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Extractions: William Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University, said the public divide over Bush's handling of the natural disaster bears considerable resemblance to divisions over Clinton's handling of the standoff with the Branch Davidian followers of David Koresh in Waco early in his presidency, which ended in a fire that killed more than 80 people. Democrats supported Clinton did the best he could "dealing with a crazy man," Mayer said, while Republicans "said this was a massively bungled... (MSNBC News)
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Extractions: The Branch Davidians are a religious group originating from the Seventh-day Adventist church. They are best known because of the siege of the Branch Davidian building near Waco, Texas , by federal agents , which ended in the deaths of eighty of the church's members, including head figure David Koresh and two full-term infants spontaneously delivered as their mothers perished in the flames. Church members did not describe themselves as Branch Davidians. edit In Victor Houteff , a Bulgarian immigrant, claimed that he had a new message for the SDA church . It was submitted in the form of a book entitled "The Shepherd's Rod". His claims were not accepted and were considered schismatic by the leadership because he pointed out what he saw as their departures from basic church teachings and standards. Therefore, he was disfellowshipped from the church. Because of this, he said he formed the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists out of necessity. The term "Davidian" refers to the restoration of the Davidic kingdom, while "Branch" refers to the new name of Christ. In
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Religious Cults In Twentieth Century America Since the (waco) siege, interest in religious cults has revived both in Britain a selfstyled messiah, lived the branch davidians - a breakaway sect from http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/cults.htm
Extractions: Home Page Online Magazine Forum Book reviews ... Response form Since the Waco siege , interest in religious cults has revived both in Britain and America. This article explores the growth and appeal of cults in America and raises questions about the appropriateness of public perceptions. Religious cults in twentieth century America by Dr Anne Eyre Westminster College While it may seem pedantic to spend time arguing about how to define something that seems straightforward, this is not just an academic exercise. It is important to be clear about exactly which groups come under the definition of NRM and which do not, especially if governments consider introducing legislation to curb their activities. We also need to be clear about exactly what activities are considered to be acceptable and unacceptable in society and to be sure that there is sufficient evidence to justify curtailing what some may seem as their religious freedom guaranteed under the constitution. Why do people join such groups? In a modern largely secular society such as America, many find it hard to understand the appeal of religious groups, especially those appearing to adopt strict codes of behaviour and anti-social values. Two types of explanation have been forwarded to explain the rapid growth of NRMs in the 1960s and 1970s.
Behind Waco Rick Ross, who admits to hatred of all religious cults and whose aim is to destroycults Ross got much of his information on the branch davidians from a http://www.b.150m.com/writers/rothbard/waco.html
Extractions: cookie_name="pop1"; cook_value="1!!1127130314"; cook_expires="Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:46:14 GMT"; document.cookie=cookie_name+"="+cook_value+";expires="+cook_expires+";"; Free Web Hosting Web Hosting Free Web Space Web Hosting var sc_project=491757; var sc_partition=3; var sc_invisible=1; Behind Waco November 1993 These days, when the Respectable Media form a virtual monolith, rehashing government press releases and confining the Respectable Spectrum of opinion to the tiny distance from left-center to right-center, truth can often be found only at the "extremes" whether left or right, where anti-Establishment people dare to stray beyond these prescribed limits. So we have to thank leftist Alexander Cockburn , in his column in The Nation (Oct. 18), for straying into Forbidden Ground in reporting on the story behind the terrible Waco massacre. Cockburn cites the report of Nancy Ammerman, of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, who was recruited by the Justice and Treasury Departments to review internal documents on the Waco case, in preparation for their own whitewash report on Waco. Professor Ammerman ignored sound cautionary advice from religion experts and from the FBI's own Behavioral Science Services Unit. Instead, the BATF and FBI relied heavily on the sinister Cult Awareness Network (CAN), which kept goading the federal authorities to use maximal force against the Branch Davidians. Thus, in April, before the Waco holocaust, CAN president Patricia Ryan was quoted in the Houston Chronicle as calling for the arrest of David Koresh, using lethal force if necessary.
Extractions: PDF format WSWS North America Use this version to print The WSWS is here republishing the statement which first appeared in The International Workers Bulletin , the printed newspaper of the Socialist Equality Party and forerunner of the World Socialist Web Site In the days following the incineration of 86 people, including 25 children, at the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, the explanations supplied by the Clinton administration and the FBI for launching the assault have begun to fall apart. Administration spokesmen like Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI Director William Sessions and Clinton himself have flatly contradicted each other on the circumstances of the attack, its timing and motivation. The claims that the final assault on the religious cult was carried out to save the lives of the children or to stop their sexual abuse by Koresh have no credibility. The assault was mounted in a fashion which was deliberately provocative and with wanton disregard for the innocent lives which were placed in danger. There is no indication that FBI and Justice Department officials gave the slightest consideration to how the 25 children, including 17 under 10 years of age, could be saved, and there were no special tactics devised for this purpose. The FBI did not even call the Waco fire department until after the blaze began.
Extractions: WHY WACO? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America JAMES D. TABOR AND EUGENE V. GALLAGHER University of California Press. 252 pp. $24.95. THE ASHES OF WACO An Investigation DICK J. REAVIS Like the Good Book itself, the 51-day siege that ended in fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, has become a mirror. Each group that tells the story sees its own agenda in the glass. To advocates of the Second Amendment, it is an example of a government gone mad in restricting gun rights; to the religious right, a lesson in the dangers of cults; to a Republican-controlled Congress, an embarrassment for a Democratic administration to be played up at election time. Like David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians, all groups purport to hold the ``truth,'' and all should be looked upon with a skeptical eye. Two books have recently been added to the flood of words surrounding this tragedy. But unlike the rush-to-market tabloid-style thrillers that have gone before, these books are the result of thoughtful investigation and a desire to present a balanced view.
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Extractions: The following report and recommendations are based largely on oral briefings conducted on July 1-2 at the Justice Department, as well as on August 3 at the Treasury Department and at the FBI Training Academy at Quantico. In addition, I have had access to a number of other sources. We were supplied with background information on many of the persons in the Investigative Support Unit, and I was supplied with a list of the experts consulted by the FBI during the affair. I have consulted with academic colleagues and have reviewed a good deal of the academic literature on New Religious Movements. Various political and lobbying groups have sent me information. I talked with Glenn Hilburn at Baylor, and I spent two hours with Pete Smerick and Gregg McCrary at the FBI Academy. I do not pretend that this represents a full accounting of what happened at Waco. That has not been my aim. Rather, what follows attempts to assess the nature and quality of the expert advice available to the agencies involved in this situation and to make some suggestions about how that advice might better be utilized in the future.
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Extractions: The assault on an apocalyptic religious sect calling themselves the Branch Davidians, in the tumbleweed flatlands of Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993, followed in the grand tradition of American law enforcement mayhem. This proud heritage includes such landmarks as the incineration of the Symbionese Liberation Army house in Los Angeles; the aerial firebombing of the black-separatist MOVE organization's communal apartment complex in Philadelphia - still the only American city ever to have been bombed from the air; and the Chicago police's 4 a.m. assault on Fred Hampton, riddling the Black Panther boss with bullets while he was sleeping in his own bed. The Waco massacre that claimed the lives of eighty-six sect members (and a handful of federal agents) at the Branch Davidians' compound was more than a tad paramilitary. But the incident may have had much in common with the slaughter at Jonestown, Guyana, fifteen years earlier. Either it was a mass suicide - or mass murder by the government, which then tried to blame the victims for their own deaths. In the six-week staredown before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI went gonzo on the "cultist," the media flooded the nation with imprecations, encouraged by the authorities, that the Branch Davidians - led by the "Wacko from Waco" David Koresh (AKA Vernon Howell) - were likely to commit mass suicide at any time, just like those Jonestown nuts. Of course, given the feds' aural assault on the Davidians, the Kool-Aid solution may not have appeared an unwelcome option. Replicating a technique used four years earlier to flush Manuel Noriega from his sanctuary, the feds blared an earsplitting mishmash of noise that included the sound of rabbits being slaughtered, chanting Tibetan monks, roaring jet engines, and the Nancy Sinatra hit, "These Boots Were Made For Walking."
PE174 agents planned to hold siege and wait for the branch davidians to surrender.The leader of the religious cult, who had previously changed his birthname http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe174.htm
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FBI Library Why (waco)? cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. Events Surroundingthe branch Davidian cult Standoff in (waco), Texas. http://fbilibrary.fbiacademy.edu/Templates/B=wacorevisited.htm
Extractions: Abstract: Republicans still hope to use the hearings into the April 1993 Branch Davidian tragedy at Waco, TX, to tarnish Attorney General Janet Reno's image, but the most notable witness at the hearings thus far was a girl who gave testimony on David Koresh's sex crimes. Reno's role in the Waco affair is examined.
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Extractions: showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Personalities Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping David Koresh Personalities Source David Koresh Religious Figure Name at birth: Vernon Wayne Howell Timothy McVeigh chose the second anniversary of the fire as the date to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people... Lois Roden's son, George, battled Koresh for control of the church, a feud that culminated in a shoot-out. Koresh and seven others were charged with attempted murder, but Koresh's case was declared a mistrial (the others were acquitted). George went on to commit murder and was sentenced to a prison for the criminally insane. FOUR GOOD LINKS Waco: The Inside Story
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Extractions: Holley, who grew up in Waco and is now based in Austin, is a former editor of The Texas Observer and a former press secretary for Governor Ann Richards. Bob Lott, the fifty-one-year-old editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, was settling into his chair for yet another interview with an out-of-town journalist when a voice over the newsroom loudspeaker announced that the water in the Tribune-Herald would be off for an hour. On the street below Lott's second-floor office, workmen could be seen jackhammering into the pavement. "CIA or FBI?" the editor wondered aloud, chuckling. Lott had reason to feel besieged. Since the last weekend in February, when the Tribune-Herald launched its extraordinary seven-part series about a secretive, little-known religious cult that calls itself Branch Davidian, he and his colleagues have been buffeted by an avalanche of letters, faxes, phone calls, and around-the-world requests for interviews and information. Suddenly, they find themselves in the uncomfortable glare of publicity and scrutiny that comes with being caught up in a major news story. It was an unfamiliar role for what Lott calls "a small-town paper" in an unprepossessing Texas town whose chief claims to fame had been as the home of Baylor University and as the birthplace of Dr Pepper and Steve Martin. In the 100-year history of the Tribune-Herald, only a 1953 tornado that swept away Waco's downtown and claimed 114 lives rivals the impact of the Branch Davidian story.
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Extractions: David Koresh Reversal These reversals were found on David Koresh only days after the seige in Waco began. Two reversals occur. They are: "We're sad. Look what's happened" and "We see the meaning with my blood. The answer's soon." Both of these reversals were submitted to the FBI during the seige along with my report suggesting that a diaster would occur if the FBI and ATF did not leave. I also stated that David Koresh would leave if either his grandmother or mother were allowed in. Neither events happened. WACO Article Officials flooded with tips, insights on Koresh, his message By David McLemore / The Dallas Morning News WACO-The callers believe that Armageddon is at hand and that they can help federal authorities break the siege at the Branch Davidian compound east of Waco. The siege by federal and state authorities of more than 100 followers of David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidian sect, at their compound has prompted a flood of phone calls to authorities offering help in understanding Mr. Koresh's apocalyptic message. Sociologists say the extensive media coverage of the siege offers people with similar beliefs a relatively painless way to spread their religious message.
Cults, Religion, And Violence - Cambridge University Press Cults, Religion, and Violence. Edited by David G. Bromley the last decadethe tragic conflagration that engulfed the branch davidians in (waco), Texas; http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521660645
Extractions: Click the book to go to her Waco page. Carol Moore has dedicated a tremendous amount of her time and life investigating, writing and protesting the events that unfolded in Waco. I don't know any key players involved in this tragedy that haven't read this book. It's a 'must have' before any serious conclusions on Waco can be reached. Carol is also the founder of the
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Extractions: I personally saw an incendiary fly through into the second story window. Three others reported seeing footage where the tank rove over a gas tank, exploding it. I represent several family members and Branch Davidians. I have talked with several Branch Davidians.They are not glazed over moonie-type crazies. They are
