"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say
should be believed." -- Journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989)
With the recent revelation that FBI agents fired several
"incendiary devices" into the flimsy, wooden home, headquarters
and church of the Branch Davidian religious commune near Waco,
Texas, began renewed charges that the agencies and operatives
of the U.S. Government sparked the deadly conflagration that
left 80 men, women and children incinerated.
For over 6 years the U.S. Justice Department said no such
flammable canisters were used at any time on April 19, 1993. For
over six years government officials lied, insisting that the Branch
Davidians killed themselves by setting the fire in any orgy of suicidal
violence.
Now, who can really say? The "incendiary devices" story was
broken, not by a major U.S. newspaper, or network, but by an independent
filmmaker and journalist. The national media is just following somebody
else's play.
When the state attacked MOVE headquarters on May 13th, 1985, they
also blamed MOVE people, saying they set their own home and headquarters
aflame, incinerating themselves!
To date, almost 15 years after the police mass murder of MOVE men,
women, and children (11 people), the *only* person to serve even an hour
of jail was MOVE survivor Ramona Africa, "guilty" only of surviving.
Similarly, the WACO survivors have been socked into prison for
exorbitant periods of time, based, at least in part, on FBI and government
lies at trial.
According to at least one source, there was U.S. Army Delta Force
members active at WACO. The magazine "Soldier of Fortune", as early as
its August 1996 issue, reports Delta wasn't some background, observing
outfit. "SOF" cites sources which claim Delta actually talked U.S. Attorney
General Janet Reno into the chemical and armored assault on Mount Carmel.
The magazine quotes a Department of Defense attorney saying the Delta unit
members were "forward deployed" on the inner perimeter surrounding Mt.
Carmel, adding that Delta's role in the assault was "much more advisory
than observatory; active, not passive."
And now, the same government promises to, once again, "investigate"
Waco. We are witnessing the birth of but another, "new and improved,"
whitewash.
@1999 Mumia Abu-Jamal