FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                             August 25, 1999


             Private Attorney General Urges FBI and
               Janet Reno to Terminate Waco Review

                               by

                Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
              All Rights Reserved without Prejudice


San Francisco.   Paul Andrew Mitchell, Candidate for the House of
Representatives and  the Private Attorney General in the cases of
People v. United States,  has publicly admonished Janet Reno  and
FBI Director  Louis Freeh  for pretending  objectivity  in  their
upcoming review  of the Waco Holocaust, and the deaths of several
innocent children there.

     "Janet Reno  has already  admitted her  complicity  in  this
tragedy," stressed  Mitchell.  "She is hardly in a position to be
objective about  the facts  of the  case, or  the many laws which
were broken during that siege."

     Mitchell recently addressed a letter to Judge Alex Kozinski,
sitting on  the Ninth  Circuit Court  of Appeals,  to express his
specific intent  to petition  a Texas court for an ORDER to Reno,
and possibly other unnamed accomplices, to show cause why she and
they should  not be  charged with being an accessory to murder in
the first degree.

     Mitchell also  expressed his intent, acting on behalf of the
People of  the United States of America, to convey their answers,
if any,  to a  State grand  jury lawfully  convened  in  McLellan
County, Texas, where the town of Waco is situated.

     "It is  clear from our careful review of the pertinent human
Rights  treaties,  that  extreme  caution  is  required  whenever
official violence could threaten the safety and well-being of any
minor children,"  explained  Mitchell.    "In  particular,  those
treaties strictly forbid the execution of minors."

     Mitchell here  refers to  the explicit  prohibitions in  the
International Covenant  on Civil  and  Political  Rights  against
execution of  minors in  any countries  who  have  ratified  this
Covenant.

     Article 6  of the  Covenant states:   "Death sentences shall
not be  imposed for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of
age and shall not be carried out on pregnant women."

     The United  States Senate  finally ratified this Treaty, but
only after  a long, and embarrassing delay.  The Supremacy Clause
in the  U.S. Constitution  raises this  Treaty to  the status  of
supreme Law throughout America.

     "A number  of pertinent Texas State laws also appear to have
been violated, among them a host of provisions in the Texas Penal
Code," Mitchell  argued.   "It is  a criminal offense in Texas to
engage in  deadly conduct,"  he added.   In  many States,  deadly
conduct is  also known  as reckless endangerment, and falls under
the doctrine of criminal negligence.

     "No matter  what rumors  might have  been circulating  about
David Koresh,  there is no evidence whatsoever that he, or any of
his family  of associates, ever waived their fundamental Right to
due process  of law,"  Mitchell argued.   "Torching that building
was tantamount to summary punishment, which is strictly forbidden
by the U.S. Constitution."

     Mitchell is  known for  having brought  an unpublicized suit
against the  City of San Marcos, and other official co-defendants
in central  Texas, for  organized government abuses of the Social
Security Number  ("SSN").   Mitchell alleged felony violations of
federal  laws,   when  he  was  arrested,  and  denied  essential
services, for refusing to disclose an SSN.  See 42 U.S.C. 408.

     The verified  criminal complaint  in that  case charged  the
owners of  a telephone answering service with deadly conduct, for
a written  policy of scheduling tow trucks ahead of medical calls
made from  hospital emergency  rooms and intensive care units.  A
local fire captain was the co-owner of that answering service.

     "The people  I met  in central Texas," Mitchell added, "were
almost too  horrified to  think straight about the violent deaths
of  these  children.    Heavy  psychological  defense  mechanisms
appeared to  dominate, whenever  I would  broach the subject with
residents I met there."

     "I am  one of  many Americans who have seen the film footage
of SWAT team members climbing a ladder to the second story window
of the  Branch Davidian  Complex.   It is  clear to  me, from the
sheer volume  of gun  fire at  this precise  moment,  that  those
officers failed  to do  everything possible to protect the safety
of the  children there,  to say  nothing of  the adults  who also
perished," Mitchell added.

     Mitchell is  here referring  to video coverage of the siege,
showing an  exchange of  gun fire  after SWAT  team  members  had
reached a  one-story roof.   One officer's gun appears to misfire
into his  own leg,  and bullet  holes can  be seen forming in the
wall adjacent to a second-story window.

     Separate footage  appears to  show flames  spewing from  the
cannon of  a tank,  after it  had punctured  a large  hole in the
building's exterior wall, near ground level.

     Mitchell has  also authorized electronic messages to certain
Internet contacts,  to express his intent to intervene, on behalf
of the  People of  the USA,  in the  wrongful death case which is
already proceeding in federal court.

     "The application  of  these  human  Rights  treaties  is  an
exercise which should clarify the historical record, and pinpoint
the responsible parties," Mitchell urged.

     A final  decision on his application for leave to intervene,
must await  careful consideration  by the current parties to that
litigation, and their counsel.

     Paul Andrew Mitchell  can  be reached  via email services at
the Supreme Law Library on the Internet:  http://supremelaw.org.


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