"We were more or less looking at it like a humanitarian mission," said Orchowski, 55, a former police officer in Georgia who is now the assistant special agent in charge of the ATF's Houston field office. "That meant they had never had a candy bar. A bunch of us had gone to Walmart ... In our vests, there were candy bars we planned on giving to the kids." [More]And after that didn't work out, HRT made S'mores...
[Via Roger J]
David Koresh was know to be a regular jogger. Warrants could have been served peacefully with no bloodshed. But that would not satisfy the need for a high-profile agency take down. Read "No More Wacos" by Koppel and Blackman for well-documented details on government misfeasance.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amazon.com/No-More-Wacos-Enforcement-wellesley/dp/1573921254
Oh - and a jury acquitted the Davidians on murder charges, but you won't hear that in the official narrative.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-27/news/mn-27969_1_lesser-charges/2
Yep. Plus he'd offered to talk with them and they would not, and the "child molestation" accusations were the purview of Texas LE to handle, not the feds.
ReplyDeleteAdd to that the metal front door which would have shown shots going in "mysteriously" disappeared never to be seen again and DOJ refused to allow x-ray tests of the weapons to substantiate illegal conversion allegations.
It is good that they promise never to forget. I have no doubt they learned, and are remembering, the wrong lesson. The lesson they should have learned is,
ReplyDelete"We shouldn't attack peaceable citizens in their home on a Sunday morning, in a violent para-military manner, on the slimmest of evidence, when they have not shown they are prone to violence and have not harmed their neighbors in any way."
Or, maybe even, "Since our duties and responsibilities require that we violate our Oath of Office, maybe we shouldn't be doing this job at all."
Middle America will also Never Forget.