Was there truly nothing the government was trying to hide at the Branch Davidian home in Waco? If you say there was nothing please review the following sequence of events.
The government has been combing the grounds for about forty days. On a Thursday the relatives of the survivors, frustrated with the continuing refusal to let them on to the site, and they receive a court order permitting access. The next day, after forty days, the government discovers human waste and other unsanitary conditions. Pursuant to an order from the public health department the compound is bulldozed on Saturday.
I do not think I was born paranoid but perhaps events are making me so. Are we truly expected to believe the government had nothing to hide with this sequence of events? Lets walk through this.
We have the government's sudden discovery of human waste after forty or so days of searching the ashes. OK, lets say it was not a sudden discovery but rather a known risk they were taking. It would be simple to go into court and challenge access to the next of kin based upon the risk. But then they would have had to prove there was such a risk.
The obvious conclusion is there was no such risk or at least a risk that could not be proven.
What we have here is the government avoiding a court confrontation on access using a separate agency to prevent any further access. I mean I find it very difficult to accept the government had no further interest in searching the site EXACTLY at the time the families filed the law suit.
There is no way to explain the timing of these events that does not smell of the government hiding something that would have been obvious to untrained people simply walking around the area. What we have here is the court process being cut short by the machinations of the government.
And what was the risk of letting the next of kin on to the site? Health? Require them to have a current tetanus shot and whatever else the government investigators had as prophylactic measures. No big deal.
Although I presume the families would have brought with them some trained investigators the government could have certainly gotten at least minimal and controlled access from the judge hearing the suit. It appears there was something so obvious most anyone could have seen it in moments that the government wanted no one to see.
Lets go further. What was to be seen by any competent observer was something that required the site being bulldozed to cover up. What was to be seen was so important that it required circumventing the court hearing entirely and using another route to destroy the site. Given all the options above it appears the risk of what might have been discovered was so great that the government cut short its own investigation, risked the exposure of what I am recounting right now, solely to prevent anyone access to the site.
What that evidence might be I have no idea. Given the timing, given the actions, there is no way to look at this as anything but a cover-up and a serious one.