ON THIS DATE IN 1993 [April 19] - WACO - Who Shot First?
Today is the anniversary of the 1993 incineration of the Branch Davidean church at Waco Texas. The siege began when the BATF decided to raid the church, which supported itself financially with a gun repair and reselling business, to garner some favorable publicity in the wake of several BATF disasters involving raids at the wrong address and the killing of innocent Americans. But Waco turned into another disaster as the BATF invited the media along on the operation. One of the media was a friend of David Koresh and called him to let him know the raid was on the way. When the BATf arrived, Koresh opened the front door intending to invite the BATF to inspect the dismantled weapons in their workshop (all the functioning weapons were out at a gun show that day). But as soon as Koresh opened the door he was shot in the groin by a BATF sniper and the situation deteriorated from there with BATF accidentally shooting each other (and claiming it was the Branch Davideans).
The FBI was called in to clean up the BATF's mess and found themselves in a dilemma, because if the Branch Davideans were allowed to live to testify, and if examination of the guns on the premises confirmed they were unfirable, it would have been a major scandal for the Clinton administration. So Janet Reno, claiming that the Branch Davideans were abusing their children, ordered an assault using CS tear gas, which is illegal to use on enemy soldiers in time of war. Huge amounts of CS were pumped into the church using methylene chloride as a propellent. Methylene chloride is highly toxic, used to melt plexiglass to bend it into new shapes. It also melts lung tissue. The official story was that the Branch Davideans had committed mass suicide by setting the fire themselves, but autopsies revealed there was no smoke inhalation damage to their lungs, which means they were dead from the gassing before the fire started.
"The remains of the church as well as the top six inches of the soil were bulldozed and buried in a secret location".
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