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existed at all, were "sealed" by court order. A court order from _ had a machine gun, which it now appears they did not, if it was the same judge who apparently signed it in the first place. “illegal” it merely meant that a $200 tax had not been paid on it. The same judge, Walter Smith, Jr, of the Waco Division, All it takes to legally own a machine gun in this country is to pay Western US District Court in Waco, denied eight petitions for a $200 tax and fill out a Form 4. The BATF is supposed to relief filed by various lawyers seeking to order the FBI and check that those taxes have been paid. BATF to be made to follow the law and the United States Neighbours we have spoken with who have known the Branch Constitution. The government never once filed a single paper in Davidians for 15 years described them as “good samaritan” types opposition to any of these motions. There was clear, controlling who helped their neighbours and were kind and friendly. Supreme Court law that required that these petitions be granted. Normal people, good neighbours. The kind of folks you'd prob- The judge had no legal reason to deny ably rather have living around you than them, yet he did. And he used the same the thugs who commit the drive-by shoot- order, nearly a Xerox, to deny all of them. ings, rapes, and robberies, for instance. Walter Smith is the same judge who Calling a religion a "cult" and putting aiovel urigmens of pole wo et. the FBI gave us "the cals infomation aon te met there was not sufficient probable cause to truth", as told by the FBI, caches” is exactly the same technique that tobedsuined injaisas"marrial wines. _, 4G the news media wi gusting people, so they could es". dutifully lapped it up and be killed. It is the same technique used And this same judge is the only judge in spread it throughout the —_y every tyrannical government, to kill an that division, where all the remaining coun try pg we — vocal adversari- Branch Davidians, now facing "murder" ae8 al group. But in this country, we are sup- charges, will be put on trial. After the posed to have freedom of religion. It BATFE and FBI learned that the American would seem that is a pipe dream. Justice Federation had released a press We have three confirmed reported cit- release stating that the use of military : ings of trainloads of UN tanks going into troops against United States citizens violated federal law, specif- Portland, Oregon, over the past few weeks, and troop move- ically the Posse Comitatus Act, the BATF released a cover story, ments of unmarked military vehicles across the nation. Perhaps claiming that the tanks were "really" not Army; they were you might want to ponder the significance of these events. And national guard, and had been brought in under the "Drug __ tonight, Peter Jennings, in yet another 'made for propaganda’ Interdiction Act" because they had heard there was a "metham- ABC News TV special, gave a full and impartial (not) account- phetamine lab"—three weeks after the FBI had already publicly _ing of events by having those bastions of integrity, Kisser, of the announced there was never any question whatsoever of drug Cult Awareness Network, and a former Branch Davidian give us involvement. Governor Ann Richards of Texas, who authorised "insight" into how Branch Davidians and “all cults" think. As if the use of the tanks, claimed she had been tricked. But she still they know. Peter Jennings twice said tonight that “there are did not order the tanks to be withdrawn. more than 100 cults across the country and this is a warning of Each day, secret horrors were perpetrated upon the Branch _ things to come." Davidians, out of sight of the American public, as the press cow- Paul Fatta, a Branch Davidian, held a Class III dealer's licence. ered like sheep, out on the fringes. Each day, the FBI gave us That meant that he could legally own, sell and buy any type of ‘The Truth’, as told by the FBI, and the news media dutifully gun. It is thus highly unlikely that there were any “illegal” guns lapped it up and spread it throughout the country, poisoning the __in the centre at all. And who is responsible for issuing these per- minds of people across the country, just as the FBI intended. mits? The BATF, They knew Paul Fatta had a licence. Did any of the news media ever challenge how the BATF Paul Fatta was not at the Mt Carmel centre the day the BATF might have any jurisdiction at all over "child molesting” allega- assaulted the Branch Davidians. Nonetheless, he is now listed tions? Or their authority to bring in two cattle trailers full of on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list as “armed and dangerous”. armed men, who threw grenades at the front door and went in This gives the government the ability to shoot him on sight and shooting at women and children on a Sunday morning? then claim he was a “fleeing felon". It is, in other words, a One or two persons asked decent questions at the press confer- _ licence for the government to kill, again. To bury the best evi- ence. Lewis Beam, a political activist, and a reporter from dence against them. Soldier of Fortune magazine, were kicked out of the press con- David Koresh had a message for the world. He wasn't holding ference for doing so. Lewis Beam was arrested. His crime? out to commit suicide. He didn't hold anyone hostage. He want- Asking "Is this the beginning of Gestapo tactics and martial law _ ed to give what he believed was a gift to the world. He believed in this country?" at the press conference. he held the secret to the Seven Seals, spoken of in Revelations. Others, including myself, were prevented from entering the He wanted to offer what he knew for anyone who could hear it, press conference, despite valid press credentials. In fact, later believing he had a duty to offer it to help save the souls of those that day I was detained by a BATF agent at a road block who _- who did not know. He wanted the time to write it down, which pointed a machine gun at me and my partner, John Baird, and _ he had to do in candlelight, using a manual typewriter, on scraps stole our credentials. My crime? I had filed a lawsuit on behalf of paper. He sent a message to the FBI telling them this. He of the Branch Davidians, asking that they be allowed to have also sent messages, Bible scriptures, that said that God would legal counsel. send his holy armies to smite his enemies. And, for all the unasked questions—no, it is not illegal to own The Waco massacre has awakened Americans all across the a machine gun in this country. Even if the Branch Davidians Gontinaedion paneled NEXUS¢35 Continued on page 68 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993