>From: Jon Lebkowsky <jonl@onr.com> >Subject: CYBERDAWG: Waco: The Rules of Engagement > > >CYBERDAWG BARKING: >Waco: The Rules of Engagement >A review by Jon Lebkowsky >Copyright <c> 1997 by Jon Lebkowsky >Feel free to distribute without change or abridgement. > >Attached below is a piece I wrote for Fringe Ware Review #8, published in >May 1995. Having acknowledged that something bad happened at Waco and that >the "proper authorities" certainly lied about it, I filed my memories of >Waco away and got on with other stuff which is to say, I never really got >it. Today, that changed. I saw William Gazecki's documentary film "Waco: >The Rules of Engagement," and got it like a jackboot in the jaw. As we >left the theatre my wife Marsha, in tears, said "They were doing just what >we wanted to do [recounting a 60s dream of ours to start a child-oriented >communal family] how could this have happened?" > >"This" is the raid on the compound that resulted in the deaths of 76 men, >women, and children who lived there, members of a Christian sect that was a >little strange, but certainly not a cult. If you think that David Koresh >was a whacky megalomaniac who abused children and led a mindless band of >followers to commit ritual apocalyptic suicide rather than surrender to the >FBI, don't feel too weird: somebody wanted you to believe that >characterization. And you don't have to believe me when I tell you it was >very wrong, all you have to do is see this film (if it finds general >release; there's currently no distribution deal). > >After you've seen the film, you'll have a better sense who Koresh was, and >who the Branch Davidians were, and you'll know that you were fed a pile of >complete bullshit by government and media sources=85unless you were reading >alternative accounts and histories, many of which were posted online, or >unless you had the opportunity, as Monte McCarter and I did, to talk to >survivors and assess their credibility face to face. > >Even though I was the author of one of those alternate histories, and even >though the piece below is somewhat better than the lazy reportage found in >national press at the time, I didn't get it=85it didn't hit me how bad this >really was. [214 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=2732978&hilit=CONSPIRACY+MEDIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&2746394 Score: 80 Subject: Re: WSJ: Loans to Firms w. Clinton Ties