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These two photos were taken inside the concrete room. As crime scene
photos they have little validity because they are not photographs of the
crime scene; the interior of the concrete room underwent physical changes
each day after the April 19 fire, occasioned by the damaged and crumbling
concrete roof. Had standard techniques for the preservation of evidence
been used, the roof would have been shored up immediately after the fire
abated, and real crime scene photos might have been produced. (see Plausible
Denial: The Texas Rangers).
The first, Interior
of Concrete Room Showing Refrigerator, is a picture of the twisted
wreckage of the walk-in refrigerator. Note the two red flags indicating
the presence of bodies on the surface (buried bodies would not be visible
to mark with flags). According to Dr. Peerwani, the surface bodies were
removed early in the recovery process--April 22-23. The Autopsy Reports
of those found on the surface show that the victims died variously of smoke
inhalation, gunshot wound, stab wounds, or burns. (See Mt. Carmel Does
30, 31 A,
31 DE, 32,
33, 47,
and 49). Their deaths were not due to falling
debris from the "collapsed bunker."
On April 20, just after he arrived on the scene, Sgt. Coffman said the
hole in the roof made by the explosion was small, about 18 inches to 24
inches in diameter. The steel-reinforced concrete that made up the roof
was approximately six inches thick. Yet the rubble we see in the picture
appears to contain sizable chunks of debris. Given the diameter of the
hole (18-24 inches) and the depth of the concrete (six inches), the chunks
of debris are too numerous and too large to have come from that hole. The
large, chunky debris must have come from a source other than the roof.
The second picture shows another aspect
of the concrete room. (Interior of Concrete
Room Showing Light Patterns). In this photo, we see one red flag indicating
a surface body (buried bodies would not be visible). Dr. Peerwani testified
that the surface bodies were all removed early in the operation, April
22-23. Almost no daylight would have been available early in the recovery
operation because then the hole in the roof was only 18 inches to 24 inches
wide--quite small.
But there seems to have been plenty of light in the room when this picture
was taken. Note light pattern on left wall and in the left foreground,
and the round spot of light on the right. This spot on the right appears
to be the same general shape as the hole in the roof. The light patterns
on the left wall must be from other holes in the roof. This picture of
the concrete room must have been taken toward the time the structure was
demolished. At that time, of course, all of the surface bodies would long
since have been removed. The guns may have been removed too, for Sgt. Coffman
said it took just five days to clear the room.
The red flag then, is a prop. This photo, or another taken from a slightly
different angle, has been published a number of times as evidence that
the "bunker collapsed." The equation communicated by this photo is:
Bodies + collapsed roof = "They died when the bunker collapsed."
According to Sgt. Coffman's testimony, pieces of concrete gradually eroded
from the roof when the evidence was being collected. The several clusters
of rods sticking up along the back are guns, which had been placed by the
Davidians on wooden gun racks along the back wall, according to Sgt. Coffman.
These wooden racks had "little butt plates on the floor with the felt in
them for each individual weapon to set on," "Transcript, pgs. 919, 920."
It is perhaps surprising that wooden gun racks and the felt "butt plates"
survived a fire which caused the severe damage to the refrigerator and
incinerated the bodies.
In the arrangement Sgt. Coffman described, when the guns were in racks
they would have been lined up next to each other in a straight line. Had
the wooden racks burned, we might expect the guns to fall down helter-skelter,
the barrels falling outward towards the center of the room. Instead they
are standing up in clusters, and the barrels are facing the wall, as if
someone had arranged them in this order after the fire.
Perhaps the guns are props, too, placed there to remind us that the
Davidians owned guns. Hey.
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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The first, Interior
of Concrete Room Showing Refrigerator, is a picture of the twisted
wreckage of the walk-in refrigerator. Note the two red flags indicating
the presence of bodies on the surface (buried bodies would not be visible
to mark with flags). According to Dr. Peerwani, the surface bodies were
removed early in the recovery process--April 22-23. The Autopsy Reports
of those found on the surface show that the victims died variously of smoke
inhalation, gunshot wound, stab wounds, or burns. (See Mt. Carmel Does
30, 31 A,
31 DE, 32,
33, 47,
and 49). Their deaths were not due to falling
debris from the "collapsed bunker."
The second picture shows another aspect
of the concrete room. (
