FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25, 1999
Private Attorney General Urges FBI and
Janet Reno to Terminate Waco Review
by
Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
All Rights Reserved without Prejudice
San Francisco. Paul Andrew Mitchell, Candidate for the House of
Representatives and the Private Attorney General in the cases of
People v. United States, has publicly admonished Janet Reno and
FBI Director Louis Freeh for pretending objectivity in their
upcoming review of the Waco Holocaust, and the deaths of several
innocent children there.
"Janet Reno has already admitted her complicity in this
tragedy," stressed Mitchell. "She is hardly in a position to be
objective about the facts of the case, or the many laws which
were broken during that siege."
Mitchell recently addressed a letter to Judge Alex Kozinski,
sitting on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, to express his
specific intent to petition a Texas court for an ORDER to Reno,
and possibly other unnamed accomplices, to show cause why she and
they should not be charged with being an accessory to murder in
the first degree.
Mitchell also expressed his intent, acting on behalf of the
People of the United States of America, to convey their answers,
if any, to a State grand jury lawfully convened in McLellan
County, Texas, where the town of Waco is situated.
"It is clear from our careful review of the pertinent human
Rights treaties, that extreme caution is required whenever
official violence could threaten the safety and well-being of any
minor children," explained Mitchell. "In particular, those
treaties strictly forbid the execution of minors."
Mitchell here refers to the explicit prohibitions in the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights against
execution of minors in any countries who have ratified this
Covenant.
Article 6 of the Covenant states: "Death sentences shall
not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of
age and shall not be carried out on pregnant women."
The United States Senate finally ratified this Treaty, but
only after a long, and embarrassing delay. The Supremacy Clause
in the U.S. Constitution raises this Treaty to the status of
supreme Law throughout America.
"A number of pertinent Texas State laws also appear to have
been violated, among them a host of provisions in the Texas Penal
Code," Mitchell argued. "It is a criminal offense in Texas to
engage in deadly conduct," he added. In many States, deadly
conduct is also known as reckless endangerment, and falls under
the doctrine of criminal negligence.
"No matter what rumors might have been circulating about
David Koresh, there is no evidence whatsoever that he, or any of
his family of associates, ever waived their fundamental Right to
due process of law," Mitchell argued. "Torching that building
was tantamount to summary punishment, which is strictly forbidden
by the U.S. Constitution."
Mitchell is known for having brought an unpublicized suit
against the City of San Marcos, and other official co-defendants
in central Texas, for organized government abuses of the Social
Security Number ("SSN"). Mitchell alleged felony violations of
federal laws, when he was arrested, and denied essential
services, for refusing to disclose an SSN. See 42 U.S.C. 408.
The verified criminal complaint in that case charged the
owners of a telephone answering service with deadly conduct, for
a written policy of scheduling tow trucks ahead of medical calls
made from hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units. A
local fire captain was the co-owner of that answering service.
"The people I met in central Texas," Mitchell added, "were
almost too horrified to think straight about the violent deaths
of these children. Heavy psychological defense mechanisms
appeared to dominate, whenever I would broach the subject with
residents I met there."
"I am one of many Americans who have seen the film footage
of SWAT team members climbing a ladder to the second story window
of the Branch Davidian Complex. It is clear to me, from the
sheer volume of gun fire at this precise moment, that those
officers failed to do everything possible to protect the safety
of the children there, to say nothing of the adults who also
perished," Mitchell added.
Mitchell is here referring to video coverage of the siege,
showing an exchange of gun fire after SWAT team members had
reached a one-story roof. One officer's gun appears to misfire
into his own leg, and bullet holes can be seen forming in the
wall adjacent to a second-story window.
Separate footage appears to show flames spewing from the
cannon of a tank, after it had punctured a large hole in the
building's exterior wall, near ground level.
Mitchell has also authorized electronic messages to certain
Internet contacts, to express his intent to intervene, on behalf
of the People of the USA, in the wrongful death case which is
already proceeding in federal court.
"The application of these human Rights treaties is an
exercise which should clarify the historical record, and pinpoint
the responsible parties," Mitchell urged.
A final decision on his application for leave to intervene,
must await careful consideration by the current parties to that
litigation, and their counsel.
Paul Andrew Mitchell can be reached via email services at
the Supreme Law Library on the Internet: http://supremelaw.org.
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