Cultwar Legacy

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They never forgot the lessons learned from the Cultwar, however and that story was recounted, passed on by word of mouth around the campfires as generation succeeded generation lest those lessons be forgotten and become just an urban myth.

But the Cultwar had also left a legacy; a prophecy which foretold that when the star they called The Creator, shining low in the morning sky to the south, was joined by its twin, The Emissary, it would herald a time of great change for all the Children of Orchard But now The Emissary had appeared and the clans made plans for a gathering to discuss how they would face whatever change it brought. For good or for ill no one knew; they only knew that they must face it together.

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Banky W kicks-off campaign. Again, Buhari declines assent. Delta Force oicers appear to have been present at Mount Carmel on April 19, though the government docu- ments neither indicate in what capacity they were present nor name the Special Forces troops as being Delta Force.

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Because their military spe- cialties were classiied, these troops wore civilian clothes. She notes that video recordings were made but never released to attorneys for the Branch Davidians or to other researchers. It is clear from the April 19 log entries and from my own listening to the audiotapes that oicials in SIOC could hear audio cap- tured by surveillance devices see below. Reno had instructed the FBI to stop the assault if the Branch Davidi- ans indicated they wanted to negotiate their surrender. The FBI reported that someone threw the telephone out the front door immediately after Sage called into the building at 5: Jamar gave congressional testimony supporting the claim that the telephone was thrown out imme- diately after Sage spoke with Steve Schneider.

The log indicates that negotiators began calling the Branch Davidians at 6: They continued calling throughout the assault, but no one picked up. The April 19 log records that at 9: Sage said on the loudspeaker that because of gunire coming from the Branch Davidians, the agents could not ix the phone line. SIOC logged that a man came outside and signaled that the phone line was cut.

A sniper-observer reported at 9: Sage announced that the agents were trying to obtain another phone to give them. Sage directed Craddock to pull inside as much of the phone line as he could and indicated that they would bring the Branch Davidians another phone. SIOC logged at 9: Graeme Craddock subsequently testiied that when he went to the foyer at approximately 9: He said that even if it had been thrown out the front door, they had three other telephones he could have connected.

The telephone line set up by the FBI to negotiators ran from the phone in the foyer under the front wall of the building and outside, but a tank had pushed in that wall. Craddock tested the line with a spare phone, but the line still did not work. He conjectured that the line outside was damaged. Eastern Standard Time An FBI-operated tank drives into the building on April 19, , to gas the children and adults inside the concrete vault, which has an open doorway facing the front of the building. Hardy reports that autopsies revealed that nine persons in the vault died of asphyxiation before the ire started, including Mayanah Schneider two years old , Startle Summers one year old , and Star Koresh six years old.

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Retired colonel Applegate wrote in his unpublished report: David, you have had your ifteen minutes of fame! Vernon is no longer the messiah. Leave the building now. Our time is now. Rawlings reported that he heard Koresh say to light the ires, then heard him rescind the order, and then heard him give the order again. SIOC logged at Byron Sage pleaded over the loudspeakers: David, lead those people out. Lead them to safety.

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David, we need you to bring the people out. David lead those peo- ple out. David, bring them out. David, the time is now! You will go through with this. After the ire burned the building, the bodies of Koresh and Schneider were found near each other where they had fallen from the second loor. Koresh had been shot once in the center of his fore- head.

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Schneider had killed himself by iring an assault rile in his mouth. Fire trucks were called by the FBI at The trucks arrived at By that time the building had burned down completely. As the building burned, nine people escaped the ire, some of them badly burned. From white side [front] windows observed individuals light- ing ires. FBI Hostage Rescue Team operators are visible standing outside the tanks as they watch the building burn down. They are standing on the far side of the uninished storm shelter on the north end of the building.

The statements made by agents who claimed they saw this were disproved under cross-examination. They waded through waist-deep dirty water with rats, opened the plywood door to the tunnel, went inside, and opened the door to the buried school bus, hoping the chil- dren were in there alive. Inside the bus they took of their gas masks. It was coming in from the tunnel mouth, which was well away from the ire.

He and the other men stood silently in the bus; there was nothing to say. The ire was raging, as hot as a reinery blaze. A local television camera ilming from a location north of the build- ing, separate from other television crews at Satellite City, recorded video showing smoke and lames laring out of the vault for the rest of the afternoon while agents walked to the doorway and looked in.

The log shows that family members began calling the FBI asking for informa- tion about their loved ones. After the ire, Reno stated to the press that she was the oicial who had approved the operation.

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However, this militariza- tion did not happen overnight; it was already well under way in when ATF and FBI agents launched their assaults against the Branch Davidians. Members of Delta Force were present during the April 19, , assault in an unrevealed capacity.

Wright has argued that law enforcement agents trained in military combat techniques approach policing with a warfare mentality. Skolnick and criminologist James J. Two diferent FBI strategies were being employed simultaneously in At the same time, other FBI agents were collecting intelligence about the Branch Davidians and their theology and producing psychological analysis of David Koresh.

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In light of the fact that by March 10 perhaps as early as March 8 a plan for a CS gas and tank assault was being formulated, why did HRT agents, commanded by Rogers, supported by Jamar, and reporting to SIOC oicials, seem to go out of their way to undermine negotiation suc- cesses through aggressive actions and psychological warfare tactics? Before the siege started, the Branch Davidians held jobs, went to school, and interacted with residents of Waco and elsewhere.

During the siege, FBI agents encapsulated the Branch Davidians, limited their access to out- side information, prohibited their contacts with loved ones not present at Mount Carmel, prevented them from speaking to intermediaries, and applied psychological warfare and stress escalation tactics that caused sleep deprivation, exhaustion, and fear—not optimum conditions for the Branch Davidians to be making carefully considered decisions.

FBI supervisory special agent Kenneth V. Instead, it is the role of law enforcement to utilize understanding of group or religious motivation to investigate any such group that violates the law. Bolz stressed the importance of negotiators and tactical operators being trained together and thereby becoming well acquainted so that when a critical incident occurs, they can work together. Waco happened because well-known and well-estab- lished arrest, hostage, and barricade protocols were ignored.

Gary Noes- ner was the irst chief negotiator in the newly created CIRG, and he was able to implement creative negotiation techniques to resolve peacefully the eighty-one-day standof with the Montana Freemen in The evidence, however, is more complicated than that. Stuart Wright notes that items collected from Mount Carmel after the ire and put into a storage locker were discovered in to include mislabeled devices that could ignite ires, including pyrotechnic percussion grenades and other projectiles. Four other Branch Davidians were respectively sentenced to twenty years, ifteen years, ive years, and three years.

As a result of an appeal to the Supreme Court, in the sentences of six of the convicted Branch Davidians with the lengthiest sentences were reduced to ifteen years each. The Danforth Final Report, released in , found that the pyrotechnic ferret rounds ired at the tunnel early in the morning of April 19 could not have caused the ire that erupted by For the most part, the FBI agents in charge of the assault at Mount Carmel went on to live lives of quiet retirement. His statement succinctly pointed to interactive factors that resulted in the deaths of seventy-six Branch Davidians on April 19, Author House, , Discussion of such critiques may be found in J.

Oxford University Press, , — Prometheus, , Knopf, , Gary Noesner, Stalling for Time: Random House, , Seven Bridges, , — A Documentary Reader, ed. Dereck Daschke and W.

Michael Ashcraft New York: New York University Press, , — Tabor and Eugene V. Hall, with Philip D. Schuyler and Sylvaine Trinh, Apocalypse Observed: Routledge, , Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conlict, ed. Millennialism in Social and Historical Perspective, ed. Baylor Univer- sity Press, , — Oxford University Press, , 79— Oxford University Press,

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