LibertyNovember 1999
The smoke is clearing -It's so rare any good
news comes out of Washington D.C., but six years after the incineration of 86 people, including 24 children, at the Branch Davidian "compound" (that's what your home becomes when government agents mount an assault on it) in Waco, there finally appears to be an actual investigation afoot. As I'm sure you've heard, the FBI has admitted it used "pyrotechnic devices" during the massacre, and there's every likelihood that its agents actually started the fires. The FBI confession came only after Texas Ranger investigators uncovered new evidence that forced them to admit they'd been engaged in a coverup since the April 19, 1993 incident. Of course we may never know what really went on there, since the evidence was bulldozed, in contrast to usual practice at crime scenes.
Congress is reopening hearings on the matter, and Janet Reno has started yet another investigation within her department. This is not enough. The best way to get to the bottom of it is to put Janet Reno, who gave the orders, and other of oficials on trial for murder. Of course this is unlikely to happen, because neither major party wants to challenge the doctrine of "sovereign immunity," a concept held over from medieval