Remains of a two-year-old Davidian child, Mt. Carmel Doe 51a, photographed on May 7, 1993, at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's facility, just 18 days after the alleged date of death. The remains have never been identified. |
Introduction
Speaking before the May 1984 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow told the audience:
"Of all the forms of murder, none is more monstrous than that committed by a state against its own citizens … The homicidal state shares one trait with the solitary killer—like all murderers, it trips on its own egoism and drops a trail of clues which, when properly collected, preserved, and analyzed are as damning as a signed confession left in the grave." (Quoted by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover in Witnesses from the Grave, Pg. 217).
Snow used his anthropology skills to expose the atrocities committed by governments.
State Terrorism is defined by Vocabulary.com thus:
"the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear"
The Waco Holocaust was a terrorist act, designed to create abject fear of the U.S. government in the minds of the citizens.
State terrorism is largely dependent on propaganda, and the laws of propaganda apply. Not all segments of a population ("publics") will react the same way to the terrorist act. While terrorizing large sections of the public into acceptance and inaction, the government must also neutralize opposition. This is done by creating "deniability." When the story comes before individuals with oversight — judges, members of Congress, etc. — they will need an escape valve of deniability by which they can avoid the logical and damning conclusion that the power of the state has been perverted to terrorism.
One can view the Waco Holocaust as a series of events:
- A very public military assault on the victims, all of whom are innocent before the law. Among the victims were many mothers and children. The nation's top military and paramilitary agencies were involved: The Pentagon's Special Operations Command, the Department of the Treasury Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF); and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
- Killing the victims, from February 28, 1993, through the siege up to and including the day of the fire, April 19, 1993.
- Creating a fig leaf of "deniability." This was done by staging a CS gas attack, ostensibly to "make them come out," and then sparking a massive fire. Rumors that the victims were going to commit suicide were fanned. Killing the men was one thing — but a specific excuse was needed for the deaths of the women and children. That excuse, in part, was as follows: "The mothers and children sought shelter from the C/S gas in the concrete room ('the bunker'), and the structure collapsed and killed them." Their bodies were torn apart and mutilated to disguise the actual causes of death. The plan was to collapse the roof of the concrete room ("the bunker collapsed") and blame the deaths of the mothers and children on burial and suffocation.
- But apparently through some fault in coordination, the roof of the concrete room was not collapsed. Instead, a two-foot hole was punched in the top of the structure.
- Oops! Through another fault in coordination, the FBI pandered to the news services, permitting photography from the air and the ground. The photos show the concrete room in pretty good shape, thank you, except for the two-foot hole in the ceiling. The widely publicized pictures contradict the cover story that "the bunker collapsed." But it's too late to change the story.
The words of Clyde Snow (above) remind us:
"The homicidal state shares one trait with the solitary killer—like all murderers, it trips on its own egoism and drops a trail of clues which, when properly collected, preserved, and analyzed are as damning as a signed confession left in the grave."
Directory of Exhibits
The Death Gallery is organized into exhibits, each dealing with a definable topic, and designed for a sequential tour. To simplify the tour, each page includes a link to the next.
The Death Gallery in a nutshell
Background: What you need to know to understand what they did.
Plausible Denial: What it is, and how the Two Stooges accomplished it
What should a reasonable person conclude when evidence that could topple a government is destroyed under the noses of world-class evidence handlers?
Now down to brass tacks: What we are supposed to believe
The evidence speaks.
A picture counters the testimony of a thousand words
Oops! Texas Ranger spills the beans
How the Stooges collected the bodies
How the bodies of the Branch Davidians were laundered
The ID puzzle
The shape of things to come?
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