George Humphrey Critiques PBS Frontline Documentary on Waco Siege
Former Austin City Council member George Humphrey joins the program to address a PBS Frontline documentary titled "Waco: The Inside Story." Humphrey characterizes the program as blatantly dishonest and a misrepresentation of the 1993 siege at Mount Carmel. He argues that while local KLRU staff are well-intentioned, the national PBS production deleted pertinent information regarding the survivors. Humphrey emphasizes that the constitutional rights of the Branch Davidians must be protected to ensure the rights of all citizens.
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00:01 I love Mike Hanson Archives. Get ready to join it! Hello Austin, Texas. I'm assuming we are back here on Monday night We have an excellent show lined up for tonight Let me introduce my guest, actually co-hosting the night will be Galen Ross a familiar face down here who just made the show offer of Who's Who Of The Elite? Where he'll talking about some of these new appointments
00:57 and other different things. And a new fella in the studio with us today, former city council member George Humphrey who has well I guess been saying some things over the last three or four years, George and he gave us a call, wanted to come down talk to us tonight about some things that happened on a KLRU program this last week in response kind of to our Waco show two weeks ago And I want to welcome George Humphrey to the studio tonight, George. I really do. I've been watching your show for the last couple of years and Jeff, I really appreciate your courage in getting this show out You work on a shoestring and yet you get out an incredible amount of information Now that I'm watching it thinking about coming out on this show when you and I have talked but i was going to hold off This last week I saw a show on PBS on KLRU
01:52 which just infuriated me so much. I've got a little bit of Irish blood in me that, you know...I called you that night and we talked about it It was on the Frontline series which is pretty good series I watched over the years and it was called Waco The Inside Story And everything about Waco I'm interested because there's a lot to learn A bunch my friends all go together and I thought wow PBS they might do fairly balanced job on The program came on and within about three minutes it was extremely clear that the information was blatantly dishonest, and that they were misrepresenting facts. And through the whole show is that this continuance of deleting pertinent information or misrepresenting a story was consistent. Now I've been a supporter of PBS and KLRU for years
02:46 And I really appreciate, and know a lot of people down there. And the people here in Austin are very good people so what I'm saying is that this is not an attack on the local KLRU people because people at KLRU locally are good people and they're trying to get the truth out This was a PBS show that was being to them And I think it's...I came down and watched your show the other day, and we had Clive on it, Catherine, the survivors of Waco. And I'll tell you what if any of you people out there are even interested in what is going on and getting to know Clive and Catherine some of these survivors these people are good honest simple aware
03:29 people that we would be proud to have as our next door neighbors and have as good friends. I was very, very impressed by the honesty and integrity of Clive he is a fine gentleman And the fact is there's been murders political murder going on for hundreds years growing up they were in Guatemala or India or China some place like that In last couple year it has been Nicaragua even Mexico But now the murders aren't outside of the United States, they're here in the United States. And it's not up in New York City, It's right down the street in Waco Texas to people who even though they have a different religious symbolism than I do and many other people do
04:14 And they have every right to do that. That's what our Constitution is about, having the right to worship God in your own way and these people are honest, full of integrity and trying to do the right thing So when I called Jeff up the other day, I said it was really important we go over the points that KLRU and PBS on this Frontline series misrepresented. So there's about 8 points, I'm sure you're going to think of about 3 or 4 other points that I don't have here and I know you know about this but the first one that was never ever mentioned in the show was neither the FBI, ATF nor any of the other law enforcement agencies and there were several
04:58 never had a legal search warrant. Habeas corpus was completely ignored and the big lie was that this was a totally illegal unconstitutional raid, and I think we need to talk about this because if we don't protect constitutional rights for everyone including people who are politically incorrect then for everyone else we lose our constitutional rights. There has never been shown a search warrant. Now, it's my understanding that about three days before the ATF tried to get a search warrant but it was only for one day and it was completely invalid there was no search warrants and so our Justice Department condoned this attack without even going through constitutional habeas corpus and that is perhaps
06:00 One of the greatest issues that this show the Jeff Davis show talks about is a protection of rights for everybody Let me just let me just answer when was this? This was this plane lab about last Last Monday or Tuesday. And it's a national show that they put together for all the PBS across the country? Yes. And then it just happened that this Central Texas Public, PBS played at this time My information is and I called up KLRU and then I called up PBS Is that it was produced by a station in Boston and that it played one time about eight or nine months ago here in Austin
06:43 I didn't see it, i didn't hear anything about and they played again. My first knowledge of that was just a couple days ago and I know that you got several calls on it and I called the station found out what's going on in the people at the station Maria Rodriguez who is the station person in control programming said this was first call she'd gotten then I think several other people called her there were several calls Now, do you think... so in your opinion George is it just coincidence then or does it happen to play week after week? Because we raise a pretty good ruckus on this town. On this issue like the week before. Jeff your show two weeks ago or ten days ago or whatever was with some of the survivors of Waco was my opinion the finest show that you've ever done because
07:33 The facts speak for themselves, the truth speaks for themselves. When you see Clive, when you see Catherine, when you see Clive's mother who is 75 or 80 years old and she has a strong spirit but she speaks the truth These people are not terrorists, they're not breaking laws. They were people who were searching for God in community and taking care of their own business and there was a premeditated attack and they believe a premeditate massacre and murder of those people Now the question is why? And you've done... both of you have I mean
08:10 your patriots in the very finest sense of the word having the courage to stand up and talk about facts which is what our constitution is supposed to be about. Absolutely, now let's get into some of this specifics because I know we've got some Some of your specifics, are these specifics that you found? Yeah. These are seven other points within the show in places and one of the greatest things about this show was the deletion of pertinent facts that this show left out Now we've got these ready to go here George
