From: Gary Hunt at the Outpost of Freedom in Waco, Texas
Date: APRIL
10, 1993 In motions filed with district court
in Boise, Idaho, Gerry Spence, attorney for Randy Weaver,
said, "the FBI's first rules of engagement were that
any armed adult at the Weaver residence should be killed.
That these rules of engagement were illegal since the FBI
possess no power to change the law in order to permit
officers to kill when the officers or others are not in
eminent danger of death or serious bodily injury."
Spence's- conclusions were based upon grand jury
testimony by Richard Rogers, commander of the FBI Hostage
Rescue Team.
As can be observed in the videos shown by a Waco
television station, an agent would yell
"window", and fire would begin peppering the
area of the window indicated. This has been confirmed by
those who have since come out of the complex. Can we
construe from this that a similar order had been given
here in Waco, or, at least, that the policy in practice
on February 28th was similar to that order given in
Idaho?
If we still wonder whether the shooting was
indiscriminate on February 28th, let's look at a couple
of situations. First, Mike Schroeder was shot on the
afternoon of February 28th in a gunfight with the BATF.
Surely someone would have realized that he had hit
Schroeder, unless, of course, the fire were
indiscriminate. It was days later when the BATF
"realized" that there was a body on the fence
and removed it, or did they leave the body in the weather
for days just out of spite?
The other situation revolves around Peter Gent, who
was killed at the top of the water tower. His body is
clearly visible in the aforementioned videos, but was
allowed to remain for days, as well. In this case it was
about a week. Perhaps sufficient time for decomposition
to obliterate evidence as to where he was shot from. Now,
I'm sure that many have missed seeing the body on the
tower. If you review the videos I'm sure that you will
now see the body as clearly as you would hear a dripping
faucet. I'm equally sure that the BATF/FBI was fully
aware of the existence of the body from the first day.
Unfortunately, while they were removing their dead and
wounded, they would not allow the same opportunity to the
Church members. Nor has there been any indication that
the Church members have been allowed any more than to
bury the badly decomposed body of Gent.
Weaver's 14 year old son Sammy's body was left in a
shed for quite a few days with no offer to allow burial,
and was subsequently removed by federal forces, sent to
another state for autopsy, which, under Idaho law,
prohibited the autopsy from being considered as evidence,
and was then cremated. Weaver's wife, Vicky, was left
under the dinning room table in the cabin until the
"assault" was over, then disposed of in like
manner to Sammy's.
The only conclusion appears to be that the people are
of no consequence. Only members of the government assault
teams are worthy of proper medical and burial attention.
I guess our purpose has become "to serve the
government" rather than the government "to
serve the people".
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