Bill Clinton and Waco

Bill Clinton, in continuation of his effort to prove he is as unfit to be an ex-president as he was to be president, has been busy attempting to tie the Tea Party movement into domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh. It is a cheap tactic. There is no indication the vast majority of Tea Partiers want anything more than their grievances addressed. They have been subject to violence themselves largely because of their unfair maligning as “taabagging” (an obscene sexual term) racists by progressives.

I do not condone the terrorist act of McVeigh by any stretch of the imagination. The fact is, however, he was not prompted to attack the federal government by an expansion of federal power or towering debt which promises higher taxes in the future, but by what he perceived was federal authorities brutally attacking citizens at the Branch Davidian compound at Waco--an attack perpetrated by the Clinton Administration.

But let us back up a minute. Why would Clinton want to bring up the Branch Davidian raid? Much of what actually happened at the raid which killed over eighty men, women, and children, is left (purposefully?) mysterious, some horrifying details are available to the public:

[T]here is the post hoc justification for the use of CS tear-gas in the raid offered by the US Justice Department and senior Clinton administration officials. The public generally, and even the Congressional hearings, seem to have accepted that the children at Waco were gassed and then died as, in effect, “collateral damage” in the course of a raid aimed at their parents.

This is not quite the case, however, by the Clinton administration’s own admissions. CS gas was used at the compound, in order, as senior White House adviser George Stephanopoulos said, echoing senior Justice Department statements, to “try and pressure” those in the compound. It was hoped, he said, that as this “pressure was increased, the maternal instincts of the mothers might take over and they might try to leave with their kids” (Washington Times, April 23, 1995).

But the FBI knew beforehand that adults in the compound had gas masks; the gas therefore would not put pressure on them. On whom, then? If the FBI knew that the adults had gas masks, but went ahead with the gas attack anyway, it is plain that this “pressure” was brought directly against the children because, as the FBI knew, they could not fit into adult– size gas masks. “Maternal feelings”, the FBI hoped, would be unleashed in the mothers by watching their children choking, gasping and blistering from the gas.

The plan Reno approved and took to President Clinton for approval contemplated the children choking in the gas unprotected for forty-eight hours if necessary, to produce the requisite “maternal feelings”. By taking aim at the children with potentially lethal gas, their mothers would be compelled, according to the FBI plan repeatedly defended by the Clinton administration afterwards as “rational” planning, to flee with them into the arms of those trying to gas them.

An independent report on Waco written by the Harvard Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Alan A. Stone, for the then Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann, says it “is difficult to believe that the US government would deliberately plan to expose twenty-five children, most of them infants and toddlers, to CS gas for forty-eight hours”. Unfortunately, however, that appears to have been exactly the plan.

So children were not to be collateral damage--a chilling enough concept--but the specific targets of the raid. While we are o the subject, the following video of Koresh was suppressed prior to the final raid in order to prevent public opinion from sympathizing with Koresh:I post this stuff not necessarily in support of Koresh, but to note Clinton’s track record of shady dealings against private citizens who did not and do not fit within his vision of the proper American.

While we are on the subject, have you ever asked yourself why progressives, many of whom vehemently oppose the death penalty, were quiet when McVeigh was sentenced to death and executed? It certainly was not because children died in the Oklahoma City bombing. It was because committed an even more heinous crime to progressives--he hated the government.

(Via: Betsy's Page.)