Waco Massacre Never Again!

*The Fourth Amendment found in the charred remains of the Davidian's home*

Treasury Department photos, diagrams and evidence of firing from helicopters.
The helicopters are responsible for the killing of 6 Davidian's on Feb. 28. 1993,
one of which had just finished nursing her infant, Jaydean Wendell.

*photo from Carol Moore's book "The Davidian Massacre"*
She is co-founder of Committee For Waco Justice *click to visit her site.

It was called "Operation Showtime".

They couldn't wait for the 4TH of July to have a light show, they had budget appropriations
meetings coming up next month, and this "show of force" would surely show Congress
and America how much we needed the BATF.
You may be saying to yourself, " This CAN'T be just a publicity stunt gone horribly wrong!"

Reality:

1995 Congressional Hearings:

Steven Schiff, US Congress, New Mexico (R):
I'd like to focus on the search warrant. First, it was put together, as a number of witnesses
have testified, in a prejudicial and inflammatory manner. And second . . . it clearly misstates the
US Code statute number for the offense charged, and, I think makes other technical mistakes in the law.
Which means to me it was put together in a sloppy fashion, Now you put together inflammatory with sloppy,
that means to me that ATF was in a hurry to make a big splash with something.

Stuart H. Wright, Editor, Armageddon at Waco:
Why was a warrant sought in the first place since David Koresh, on learning that he was
being investigated by the ATF, invited the agents on July 30th, 1992, through his gun dealer,
Henry McMahon, to come to his residence and inspect his firearms?

John B. Shadegg, US Congress, Arizona (R):
They never once followed up on that offer. Never even tried to follow up on that offer . . .

Robert Sanders, former ATF Deputy Director:
I can't imagine any circumstances when I would not take up such an offer. It indicates a mind-set.
Perhaps it was non willful. Perhaps what the ATF thought were violations of the law were
really things that Mr. Koresh thought were legal.

John B. Shadegg, US Congress, Arizona (R):
It suggests that what they really wanted to do was conduct a raid,
not make an arrest or conduct a search.

Robert Sanders:
In the opinion of the agents, you know, the planning for Waco and the manner in which it
was done was done for the purpose of publicity.

Bill Brewster, US Congress, Oklahoma (D):
Mr. Hartnett, there's a rumor, surely it's unfounded, that the publicity person or public relations
person for ATF had released some kind of a press communication the night before to media
around the country that something big was going to come down in Texas?

Bill Hartnett, former ATF Deputy Director:
Yes, and we heard that and . . she called . . . called the reporter to ask if he was going to be in.

Bill Brewster, US Congress, Oklahoma (D):
Why did she do that?

Bill Hartnett, former ATF Deputy Director:
She wanted to be able to get a hold of them in case we recovered these arms.

Bill Brewster, US Congress, Oklahoma (D):
Wouldn't there be ample time after they were recovered?

Bill Hartnett, former ATF Deputy Director:
Oh, Yes, I mean . . .

Sharon Wheeler, ATF Public Relations:
I just said we might have something going on here in Dallas this weekend and I'd like to
have a weekend contact number and that's what I was given.

Bill Brewster, US Congress, Oklahoma (D):
What was the purpose for contacting them? Were you actually seeking publicity for the agency?

Sharon Wheeler, ATF public Relations:
Absolutely not!

Bill Brewster, US Congress, Oklahoma (D):
OK. Then I guess I don't understand the reason for your call.

Sharon Wheeler on the left preparing hundreds of video tapes for the upcoming raid,
and at right testifying at Congressional hearings.

The ATF needed good publicity. With its appropriations hearings a week away, a successful raid
this size would produce major positive headlines to counter the ATF's reputation as a rogue agency
whose debacles blackened the reputations of other agencies. And it would scare the public enough about
fringe groups to create political pressure on Congress to increase its budget. Henry Ruth was one
of three independent reviewers of the Treasury Department's report on Waco.
Excerpt from transcript: Waco The Rules of Engagement

Henry S. Ruth, Jr., Independent Reviewer, US Treasury Report on Waco:
"At least part of the ATF motivation, even if it never rose to the surface of discussion, was to,
enforce the morals of our society. To enforce the psyche of right thinking by retaliating against these "odd" people."
Thought Police!

For more key information and learning, I suggest reading The Ashes Of Waco.

Click the book to go to his home page.

Dick J. Reavis gives a thorough and unbiased investigation on what really happened in Waco. One of the first books I read, when I began studying. This book is a must have for ANYone and everyone researching material for this massacre.

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