•Evidence begins to roll in.
• The children were kept in a basement bunker, thought to be the safest place in the building.
• But it was flooded with CS gas & the CHILDREN in the basement all suffocated horribly, some spasmed so hard they SNAPPED THEIR OWN SPINES.

•ATF agents take selfies at the burned down building, after ripping the American flag off the Davidians’ flagpole & putting an ATF flag on it.

• Leaks start coming out....
• Koresh’s mother had come to visit him a day before the tank attack.
• One of the ATF agents told her “I hope you told him goodbye!” as she left.

• Despite govt. claims that nobody fired a single shot at the Davidians, spent brass casings are found at various positions which contradict those claims.
• Feds move in 2 weeks after the siege & bulldoze the entire site, destroying all remaining evidence

• The refrigeration trailer holding all the burned bodies for autopsy is sabotaged & they all rot. Can’t prove if anyone died of gunshots or not

(not suspicious at all)

• Survivors claim that the bullet holes in the front door of the building are proof that the ATF fired first, which proves that the Davidians were acting in self defense.
• The door was taken as evidence, but “GOES MISSING” right before the trial, only to turn up years later.

• Video footage taken by the Davidians shows bullet holes coming down through the roof, contradicting govt. claims that no gunfire came from helicopters overhead
• “It’s inadmissible”, says the judge.

• No illegal weapons of any kind were found at the compound (the entire reason for the no-knock siege in the first place). Surviving Davidians on trial were innocent of the original charge.
• Most go to prison anyway, being blamed for the fire & deaths of 4 ATF agents.

Years later....
• A documentary crew gets access to the Waco evidence locker.
• Finds *INCENDIARY GRENADES* in baggies, mismarked as benign items.
• The bags are tagged according to where they were found in the wreckage.
• They were found WHERE THE FIRES WERE STARTED

• Serial #’s on the grenades show they belonged to the FBI.
• Retired DELTA-force operators admit that they were at Waco, “advising” the assault team.

• Thermal camera footage shot from a helicopter during the raid shows muzzle flashes of gunfire, directed at Davidians trying to escape the burning building.

• The Feds pumped the place full of flammable gas, & then shot incendiary grenades in the windows to burn the place to the ground.
• They tried to shoot at anyone who tried to escape, and then proceeded to DESTROY ALL THE EVIDENCE of these actions.

• The documentary team finds the “missing” front door in the evidence locker.
• Bullet holes match what the Davidians claimed.
• Janet Reno “apologizes”, but the official govt. story DOESN’T CHANGE. Instead of mostly harmless religious kooks, they’re continuously demonized.

......

So after 27 years, what can we take from the Waco siege?

• The Davidians, while non traditional in their beliefs (polygamy), were demonized in order to justify a massacre by the Feds over GUN CONTROL.
• Everyone living in the compound were there by their own free will

• David Koresh did marry a bride as young as 14(!), which is WRONG & illegal. He should have been investigated & arrested, not violently confronted with militarized forces.
(De-escalation vs. Escalation)
(Police vs. Military)

• A total of 82 Davidians were killed & 4 rank-&-file ATF agents (all great people just doing their jobs) were killed NEEDLESSLY due to PISS POOR LEADERSHIP & malfeasance on behalf of incompetent “leaders” (Janet Reno, Texas Branch ATF Lead, the Clintons, etc.)

• (((Media))) Propaganda Effect:
People still, to this day, think the Davidians killed themselves, their own children, & murdered Federal agents because they’re told FROM MEDIA & POP CULTURE that the Davidians were an “evil, gun-thumping, wacko cult, that abused children”.

• Just because it’s the government is doing it, doesn’t mean it’s right. They broke every rule during Waco & then proceeded to try to lie & destroy evidence to cover their own asses. Justifying a civilian massacre is SHAMEFUL & we must never let them get away with these things

• Incidents like this should never ever happen in the United States of America. We have the 1st (Freedom of Religion) & 2nd Amendments (Bear Arms) for a reason

Overstepping Fed. agencies & infringements of rights lead to massacres & wars if people are willing to die for them

In Waco 1993, a dark period, Americans on both sides of the conflict were treated like pawns on a chessboard

RIP to all the men on both sides, & especially to the women & children who died terrified, who were 100% needlessly massacred due to the actions of bad people in POWER.

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