Call me crazy, but I think they torched the complex themselves
The government is here to help.
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One of the most sensational segments of this documentary involves aerial Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) movie footage taken by the FBI's own observation plane over the Waco compound. The FLIR footage looks like black-and-white television camera footage, but registers heat sources. It is the same technology used by U.S. forces during Desert Storm. Sandwiched between the FLIR movie clips are the repeated claims by FBI officials and their congressional supporters that the FBI "did not fire a single shot" during the entire siege. We see, for instance, Representative Gene Taylor (D-MS) asking, "Did the FBI fire one shot —even one shot — at the Davidian compound?" To which senior FBI official Larry Potts (of Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City bombing infamy) replies, "No sir, not throughout the entire standoff." The problem is that those claims —according to the FBI's own FLIR footage — are obviously blatant lies. The Gif-fords' Waco takes us step by step through the most important segments of the FLIR film, often using freeze frames or slow motion, accompanied by commentary from Dr. Edward F. Allard, one of the top authorities on FLIR technology.
Dr. Allard, a former deputy director of the U.S. Defense Department's Night Vision Laboratory, helped pioneer much of the infrared thermal imaging technology now in use and holds patents on FLIR-re-lated inventions. In a calm, scientific manner, Allard authoritatively explains the significance of various heat sources seen on the film, including what he asserts are clearly muzzle flashes from automatic weapons fire from outside the building being fired into the building. Much of this shooting into the building follows what Allard describes as the FBI's "infantry/ tank maneuver" in which federal officers on foot apparently are using the armored tank for cover as it punches through the walls of the complex.
Dr. Allard's assessment is backed up by an analysis conducted by the Infraspection Institute for CBS' 60 Minutes. (The CBS newshounds never broadcast their blockbuster findings, of course, which is what one would expect from the network that aptly has been dubbed the "Clintonista Broadcast Service.") In addition to his video testimony, we have reviewed Dr. Allard's sworn affidavit concerning the FLIR footage, which adds even more compelling weight to his charge.
If the Allard and Infraspection analyses of the FLIR film are correct — and to the (admittedly untrained) eyes of this viewer their expert analyses very convincingly match what is actually seen on the film —then this one segment alone from Waco: The Rules of Engagement is sufficient to completely demolish one of the government's central contentions and to justify officially reopening this case. It not only demonstrates that FBI and Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Janet Reno, lied repeatedly under oath when they claimed that no shots were fired by the FBI, but may also mean that the same federal officers who fired into the building are guilty of murdering Davidians who were trying to flee the burning building."
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"Massive Gas"
The incredible decision to use the deadly CS "tear gas" in the first place is yet another matter that was never adequately examined in official investigations. The gas attack actually involved enormous quantities of CS powder dissolved in methylene chloride (paint thinner) pumped into the Davidian complex through a long pipe protruding from an armored tank. The concentrations the Davidians — including many elderly people, women, and small children —were subjected to were many times higher than would normally be used by police or military units. As FBI spokesman Bob Ricks stated in a press conference as the attack got underway, "We put massive gas in there." Indeed, and as various experts testified, these were lethal levels, especially for the babies, who could not be fitted with gas masks.
And when the toxic, flammable mixture burned, it produced even deadlier hydrogen cyanide gas, the same substance used in prison gas chambers. William Marcus, an inhalant toxicologist for the federal EPA who is interviewed on the effects of hydrogen cyanide, explains that it makes the muscles contract so violently that they actually bend and break one's bones. A photo of the body of one of the Davidian children shows the small corpse with the spine bent severely backward, the obvious result of the cyanide gas.
For anyone who watched the televised 1995 Waco hearings conducted by the Joint Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, surely one of the most gratingly memorable characters must be the snide, sneering, sanctimonious, acid-tongued Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY). Fortunately, Waco: The Rules of Engagement allows the ever-obnoxious Schumer repeatedly to discredit himself with his own words. In one segment of the hearings Schumer is shown upbraiding defense attorney Dick DeGuerin for referring to the FBI's "flash-bangs" as grenades. Schumer fulminates: "This idea of the FBI having hand grenades, not flash-bangs, but hand grenades — And then the coup de grace, Mr. DeGuerin says flash-bangs can kill, injure, maim. Anyone who knows anything about these things knows they can't."
The documentary then cuts to Congressman Bob Barr (R-CA) questioning ATF agent Jim Cavanaugh. Barr asks if the flash-bangs used by the ATF and referred to by Schumer are classified as destructive devices under 26 USC Section 6845 (f), to which Cavanaugh answers in the affirmative. Barr then asks if it is true that they can kill people, to which Cavanaugh replies, "Certainly. Yes sir."
