From: Gary Hunt at the Outpost of Freedom in Waco, Texas
Date: APRIL 4, 1993 Having been denied the status of press by the
FBI makes it a little more difficult to follow the press
conferences. I have been following them on radio or
television. However, sometimes there are distractions and
I miss a portion. For example, I missed the question that
elicited a response from David Troy, Chief Investigator
for the BATF, when he said that David Koresh was guilty
of using illegal firearms. He failed to state why, or how
they were used illegally. I think that most of us here in
Waco were previously under the impression that the claim
was that the firearms were possessed illegally.
You would think that the significance
of words and their meaning would be more important than
this when we have so many lives lost. Perhaps this whole
episode was based upon some mis-worded allegations. As I
told you in the past, the ambiguity of the
Lawson-Matteson complaint left serious question in my
mind.
Later David Troy mentioned that
"the Ten Commandments" was being aired tonight
and suggested that David Koresh may want to watch it. He
then suggested that Koresh has violated four or five of
the Commandments.
It seems that the BATF has violated
some of the commandments, but hold themselves above them.
They also seem to hold themselves above the Bill of
Rights, of which they have violated nine, and the Texas
Constitution and Bill of Rights, of which they have
violated many. I suppose that this is their right, for
they are constantly acting above the very laws they are
supposed to enforce.
Both a Petition and an Agreement have
been submitted to the recipients of these releases in the
past few days. We have relied upon elected representation
for years and found little of what we wish to see come as
a result of our votes.
What has been offered to you by
providing these two items for your response is a means of
immediately allowing your elected representatives,
members of the government agencies and the press of this
country and other countries, to know, within just a few
days, how many of you have feelings along the lines of
the two items.
You may have read both the Petition and
the Agreement and set them aside to think about them. You
may have set them aside intending to get around to
showing them to somebody to see if they wanted to sign
their support. You may even have set them aside without
reading them, with the intention of reading them later.
Consider this - you have a chance to be
heard, but only if you wish to be heard. I beseech you to
contact friends and neighbors, now, and get their
signatures. Return what you have gotten by this evening
to APFN. Continue, tomorrow, with securing more
signatures, and send them in, and then do some more. Let
us let our government, and the world, know how we feel
about these events in Waco. Let them hear a resounding
call for common sense and justice in this issue. Never
before have we been afforded the opportunity to be heard
as we can be now, but it can only be done if we refuse to
procrastinate.
Let a new voice of America be heard
today, and let You be a part of that voice!
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