Given that we learned a lot of
things at the House Waco Hearing, this is the second in the
series.
We learned the BATF both lied to and conspired to lie to
the Army to obtained paid for training contrary to the purpose
for with the money was appropriated. This resulted in the
misappropriation of funds, which is a crime. They also conspired
to commit that crime.
And in this regard, given
that they not only lied and conspired to lie to the army and did
lie to the public and possibly to the FBI, upon what grounds are
we to believe any of their statements at the hearing? Now if at
the hearing there had been an acknowledgment of the lie even with
the felony penalty for the lie and the conspiracy to lie that
would be one thing. But there was none. They stuck to their lie.
The country loves repentance.
The country is not endeared to liars.
We learned that the FBI
accelerated the attack by 42 hours because the people who were
shooting grenades into the building were being fired upon. We
remember from the press briefing after the final attack the
briefer being asked how people inside tanks could be in danger.
He replied that if one knew just where to shoot at an Abrams tank
the people insider were in danger.
What in fact we learned here
was the ability of the FBI to justify their claim they were being
fired upon that did not exist on 19 August 1993.
We had confirmation that
Janet The Torch Reno is a raving
lunatic. In prior hearings we learned that Janet Reno is the only person with knowledge of
what she said in her post BBQ press conferences, that children
were being beaten and abused. Not one other person involved in
the operation admitted to any such knowledge. Thus we learned
that The Torch invented it in her head and it became so real to
her that she acted upon it.
In these hearings, with her
claim she took Linda Thompson seriously, the she believed a call
for people to assemble with their armored and tracked vehicles
and their aircraft on 3 April by a person calling herself the
Acting Adjutant General Unorganized Militia of the United States
was a threat on 19 April. And here was Janet Reno with all the resources of the
Justice Department at her disposal and she could not seriously
investigate Linda Thompson whose address was given in exactly the
same sentence of the internet message she claimed to find.
Here it is from the message
Linda D. Thompson
Acting Adjutant General
Unorganized Militia of the United States
3850 South Emerson Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Is there anyone out there who
can not find out about this person from this information? Here
is the person who threatened the FBI in Waco and where to find
her.
The Torch could not find her.
Janet Reno from two clear and unquestioned
cases is a paranoid. From the way she starts out strong in
questioning and then ends with paranoia it has all the symptoms
of a cocaine habit.
And finally we learned that
no one in the government understands what taking responsibility
means. So far as we can tell, they consider "taking full
responsibility" is a ritual phrase that absolves them of all
responsibility.
For example, after prodding
from Rush Limbaugh, Clinton stopped pointing to Reno and "took full responsibility" he
failed to investigate Reno. That is
what responsibility means. It does not mean "prove I am guilty"
despite that fact that the entire committee appears to believe
that.
In any position of
responsibility the first duty is to find the fault and then to
assess one's own contribution to it. It appears all of
Washington considers it to be a matter of "Hah! Hah! You can't
get me." Reno was not asked what she
had done to discharge that responsibility. What is more absurd
is that the highest person in charge was not called to testify as
to his actions in the matter.
This is a very incomplete
hearing to say the least.
All in all, if this does not
result in a special prosecutor the entire effort will have been
in vain and militias will grow. And certainly throwing people to
the wolves over Ruby Ridge will not slow the call for justice in
Waco.
This may be the defining
moment in the future of the United States. It all depends upon
Congress acting in such manner that nothing like this can ever
happen again in addition to moving to prosecute what did happen.
If there is no change from Congress there will be no change from
the people.