Time: Mon Oct 28 16:22:17 1996
To: "Cravens, Roger D." <rbg3@CCDOSA1.EM.CDC.GOV>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: refused for cause
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At 12:52 PM 10/28/96 EST, you wrote:
>
>Text Excerpt 4: Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum
>
>Entire html text of the Museum currently available at
>home.overthe.net/pub/showtime/wm1-1f01.zip. Excerpted by
>Carol Valentine from
>http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum. Images omitted.
>
>                      That's Not Murphy's Law
>
>(In the preceding two excerpts, we have seen that the
>February 28, 1993 raid was designed to fail, providing
>an excuse for the use of massive military force against
>a group of civilians under the rubric of "law enforcement.")
>
>With this perspective on the purpose of the raid, we will examine
>whether the Davidians rose to the bait in the upcoming excerpt,
>"Who Struck John?"
>
>But before we do, other details should be mentioned:
>
> -    We are asked to believe another manifestation of Murphy's law.
>     The Treasury Report tells us that early on the morning of
>     February 28, local Waco TV station KWTX cameraman Jim Peeler,
>     on his way to cover the event, "became lost" on "back roads."
>     There he coincidentally met a letter carrier who,
>     coincidentally, was a Branch Davidian. Mr. Peeler asked
>     directions and coincidentally mentioned the impending raid;
>     naturally the letter carrier, Davidian David Jones, went to
>     the Mt. Carmel Center and told David Koresh about upcoming
>     events, as we might expect (Treasury Report, pg. 85).
>
> -    We have been asked to believe a lot, but this is beyond the
>     pale: The location where Mr. Peeler became "lost" was within
>     sight of the Mt. Carmel Center!
>
> -    That encounter on the "back roads" was witnessed by one of the
>     ATF undercover agents in casual clothes, accompanied by the
>     "forward observers ... in ATF battle dress utilities" and
>     "their arrest support teams," who, we are asked to believe,
>     were coincidentally on their way to a hay barn behind the Mt.
>     Carmel Center (pg. 88).
>
> -    The Treasury Report expresses no curiosity about how a local
>     news reporter, covering an important local news story at a
>     well-known local landmark, could become "lost" within eyesight
>     of his destination.
>
> -    The narration of this incident and speculations on its effect
>     is spread over seven pages in the Treasury Report (pgs. 82 to
>     88), including a map and schedule of which reporter was where
>     when and what car he was driving. The drafters of that report
>     worked very hard to convince the readers of the incident.
>
> -    In fact, the number of pages in the Treasury Report consumed
>     in narrating all the dumb moves of government planners and
>     agents in the planning and execution of this investigation
>     overstates the case. Government bureaus are notoriously
>     reluctant to admit to their own errors. The Treasury Report,
>     however, is replete with such "confessions."
>
>                           The Final Tip
>
>We have already seen that the ATF deployed a number of very obvious
>undercover agents across the street from the Mt. Carmel Center, and
>that David Koresh had told them that he was watching them with
>binoculars.
>
>One of these agents, Robert Rodriguez, had been taking Bible
>lessons from Koresh in order to spy on him. On the morning of
>February 28, the Waco Tribune-Herald had just (coincidentally)
>published a second inflammatory article on David Koresh in a series
>entitled the "Sinful Messiah." Rodriguez visited Koresh to assess
>what effect the negative PR was having, whether the publication
>Tribune-Herald's publication of Sinful Messiah had incited Koresh
>and his followers to take up arms or otherwise increase their
>security measures. The planners were still not sure Koresh had been
>effectively tipped off.
>
>While Rodriguez was taking his Bible lesson from Koresh, David
>Jones allegedly returned to the Mt. Carmel Center and gave the news
>of the impending raid to his father, Perry Jones. Jones interrupted
>the Bible discussion, called David Koresh out of the room on the
>pretext that he had a phone call, and told him the news. When
>Koresh came back into the room, he allegedly told Rodriguez
>"they're coming, Robert, the time has come."
>
>We are asked to believe that Rodriguez was "shocked" when he heard
>the news; he became so agitated, he contemplated jumping out a
>window in order to get out before the ATF arrived (Treasury Report,
>pg. 89). Rodriguez suddenly remembered a breakfast appointment,
>bolted out of his Bible lesson, jumped in his truck, and drove back
>to the undercover house. When he got to the undercover house,
>Rodriguez found the window was raised. A camera was in one of the
>windows, and it was clearly visible from the outside of the house
>(doubtlessly within the scope of David Koresh's binoculars.)
>
>When Rodriguez took fast leave of the Mt. Carmel Center he acted
>like what he was-- a man in the know, getting out of the way of a
>massacre--a man who preferred to be elsewhere when it happened.
>Just in case everything else failed, the Davidians watched a house
>guest suddenly remember a "breakfast appointment" in the middle of
>a Bible lesson and make a mad dash to safety.
>
>The ATF plan was both murderous and suicidal. The evidence
>indicates that the "bungling" was intended to forewarn the
>Davidians of the impending attack, to provoke them into defending
>themselves, and to provide them with easy targets. The ATF were led
>to slaughter to provide the excuse for the first test of the
>National Response Plan.
>
>It was not Murphy's law. It was a set-up. It was a domestic Gulf of
>Tonkin incident. And as we shall see later in Who Struck John?, it
>included some powerful backup plans to ensure its success.
>
>Next: Text Excerpt 5, Who Struck John?
>
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>
>Copyright 1996 by Carol A. Valentine, on loan to Public Action,
>Inc. All commercial rights are reserved. Full statement of terms
>and conditions for copying and redistribution is available in the
>Museum Library. "Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum," "SkyWriter,"
>and the skywriting logo are trademarks of Public Action Inc.
>
>
>
>Carol A. Valentine
>President
>Public Action, Inc.
>
>________________________________________________
>
>TERRORISM:  The use of terror, violence, and intimidation to achieve an end.
>A system of government that uses terror to rule. (American Heritage
>Dictionary, 1976)
>
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>
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>
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