Guest Post by Ron Paul
April 19 was the 28th anniversary of one of the most shameful episodes in modern American history: the massacre of 76 innocent men, women, and children by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in a military-style assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
The assault followed a botched raid on the Davidian compound (staged at a time that it would distract attention from an ATF sexual harassment scandal) and a two-month standoff between the Davidians and the agency. The ATF used CS tear gas against the Dravidians, even though the gas was banned by an international treaty the US agreed to just months before the assault. So, if the assault had occurred on foreign soil as part of a military operation, it would have been a war crime.
Waco illustrates the dangers to our lives and liberties posed by a hyper-interventionist foreign policy. Eventually the deadly tools of the military-industrial complex will be brought home and used against US citizens.
In the 28 years since Waco, the military-industrial complex’s role in domestic law enforcement has grown. This is largely thanks to the Section 1033 program that provides military-grade equipment to local law enforcement. The people will not be safe from militarized law enforcement until Section 1033 is repealed and the military-industrial complex is dismantled.
The initial raid on the Branch Davidian compound was justified by claims the Davidians were violating unconstitutional gun laws. Infringements on the Second Amendment empower the federal police state. This is one reason why all those who value liberty must oppose all gun control laws, such as those currently being advocated by President Joe Biden and his congressional allies.
Last week, the ATF helped further Biden’s anti-Second Amendment agenda by issuing a proposed regulation regarding pistols fitted with stabilizers, thus allowing the agency to harass more gun owners.
Also last week, the Department of Justice unveiled model red flag legislation to encourage more states to adopt these laws. Red flag laws allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s firearms based on an allegation the individual may turn violent. Not surprisingly, allowing police to show up at a person’s home and demand he surrender his firearms can lead to violence. Expanding red flag laws will violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights, disregard due process, and lead to police being in more violent encounters.
David Chipman, President Biden’s nominee to head the ATF, is a former ATF agent turned gun control lobbyist. Mr. Chipman is an outspoken defender of the ATF’s actions at Waco. In addition to supporting red flag laws, he wants the ATF to arrest Americans who cannot buy a firearm because they failed a federal background check. The background check produces many false positives. Chipman’s proposal would lead to the arresting of many innocent Americans. This would not bother Chipman since he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that law-abiding gun owners are potential criminals.
The Waco massacre is proof that, as the late libertarian Karl Hess put it, “whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you end up an apologist for mass murder.” Those of us who understand this must continue to spread the truth about the true nature of the welfare-warfare-regulatory state. Key to regaining our liberty is making government officials abide by the same rules against the initiation of violence that apply to private citizens.
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I watched the documentary on Waco. The Red Beret Delta Force soldier ( just an observer/advisor ) testified that the ATF used the ” Oh Shit ” plan.
From Snopes: FALSE
” Mrs Clinton grew more and more impatient as the Waco stand-off came to dominate the headlines. Hillary wanted to get so-called “heath care reform” done, and Waco was taking all the headlines in spring.
This scenario even more bizarrely claims that Clinton’s putative motivation for issuing the order was that she was disgruntled over the Branch Davidian issue’s hogging all the headlines while she was working to craft a healthcare reform package:
Hillary was the one who ordered the FUBAR final assault on the holed-up Branch Davidians in Waco on April 19th, 1993. “
The moment she opens her mouth her narcissism is apparent to all. This is why it was ridiculous to assume she could command votes in an election. Does not surprise me in the least. They also blew up the Fed building in OKC to hide their crimes. That was the model for the pentagon bombing.
Now if only those idiot libertarians could see that unregulated merchants also end up in the exact same place of murder and tyranny.
It is a proven case of mass murder of American civilians by the Clinton Administration’s ATF and Delta Forces that was white washed by Congress and the MSM (ref the Panama Invasion murders under Bush, the Mai lay murders in Vietnam, etc). Never give up your guns or Freedom of Speech, etc. Our Federal Government cannot be trusted then, now or ever. Ask an Indian Native or Southern White male. I’m sure there are people in the rest of the World who know that too.
Chipman is a psychopath who stood over the burned rubble of the compound like a trophy hunter stands over a dead rhino. There is a whole series of photos of these murderous bastards standing in the ashes of murdered women, men and children. Like Horiuchi who murdered Randy Weavers son and wife in cold blood, nothing will ever happen to these psychopaths. They should die by the death of a thousand cuts for the cold blooded murders they committed, but, instead, they will be rewarded by the state.
Make sure you are head of ATF.
The great Federal Government in all its murderous glory…
“Texas Ranger Captain told the ATF agents what David Koresh had told him, but ATF agents refused about the cease fire and told him that they had a plan of their own to deal with Koresh. Three branch Davidians who were returning for a gun show, two of them were arrested but third man named Michael Schroeder(pictured on the right) resisted the arrest and wanted to get into compound because his wife and children were inside.
ATF agents took him to a seclude riverbed nearby and shot him 17 times. According to an anonymous agent, Schroeder was still alive when the ATF agents left him to die. But when Agents were walking to their base of operations, one of the agents who was still near Schroeder shot him twice in the head and killed him.
Schroeder’s body was left to rot where he died for five days until his relatives pressured the ATF and took the body for burial.”
http://global-watchman.blogspot.com/2014/05/waco-massacre-shame-of-nation.html
I am 100% certain what I would do if I am ever “red flagged” and there will be a lot of tears from families not my own.
Keep your head down and shoot’em in the back. Find out who they are and hunt them like rats at the city dump.
Bill Clinton and Janet Reno still hold the Texas record for the largest mass murder.
Yep, David Koresh was an innocent bystander/choir boy/do-gooder, not the evil psychopath he constantly portrayed. Poor guy!
Ditto…. same for Ruby Ridge.
I think you mean Ruby Ridge was a Federal crime scene because that was the final Court determination.
Governments have murdered somewhere around 200 million people, yet all gun control and gun bans exclude government.
I always believed the Second Amendment was about giving Citizens the right to fight a corrupt government, like the one we have now.
King George carried the torch of liberty compared to the filthy scum of the party controlled US gov’t.
I was younger then, and took the official narrative for truth. Now I realize what truly execrable people run “our” government.
I remember that day and it marked a decided turn in my worldview about America and the USGov’t in particular. I also remember when those jackboots at the ATF got what was coming to them.
Didn’t one of their own toss a grenade in a window and kill his fellow agents?
I don’t remember that, but look at what the GOP Senators think is so goddamned important in the context of the recently concluded Amerikan revolution. I hate them all
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-senators-push-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-american-flag-burning
Our Government appears to be getting worse with each passing day.
“our” government? Not mine. We have an illegal junta controlling the country and they have been doing so for a very long time. When a monster like this puke is up for head of the ATF then you realize that there is no law, no Constitutional protections remaining.
When the government can hold people in solitary confinement, sans bail or lawyers for the crime of ‘storming’ the Capitol bldg. for months without trial or even charges then you have a real problem.