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Some people had amazing prescience of the future horrific events.
Nineteen children left the Mt. Carmel Center in the early days of the siege, and were put in the care of the Methodist Children's Home in Waco. An interview with the psychiatrist who worked with the children, Dr. Bruce Perry, was published on January 4, 2018 by ABC News (cached).
Dr. Perry claimed that the Davidian children knew ahead of time that the siege would end in fire.
Perry said he also observed startling behavior foreshadowing the events of April 19. He said the children sang apocalyptic songs and drew 'end of days'-type imagery. "Younger kids would draw a picture of the compound with fire coming out of it and I'd say, 'What's that?' And they'd say, 'That's none of your business. You'll find out,'" Perry said.
This information is surely not startling. The Davidians believed in the Apocalypse, a religious prediction that the world will end in fire.
Francis X. Leahy, whom The Dallas Morning News described as an "independent religious researcher," submitted a 40-page analysis on the Waco siege to the FBI on April 8, 1993, just eleven days before the inferno. On page 39 of the report, Leahy predicted:
"The standoff, as it now exists, will end after Sunday, April 18th, which will complete the seven week cycle for tribulations. At the completion of that cycle an angel of the Lord is to give an analysis of the situation, and tell David what to do. It must be a fiery ending, and David and a number of his followers must die. "Whether it be on the Sunday marking the beginning of the eighth week, or a day or two later, there will be some aggressive action by the Federal law enforcement officials. Suicide is not written in the book. David and his followers must be slain. That means something must be set up, even if the final conflagration is caused internally, it must be because of some act of the law enforcement officials ..." (Chicago Tribune, April 23, 1993 (cached).
News of Leahy's remarkable prediction was published in The Dallas Morning News, April 22, 1993. Leahy predicted a fire on April 18, 19, or 20, and he was right. He predicted a fire after some "aggressive action" by the US, and he was right about that, too.
Coincidentally, Francis X. Leahy was married to Joyce Sparks, the Child Protective Services social worker who investigated the child abuse charges against the Davidians ...
If foreknowledge of the fire by the Davidian children is evidence of Davidian planning and intent, foreknowledge by FBI commanders of the fire must also be evidence of planning and intent. For example, as the Dallas News reported:
April 5 [1993] ... In a phone message to FBI headquarters, Waco tactical commanders say they won't try to fight fires that break out if there is a gas assault. (Dallas News, Feb 27, 2018, cached)
"If" there is a gas assault, the FBI won't try to fight the resulting fires??
It is pretty clear: The FBI commanders knew about plans for the gas attack, and knew that it might cause a fire. Imagine public servants planning a strategy that might set fire to a building full of mothers and children. And imagine those same commanders declaring two weeks in advance that when a fire started, they would not even try put out the fire to save those lives.
That statement could be presented in a criminal trial as evidence of premeditated murder.
Sure enough, when the FBI gassed the building, fire broke out. And when the building was ablaze and the fire trucks arrived, the FBI prevented the trucks from reaching the building. Twenty five years later, The Waco Tribune-Herald told the story:
Waco fire Engine 1 and Engine 3 reached a checkpoint attended by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers. The crew was told the scene was not safe and they had to wait while those who escaped the fire were being held at gunpoint in front of the firefighters."When we pulled into Double EE Ranch Road, about halfway down between there and the compound, there were about six to eight people laying there, face down, in handcuffs with people pointing rifles at them," Davis said. After getting the all clear about 15 minutes later, most of the compound was reduced to ash and crumbled remains. As they started their work, they could see the full magnitude of the incident. (Waco Tribune-Herald, April 18, 2018, cached)
As told by the firemen, when they were finally able to approach the building to save lives of the victims, nothing was left but a pile of ashes. Who were the "six to eight people laying there" in handcuffs? We were never told, but none of them were children.
So we have a perfect fit. Given the Davidian belief in the Apocalypse and the prediction of a fiery end, it would not strain public credulity to state that the Davidians had set fire to the Mt. Carmel Center themselves, in order to fulfill Koresh's prediction.
Yet in spite of the government story that many people were killed in the fire, none of the surviving Davidians have been charged with arson. And certainly none of the FBI commanders.
The fire incinerated the victims's bodies and destroyed most of the evidence of the government murders. And all the "cult" and Armagedon rhetoric provided a perfect public relations cover for the fire.
Here we see public relations at work. Let's look at the manual "Doctrine for Joint Special Operations," dated 28 October 1992. It says that because of "political sensitivities," many special operations "especially in peacetime," demand "thorough and accurate" public affairs programs be developed in advance of operations and undertaken before the operations are effected. The purpose is to "integrate accurate representation of the mission to domestic audiences ..." (Chapter V, paragraph 8.) "Domestic audiences" is us, folks. The figure in the cross-hairs of psychological operations is the American citizen.
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