Former Associate Attorney General, Clinton
Administration:
When the FBI advised me of their plan and the possibility and the
possibility of the insertion of gas, I did notify the White House
Counsel. And I kept in contact through the White House Counsel.
And I'm sure the White House Counsel advised the President . . . It
wasn't until, I believe, Friday or Saturday that the decision was
made to go ahead. And at that point, the Attorney General did call
the President of the United States and I was in the room when she
made that call.
William H. Zeliff, Jr., US Congress, New Hampshire (R):
We're missing some of your telephone logs, particularly April 17th,
18th and 19th and our problem is that they've all been redacted.
Is there any chance that we could get those?
Webster Hubbell:
Nobody's ever asked me. But I have a copy of these same logs and
you are welcome to them as ' far as I am concerned. Except, I have
to tell you, the 17th and 18th were Saturday and Sunday and so
therefore, there wouldn't be any.
Female Reporter:
It's gonna take three or four days for each one of these. And we
have six more Seals to go. Are you all prepared, maybe 18, twenty
more days than that to stay out here?
Bob Ricks, FBI Spokesman:
The question is, how long are we prepared. And, the, the first
seal is not done yet. Mr. Schneider says that he is going to have
to edit every one. Mr. Koresh does not have anymore than a ninth
grade education so he does not write very well. So everything will
have to be rewritten. So I figure maybe four or five months, tops.
[press corps laughter]
Steven Schiff, US Congress, New Mexico (R):
If you had believed, that when he finished the manuscripts he would
have come out, would you have waited and not recommended the
attack?
Jeffrey Jamar, FBI Special Agent:
Absolutely.
Jack Zimmermann, Attorney for Steve Schneider:
They're talking to Schneider on the phone about the progress that
Mr. Koresh is making and he tells 'em, I've seen 28 to 30 pages of
the draft. I have not seen the smooth yet. My job is to edit
it. And they ask him, how long is your part gonna take, and he
says, my part will be real quick. And then the next day they ask
him, how's it going? Where are you? And he says, he's finished
the First Seal and he's working on the Second Seal. And they go
into trying to get him to agree to let the negotiators give
something to their boss to show good faith. Will you send out the
First Seal as soon as it's typed and smooth? And they go into this
lengthy discussion about well, I want to send it out all as a
whole, but if it will make you feel better, I'll agree to do that.
And Koresh personally agrees.
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Many people who distrust the mainstream media have turned to alternate news sources, some of which are Internet based. Unfortunately, many of these alternate sources of news simply promote an alternate series of lies. These alternate lies are of course dressed up as "exposés." But you can easily tell the phonies from the real thing. The information in the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum is an acid test.
Does your news source promote Mike McNulty's video, Waco: The Rules of Engagement or wring its hands because the Davidian law suit against the government failed? (See Waco Documentary Is A Hoax! and Waco Suits for Waco Suckers.) Does your alternate news source carry promotional pieces about rebuilding the Davidian church in Waco and mouth nice words about "healing"? (See The Cover-up Church.)
Remember, since ancient times, inquiries into questionable deaths have started with the bodies of the victims. If your news source won't give you an honest and full account of the forensic information on Waco, or if it does not have a link to the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum ... your alternate news has failed a fundamental acid test.
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