From: Gary Hunt at the Outpost of Freedom in Waco, Texas
Date: MARCH 18, 1993 At the Wednesday morning
press conference conducted by BATF and FBI in Waco,
Texas, Mr. Bob Ricks of the FBI was asked whether there
would be any effort to provide health supplies and
remedies to the church members inside the Mt. Carmel
church complex, in conjunction with the American Red
Cross. His answer was that there were no communications
along that line.
Wednesday afternoon I was finally able to get through
to Mr. Manny Marquees, with whom I had been attempting to
arrange for provision of these products to the Church,
and was told that there was no means by which this
humanitarian effort could be accomplished. When asked if
it was the desire of the FBI to see Pastor Koresh dead,
there was a lack of response.
Mr. Armand Marcelli, of the American Red Cross in
Virginia, was contacted regarding the Red Cross
intervening to provide life saving humanitarian aid to
those besieged church members. Mr. Marcelli's response
was that this was a civil action rather than a military
one, and that the Red Cross had no policy that would
allow any intervening to provide this aid. He indicated
that since there was a violation of the law, the Red
Cross could not get involved. It appears that the United
States has come full circle from a government under
British rule in which the arbitrary authority of the
Crown was the law to where the arbitrary authority of the
government, without the protections of the Bill of
Rights, has become the law without judgment of a jury of
peers.
Because the government has alleged a crime, the denial
of due process subjects those American and foreign
citizens to treatment that is less than what would be
offered the enemy in time of war. A clever little tool,
this. Pastor Koresh may die as a result of his injuries,
and judgment has been made by none other than some
negotiator in the federal system, not even by an elected
representative. What ever happened to the American ethic
of making the condemned well before execution?
Have we forgotten that the morality of the government
is the morality of the people? Have we allowed the
government to conduct themselves with a morality that is
foreign to our very nature? Or, have we reduced ourselves
to a morality that would have been repugnant to our
Founding Fathers?
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