Time: Mon Oct 28 16:22:17 1996 To: "Cravens, Roger D." <rbg3@CCDOSA1.EM.CDC.GOV> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: refused for cause Cc: Bcc: At 12:52 PM 10/28/96 EST, you wrote: > >Text Excerpt 4: Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum > >Entire html text of the Museum currently available at >home.overthe.net/pub/showtime/wm1-1f01.zip. Excerpted by >Carol Valentine from >http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum. Images omitted. > > That's Not Murphy's Law > >(In the preceding two excerpts, we have seen that the >February 28, 1993 raid was designed to fail, providing >an excuse for the use of massive military force against >a group of civilians under the rubric of "law enforcement.") > >With this perspective on the purpose of the raid, we will examine >whether the Davidians rose to the bait in the upcoming excerpt, >"Who Struck John?" > >But before we do, other details should be mentioned: > > - We are asked to believe another manifestation of Murphy's law. > The Treasury Report tells us that early on the morning of > February 28, local Waco TV station KWTX cameraman Jim Peeler, > on his way to cover the event, "became lost" on "back roads." > There he coincidentally met a letter carrier who, > coincidentally, was a Branch Davidian. Mr. Peeler asked > directions and coincidentally mentioned the impending raid; > naturally the letter carrier, Davidian David Jones, went to > the Mt. Carmel Center and told David Koresh about upcoming > events, as we might expect (Treasury Report, pg. 85). > > - We have been asked to believe a lot, but this is beyond the > pale: The location where Mr. Peeler became "lost" was within > sight of the Mt. Carmel Center! > > - That encounter on the "back roads" was witnessed by one of the > ATF undercover agents in casual clothes, accompanied by the > "forward observers ... in ATF battle dress utilities" and > "their arrest support teams," who, we are asked to believe, > were coincidentally on their way to a hay barn behind the Mt. > Carmel Center (pg. 88). > > - The Treasury Report expresses no curiosity about how a local > news reporter, covering an important local news story at a > well-known local landmark, could become "lost" within eyesight > of his destination. > > - The narration of this incident and speculations on its effect > is spread over seven pages in the Treasury Report (pgs. 82 to > 88), including a map and schedule of which reporter was where > when and what car he was driving. The drafters of that report > worked very hard to convince the readers of the incident. > > - In fact, the number of pages in the Treasury Report consumed > in narrating all the dumb moves of government planners and > agents in the planning and execution of this investigation > overstates the case. Government bureaus are notoriously > reluctant to admit to their own errors. The Treasury Report, > however, is replete with such "confessions." > > The Final Tip > >We have already seen that the ATF deployed a number of very obvious >undercover agents across the street from the Mt. Carmel Center, and >that David Koresh had told them that he was watching them with >binoculars. > >One of these agents, Robert Rodriguez, had been taking Bible >lessons from Koresh in order to spy on him. On the morning of >February 28, the Waco Tribune-Herald had just (coincidentally) >published a second inflammatory article on David Koresh in a series >entitled the "Sinful Messiah." Rodriguez visited Koresh to assess >what effect the negative PR was having, whether the publication >Tribune-Herald's publication of Sinful Messiah had incited Koresh >and his followers to take up arms or otherwise increase their >security measures. The planners were still not sure Koresh had been >effectively tipped off. > >While Rodriguez was taking his Bible lesson from Koresh, David >Jones allegedly returned to the Mt. Carmel Center and gave the news >of the impending raid to his father, Perry Jones. Jones interrupted >the Bible discussion, called David Koresh out of the room on the >pretext that he had a phone call, and told him the news. When >Koresh came back into the room, he allegedly told Rodriguez >"they're coming, Robert, the time has come." > >We are asked to believe that Rodriguez was "shocked" when he heard >the news; he became so agitated, he contemplated jumping out a >window in order to get out before the ATF arrived (Treasury Report, >pg. 89). Rodriguez suddenly remembered a breakfast appointment, >bolted out of his Bible lesson, jumped in his truck, and drove back >to the undercover house. When he got to the undercover house, >Rodriguez found the window was raised. A camera was in one of the >windows, and it was clearly visible from the outside of the house >(doubtlessly within the scope of David Koresh's binoculars.) > >When Rodriguez took fast leave of the Mt. Carmel Center he acted >like what he was-- a man in the know, getting out of the way of a >massacre--a man who preferred to be elsewhere when it happened. >Just in case everything else failed, the Davidians watched a house >guest suddenly remember a "breakfast appointment" in the middle of >a Bible lesson and make a mad dash to safety. > >The ATF plan was both murderous and suicidal. The evidence >indicates that the "bungling" was intended to forewarn the >Davidians of the impending attack, to provoke them into defending >themselves, and to provide them with easy targets. The ATF were led >to slaughter to provide the excuse for the first test of the >National Response Plan. > >It was not Murphy's law. It was a set-up. It was a domestic Gulf of >Tonkin incident. And as we shall see later in Who Struck John?, it >included some powerful backup plans to ensure its success. > >Next: Text Excerpt 5, Who Struck John? > >http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum >or http://206.55.8.10/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum >SkyWriter@Public-Action.com >Postal Address: Carol A. Valentine, Public Action, Inc., PO Box >10933, Burke, VA 22009 > >Copyright 1996 by Carol A. Valentine, on loan to Public Action, >Inc. All commercial rights are reserved. Full statement of terms >and conditions for copying and redistribution is available in the >Museum Library. "Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum," "SkyWriter," >and the skywriting logo are trademarks of Public Action Inc. > > > >Carol A. Valentine >President >Public Action, Inc. > >________________________________________________ > >TERRORISM: The use of terror, violence, and intimidation to achieve an end. >A system of government that uses terror to rule. (American Heritage >Dictionary, 1976) > >Visit the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum >http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum >http://206.55.8.10/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum | > >NOW-- WHO ARE THE *REAL* TERRORISTS??? > >________________________________________________ > > > > >
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