Mount Carmel Siege, Twentieth Anniversary of Waco Tragedy
Jeff Davis and Gary Johnson discuss the upcoming 20th anniversary of the April 19, 1993, siege at Mount Carmel near Waco, Texas. They recount the initial ATF raid on February 28, 1993, alleging that federal agents fired from helicopters and killed Winston Blake while he was eating. The discussion characterizes the 51-day standoff as a period of government propaganda and law enforcement misconduct, specifically citing the use of tanks to collapse buildings occupied by men, women, and children.
mount carmel· waco· branch davidians· david koresh· fbi· atf
00:00 guest right now is a jeff davis who is uh... patiently been the standing by in the japan i want to thank you for being with us here on little that we're going to be talking with you about uh... many things but one of the biggest thing that's happening jeff is this april uh... is the twentieth anniversary of the siege uh... at mount carmel uh... with the david correction the branch to be in the near waco texas i get this is uh... this is really something that we should not allow people to forget well it's i'd like i consider one of the darkest deadly moments their period of time and history of american law enforcement i don't think there's any question about it
00:47 Absolutely. April 19th is a big day and there actually, we'll talk about this after the break, there are several events that are going on and you mentioned Mike Hanson earlier. Actually Mike Hanson's arranging to have the people from austin go up to uh... waco on that it will not be uh... to market this anniversary and i know that you and i know there's a gone too anniversaries of uh... the tragedy at mount carmel the repeated that other survivors
01:24 uh... there they are uh... the really the nicest people you'd ever want to know their very peaceful and uh... honest in this straightforward people it's really a tragedy jeff what happened Well, just starting back Gary with on February 28th of 1993. Clive Doyle one of the Branch Davidian survivors The Jeff Davis Show did a special show subtitled Justice for the Davidians on November 1996 And Clive Doyle stated on the show that bullets were flying in to Mount Carmel building from the roof and through the wall. Branch Davidian, Winston's plate
02:12 was shot in the head and killed instantly while sitting in a room eating a piece of toast. Jeff is somebody who has been following the situation that occurred in Waco 20 years ago, I should say near Waco, 20 years ago at Mount Carmel with David Koresh and The Branch Davidians and the standoff with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms, the ATF and the federal bureau of investigation, the FBI. The siege that began with more than a hundred armed agents coming onto this farm and shooting... And from helicopters! Don't forget. Yeah, coming in from the roof and the walls.
03:10 It was just an all out attack is what it was. An all out attack, absolutely Jeff. Winston Blake was shot in the head and killed instantly while he was eating a piece of toast That was February 28th what happened. And then from that day began a series of just outright atrocious lies in these daily FBI news conferences They would, the first day they said oh well there's child abuse in there. Well that was proven wrong Texas Child Protective Services investigated it and said it was completely baseless
03:58 uh... that next day they come out and they said all well there's a legal guns in the air and now what occurred there was one rifle but neither two hundred dollar tax to make it illegal then they come out and they said there is not glad that they were and apply their final day they come out may say at the or perfect day while this weather good enough so let's try their david crash steady with g that they pay you it was just absolutely atrocious what uh... fbi with those daily fbi news conference what they were doing just absolute bold-faced lies and unfortunately much of the american public bought
04:44 Because my recollection Gary is that the Jeff Davis show live and let live and smash the state with a three only. The media advocates there were against the whole thing from the beginning, i think there was a talk show host as well and can't remember his name in the dallas yeah i know you're talking about it but you are you that media was just buying this hook line and finger and passing along the government propaganda without question. that's exactly right it was absolutely a it would just like they do the same thing book and uh... preparation of some war world overseas saying kind of playing then that's one of the reasons why don't have to but all hold up at the media high-esteem from from the first day there were six dividends killed
05:41 uh... and then fifty one days of basically torture now carmel facility was uh... completely surrounded with the razor wire there's no way anybody could come out uh... the people had clive doyle stated on that The Jeff Davis show in 1996 that they had arranged for them to come out, but the FBI reneged on it. And then finally getting to the April 19th of 1993 basically what happened was that this was this was uh... uh... verified in a associated press story that appeared the austin american statesman on april nineteenth nineteen ninety three uh... tanker at tank drivers were given orders to jump into tanks and to drive those tanks into buildings occupied by men women and children
06:45 And 17 children died this way from blunt force trauma to the head, from the building and the crushing down on these people when the tanks came through. this with this this this action was verified and stated in court when the branch a few years later when the branch to be into where the ones on trial should have been the other way around that but government drive the tank until the children but at the end of the wonders on trial but this is one of the tank drivers are stated in this associate oppressed or stated in court he testified in court that he would give an order
07:28 to get jump into a tank and proceed to drive that take into buildings occupied by american men women and children this is the hostage rescue team they were there to rescue their workday well go back to will it was at the time uh... and remains one of the classic the all-time biggest issues of for the jeff davis show and so i did the idea to be in these people mean you know they said this is not an assault as we were solving the blame really was uh... a tragedy that should not be forgotten and uh... there are some event jim they're going to be held too uh... mark
