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lettherightrobin · 8 months

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guns of the branch davidian cult

vhs, 1991

#branch davidian #cult #david koresh #true crime #waco #waco siege #guns #gun

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kazimirkharza · 1 year

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Worse than Waco

What transpired between members of the Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement in Waco is one of those moments where the government showed its true colours, but there’s an an even worse case.

After prior years of harassment and abuse (including murder) at the hands of law enforcement. MOVE, a christian anarcho-primitivist communal organisation, was besieged by nearly five hundred police officers on 5/13/1985.

Arresting & detaining have been among the tactics pigs used to either destroy MOVE or chase them out of the city. The reasons were racism (most MOVE members were black), and the organisation's activism related to the injustices of the American "justice" system among other things.

MOVE was started by John Africa (pictured bellow), who came up with their philosophical underpinnings, but was not a leader in any traditional sense. These beliefs included a love for all life, state abolition, self defence, soberness, eating fresh raw food, and staying active.

On that day in 1985, neighbouring buildings were evacuated as an army of pigs showed up to arrest MOVE. Water and electricity was shut off. Police used more than ten thousand rounds of ammo before cops decided the compound be bombed (yes, literally). A helicopter dropped two bombs that caused a fire. The ensuing fire killed 11 of the 13 people in the house (John Africa, 5 other adults, and five children). Ramona Africa, the only adult survivor, said that police fired at those trying to escape. The fire destroyed over 60 other buildings.

In '96 a federal jury ordered the city to pay a $1.5 million civil suit judgment to survivor Ramona Africa and relatives of 2 people killed in the bombing. The city used excessive force and violated the members' constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

If you wish to learn more about MOVE, I recommend their booklet "25 years on the Move", available for free at Anarchist Library.

“All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have lean air, clean water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, ‘die’.” - John Africa

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surfingkaliyuga · 6 months

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“Waco” David Palumbo 2018 Illustration for the April issue of Texas Monthly.

#painting #illustration #waco #david koresh #waco siege #branch davidians #mount carmel center #fbi #atf #usa

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theexodvs · 5 months

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Even if Spain was responsible for the destruction of the USS Maine (it wasn't), the Spanish-American War was worse.

Pearl Harbor was bad. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were worse.

The policies Allende would have implemented would have been bad. The US installing Pinochet was worse.

What David Koresh did was bad. What the FBI did in response was worse.

9/11 was bad. The War on Terror is worse.

Many of the things Sadaam did were bad. Bush's lies about WMDs, and the war these lies justified, were worse.

What Hamas did was bad. What the IDF is doing in response is worse.

This isn't hard, people.

#disproportionate retribution #spanish american war #USS Maine #Pearl har #Nagasaki #Hiroshima #Salvador All #augusto pinochet #Pinochet #David K 0 resh #Waco Siege #War on Terror #Sadaam #George Bush #Bush 43 #War in Iraq #WMD #israel hamas war

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girl-xinterrupted · 10 months

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Visit to Mt. Carmel. Such an erie experience.

#waco Texas #Waco siege #David koresh #atf

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lutawolf · 1 year

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You guys... It's been 30 years.

#waco siege #the survivors are still branwashed #fbi fucked this up so bad #why most fbi are now very careful about doing warrants in the south because there was enough weapons to fight back against the fbi #Youtube

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tippytheclown1 · 1 year

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I feel very welcome to the Tumblr community.

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lamafeeling · 2 years

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#fuck the atf #waco incident #waco texas #atf police #meme #waco siege #waco door #we know who shot first #guns

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aztrosist666 · 3 months

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id go to school if:

THIS was the teacher 😍😍

THIS was the campus 😇😇

THIS was the bus 😁😁

THIS was the textbook 😎😎

#im coping with my research paper okay #waco siege #🐋

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lettherightrobin · 8 months

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mt. carmel

waco, texas

before and after the siege

vhs, 1991

#waco #waco texas #waco siege #branch davidians #true crime #david koresh #american south #southern gothic #cult #cult leader

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infamousbrad · 1 year

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It's the 30th anniversary of the end of the Branch Davidian siege at Waco, and the news coverage hasn't gotten any better since.

I have a weirdly privileged view of those events, not unique, but pretty unusual. I had recently bought a house that came with a Big Ugly Dish, one of those old-fashioned 10-foot diameter aimable satellite antennae. Back then, the way that stations like NBC or CNN covered unfolding events in remote areas was to send a camera crew and a satellite uplink, and stream the footage in real time back to the studio in New York for editing. And back then the raw feeds were entirely unencrypted. So if you had a big ugly dish, you could watch the unfiltered live stream of any major news event.

I was glued to this story from the day it started. From the first day of the siege, I was expecting the worst, because unlike most Americans, I knew something about the Clinton administration's Attorney General, Janet Reno, namely how she got the job. During the transition team, Hillary Clinton was assigned by her husband to expand the pool of qualified female candidates for cabinet-level positions, and Hillary seized on Janet Reno because, like Hillary, she was "committed to protecting children."

The reason that Janet Reno was considered "committed to protecting children" was that she was an early adopter and enthusiastic promoter of the Satanic Ritual Abuse conspiracy theory, the one we now know as Q-Anon.

Over the first couple of days of the siege, it came out that the Branch Davidian raid had started out as an international child-custody dispute. A group of three Australian ex-spouses of Branch Davidians had filed for sole custody in their home country on the grounds that the children were being brainwashed into a cult, and got it, but the US Justice Department always reflexively sides with the American parent and declined to honor the Australian court order. So when the Australian spouses came to Washington to lobby for themselves, Reno didn't even agree to meet with them, not at first. Then, and only then, did they start circulating the "David Koresh rapes children as part of cult rituals" story.

That caught Janet Reno's attention, all right.

In planning the arrests and the search of the compound, the Justice Department turned up the fact that David Koresh was popular with local law enforcement, so that ruled out ordering the local sheriffs to carry out the arrest and search. They also found out that one of the residents was a federally licensed machine-gun dealer who stored machine guns on the premises, so that ruled out sending the Marshals or the FBI, because they weren't willing to send their agents up against someone with machine guns, so it fell to the ATF. Also, any attempt to arrest Koresh in town was ruled out, or even to knock and announce, because Reno wanted to make sure that any evidence of cult-ritual child-rape was preserved.

As the ATF were storming the compound, a shot rang out, an ATF agent was shot in the leg, and the rest of the ATF agents lit the place up, and the Davidians returned fire.

I forget how long it was after that, not much more than a couple of days, before someone inside the compound got ahold of CNN by phone. (Land-line. Cellphones were still pretty rare then.) They said that they saw the ATF coming and were prepared for a siege, but that they knew for a fact that none of their people had fired the first shot, that the first shot was friendly fire, probably accidental. (There's some evidence supporting this theory, I won't go into it because this is already too long.)

When the reporter told them that cops had been shot in the exchange of fire, the Davidians said that they were afraid to surrender, now -- that as accused cop-killers, they were afraid that an excuse would be made to shoot them as soon as they came out the door or let the FBI (who had taken over the scene by then) in. So they asked CNN to send in one reporter to come out with them, figuring that the FBI might be willing to murder "cultists" but wouldn't have the guts to murder a reporter on-air.

Reno ordered the FBI to keep reporters out, claiming she believed they would be used as hostages. She also ordered the phone line cut.

You know most of the rest. I watched it live. The FBI used specially designed tanks to gas them out. The gas in question is frequently lethal to children and the FBI knew that the Davidians had no child-sized gas masks, but justified the gas on the grounds that the parents would know this and that would make them rush the children to safety. But they were still afraid of getting shot as suspected cop-killers, so almost nobody fled.

The tanks set the compound on fire, almost certainly accidentally, probably by knocking over kerosene lanterns inside as they punched holes in the walls and igniting the hay bales the Davidians had piled up as bullet-catchers. Almost nobody escaped alive.

Janet Reno kept her job, because all the right people concluded that she was right to want to Save the Children and No Reasonable Person Could Have Foreseen This Outcome. And the dominoes keep falling, are still falling to this day.

#waco siege #1993 #fuck Hillary Clinton

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playitagin · 1 year

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Waco siege

1993年 - 米テキサス州・ウェーコのブランチ・ダビディアン本部にFBIの特殊部隊が突入. In total, the 51-day siege resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and 82 Branch Davidians, 28 of whom were children.

#Apr.19.1993 #Waco siege #Branch Davidian #デビッド・コレッシュ #Waco #Waco massacre #ATF

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dianedardashti · 2 years

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City apologizes for lynching of Jesse Washington

May 15th marks the 100th anniversary what’s known by many as The Waco Horror, the lynching of 17 –year-old Jesse Washington.

The City of Waco commemorated the day with a proclamation as well as delivering an official apology.

Mayor Malcom Duncan Jr. said the city issued an apology because they need to ‘own up,’ to their past transgressions.

“We profoundly regret and condemn any instances where a citizen of Waco has not received equal protection under the law,” Duncan said

#Waco siege #i cant breathe #racialggaps #policeviolence

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bixels · 3 months

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Gunsmith cats being on your favourites makes sense.. Your art style feels like it. Do you take inspiration from it?

That's funny. I haven't taken particular stylistic inspiration from it. I like the action, I like the cars, I like the short story format. It definitely captures what I love about 90s OVAs, where budget and energy is spent primarily on simple but flashy/stylish scenes with fantastic depth and character animation.

#ask me #anon #the politics of this ova are interesting too #at first glance it seems like a very anti-gun control story but it's really about american politicians hiding behind seemingly #progressive policies to enact unprogressive agendas like “cleaning up illegal immigrants”#also the atf aren't even the bad guys in this story. they're actually pretty chill which surprised me because the atf was EXTREMELY #unpopular when this anime was made/released. 2 years after the waco siege

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saltyfilmmajor · 2 months

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Is the lore lodge on YouTube sus or nah asking for a me

#I want to watch this video but I’m worried this is another wendigoon situation #like I also distrust the government but not in the right wing way 😂😭#the reason I ask is because this guy was talking about the hevans gate cult #and mentioned the book of revelations being something that he’s reading for his own spiritual reasons and up until that point #I thought this guy was just another true crime channel #it gave me the exact same vibes as when wendigoon talked about the Waco siege and mentioned that he’s Christian #it’s very hard to explain because of my own. upbringing but #oh never mind this guy is wearing a cross necklace 😂#guess I’ll look up this case independently

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thedeliaishere · 3 months

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Why are people taking the Texas shit seriously this happens every time a dem is in office

#worst case scenario its a waco siege type event

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