Waco - The Rules of Engagement

Wow, I just watched this. The government only lies. They are all sitting next to God waiting for their revenge against the ungodly actions. I'm trying to be nice and it's very hard. The people who died I am going to pray for them on the 19th. None of them should've been murdered. Blessings to everyone

Really good watching on Waco

Koresh's and Schneider's lawyers are shown testifying to Congress, providing the arguments and facts that many slanted programs only showing the government side (other than to ridicule the church group) omit. You also hear multiple accounts from the ATF and FBI side. One of the negotiators named Jim, heard several times in the film, displayed to Congress a smarmy tone of voice evincing no sincerity at all; it is hard to believe the religious group put up with him for however long it was they had to talk to him instead some of the other negotiators. At least one of the government witnesses admits to Congress that false information was given by the government at times. A portrait of an avoidable, vindictive, ham-fisted massacre and callous disregard for life by the government blamed on a church group with unorthodox marriage customs emerges. The initial raid could have been easily avoided by picking up Koresh for "gun violations" when he was out and about on walks out into the community, but that avenue is not opted for when a high profile raid for publicity could be made for the cameras in Feb. 1993. It is also shown that Koresh invited them the summer before the raid to inspect his group's guns they sold to make income, but that avenue as deliberately turned down. The original goal was to make a show of state force and power to enforce morals using federal agents whose authority was only over guns and drugs. Then a vengeful follow up by the government frightening the children with scary sounds at night in advance of bashing into the building with tanks. The facts are laid out showing the government did not act reasonably in its assaults on the church community members, who were looking forward to soon leaving after the book agreed to would be finished in two weeks; their drinking water supplies were nearly gone. Instead the original crime scene was destroyed in a rush, as tanks demolished the building and most of the witnesses of the original raid were eliminated, with children killed while hiding from the agents and soldiers assaulting the building. A sad story indeed. One or two other films also discuss these themes, including Waco: A New Revelation (from 1999) and one of the more recent tv dramatic series on the topic.

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." So the saying goes, and the fate of the Branch Davidians at the hands of the Clinton/Reno Justice Department is a perfect example.The attack on the Mt. Carmel compound, at Waco, Texas, began as an attempt by the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms division of Treasury to make an example of the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians and their leader David Koresh, and to achieve some favorable publicity after the black eye it had got from the public from its heavy handed treatment at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where agents shot and killed an innocent woman holding an infant, the family dog and the teenage boy in the family when they stumbled upon the agents surveiling the property in the surrounding woods.At Ruby Ridge, the motive of the federal agents was that the husband and father refused their offer to serve as an undercover snitch for them in the local community of white supremacists. To induce him to do so, they had an undercover man get him to cut down a shotgun to an illegal length. It was an inadvertent eighth of an inch shorter than the legal length. His refusal to cooperate brought the wrath of the government down on his head, and the FBI in to back up the ATF. It was an FBI sniper who shot his wife to death in the doorway of their home, while she held their infant to her breast.At Waco, they had unsubstantiated information that the Branch Davidians possessed some fully automatic weapons. As it turned out, none were ever found in the ashes, but even if they had been, the "crime" was failure to pay a $200 tax required to own such weapons. The ATF got a search warrant, and with it as their cover, rather than knock on the door and serve it, they went in shooting.Later, of course, they claimed sexual abuse, rape, and child abuse was their motive--crimes which they have absolutrely no legal authority to address since they are essentially tax collecting agents, and which in any event had already been investigated by the State of Texas with negative results.So, in a long, drawn out, mishandled, botched raid and its aftermath, which took days to resolve, they managed to kill nearly 100 men, women and children and burn the compound to the ground.The Congress of the United States whitewashed the whole event. This video, however, documents the bureaucratic lies and misdeeds in great detail in great and damning detail, and demonstrates clearly why it is necessary for the people to have better sources of information than the major news media and the government. It also shows what weasels our elected representratives can be, as best demonstrated by Charlie Schumer, now a U.S. Senator.Joseph (Joe) Pierre, USN (Ret.)author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenanceand other books