Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [j g d] at [dixie.com] (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: FBI Edits Waco 911 Tapes
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 05:34:03 GMT

[k--c--r] at [remus.ral.rpi.edu] (William Katcher) writes:

>If this is true, the question that I would like answered is who would
>the ATF be firing at if no BDs were in sight?  I find it hard to believe
>that they would waste ammo by firing at walls.  

Bill, you claim to be the expert video watcher.  Go back and look at the
very first video shown on the same day as the raid - before the BATF
could get its coverup machine running and gain media cooperation.  
Look at the frontal views.  Notice all the bullet holes scattered randomly
across the wall.  Also notice the bullet tracks in a row, characteristic
of automatic weapon fire, something BATF claims not to have had.

I feel I must take time out to remind you that this was to be a police
action against a building full of US citizens and not a firefight
against Charlie in the Mekong delta.  The object was NOT to kill 'em
all and God sort 'em out.  It was to effect an arrest.  Most people 
seem to understand that; you don't.

Given that they had a confidential (HA!) informant inside the compound
before the raid, they knew the place was a clapboard building with
no armor capable of stopping small arms fire.  Therefore when they
started strafing the building from the front and from overhead
with the choppers, the intention WAS to kill everyone involved.
Typical government incompetence.  Took 'em almost 100 days to achieve
that goal.

John

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