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Heads Up
A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia
September 19, 1999 #152
by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net
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THEY THINK WE'RE THE ENEMY
According to Janet Reno, the FBI did
not have enough people in their Hostage Rescue (squad fire)
Team to wait out the Branch Dividends. That is, the FBI
got tired of being there after 50 straight days and wanted
to end it.
So, to insure a situation like that would not
happen again, Janet Reno planned for at least six more FBI
squad fire teams -- one for each of six designated
geographical regions. The HRT members routinely refer to
the regions as "war zones."
This is all very hush, hush, top-secret stuff
at Justice, but some say FBI can now field about 300 well
trained warriors. And that, without using (hardly any)
active military people.
Except, these actually are almost active
military people. That is, they train with military special
operations groups, eat with military special operations
groups, dress like military special operations groups, and
so on. Their pay check is cut from a different federal
office. That is the only distinction.
Oh, and they also have use of a Special
Operations classified Army aviation unit used almost
exclusively for covert missions; which is conveniently
based next to the Quantico FBI Academy. And that area just
happens to be, also coincidentally, where the military
trains certain types of covert special operations people.
So, we went looking for training manuals. One
reasonably adequate one is at:
http://earthops.org/sovereign/urban_warfare This is
FM 90-10, titled "Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain
(MOUT)." In Army-speak, it is about "those military actions
planned and conducted on a terrain complex where manmade
construction impacts on the tactical options available to
commanders."
We found Appendix G: "How To Attack And Clear
Buildings," quite interesting because it seems to describe
the actions of those many military practice attacks carried
out on urban areas around the country over the past couple
years. Interestingly enough, it also diagrams the methods
the BATF tried to use at Waco.
For instance, the first instruction is: "Shoot
Door Open."
When the door is open, the next instruction is:
"Toss Grenade." However, "avoid, unless absolutely
necessary." Because, "throwing grenades at upper windows
or upstairs; they may bounce back. Use grenades before
entering the building, basement, and all rooms. Vigorously
throw grenades into rooms so they carom about, denying the
enemy an opportunity to throw them back."
OK. So, now they get to go into the room:
"Enter Firing and Search Room. Use automatic
fire when entering and clearing a room. Do not open doors
by hand or attempt to kick them open. Shoot the door open
by firing several rounds through the lock or blow the door
in with explosives. In buildings with lightly constructed
interior walls/floors use M16 and M60 fires to clear rooms
by firing through walls, ceilings, and floors. M60
machineguns with their heavier bullet are very effective in
this role."
Then the manual admonishes: "Vary Techniques
of Clearing Room. Avoid set patterns of clearing; vary
entry methods from room to room and floor to floor."
So, that's how the FBI Hostage "Rescue" squads are trained.
Well, that and sniping -- killing from a distance.
Various styles of this training have also
become popular with State and local police department SWAT
teams throughout the country. One informative study on the
topic was recently released by the Cato Institute: "Warrior
Cops, the Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American
Police Departments," by Diane Cecilia Weber.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp50.pdf
The Cato report states that there are at least
459 major SWAT teams around the country, half the personnel
of which were trained by the military. Worse, most are
equipped with all sorts of military weapons (even Army
tanks), compliments of the federal government.
"SWAT team members undergo rigorous training
similar to that given military special operations units,"
the report says. And, "SWAT teams are taking on the
warrior mentality of our military's special forces."
So, with all those well trained attack teams
out on the street, it should be no surprise that "SWAT
teams have a strong incentive to expand their original
'emergency' mission into more routine policing activities
to justify their existence."
The problem is, police officers are not supposed
to be warriors. The military are trained to apply maximum
force to kill people and break things. Police are supposed
to apprehend suspects using the minimum possible force and
observing the suspect's Constitutional rights. These are
not compatible tasks.
Because of this warrior mentality, many people
are killed each year by SWAT teams. It's time to take all
their Army toys away and make them cops again.
Meanwhile, look over the Texas Ranger report
on the extent of military ordnance used at Waco
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/ and see just how bad the
warrior police mentality has become. Then, find some
authority in the Constitution for the federal government to
use these paramilitary special operations units on American
citizens.
It ain't there.
WATCHING THE WACO COVER UP
"Madam Speaker, in 1993, 86 civilians were
killed in Waco , Texas. Twenty-four of them were innocent
children. Most of them burned to death. Until this day,
no one knows the truth about Waco, and the reason is quite
clear. The FBI lied and the Attorney General of the United
States lied. They lied and they covered it up. And after
all of these lies, no one, nobody, has been held accountable
for the massacre at Waco." So said Rep. Traficant (D-OH)
to the House on September 8, 1999.
So, the Washington insiders decided they would
hire John C. Danforth, former Senator and Washington
insider, to investigate. The Justice Department and FBI
can't be trusted to investigate themselves, so a politician
gets the gig.
And, being a politician, the first order of
business for Danforth was to get on every Sunday morning
TV talk show to tell America that he is not going to talk
about the investigation until it's over.
Oh, and Danforth also wanted to inform us what
his "independent" investigation would investigate. He said
he would be looking at "bad acts" not "bad judgment." He
said he would be looking for the "dark questions" of
whether government agents started the fire at the compound
in Waco, whether agents fired the bullets that killed
members of the sect and whether the government covered up
information.
However, it was off camera that Danforth made
the most important statements. For instance, he will not
try to answer questions of motive such as: Why did the ATF
initiate the confrontation of the Davidians in the first
place? Or, were the tactics used by the government, such
as the use of loudspeakers to psychologically upset the
Davidians, proper? Nor will he ask why the FBI moved in on
the compound as they did.
Possibly, Danforth knows just how pandemic
"bad judgment" is within the federal bureaucracy and
refuses to expose that can of worms to the American public.
So, judgment, policy and politics are all
outside his radar screen, says Danforth. Still, that
leaves means and opportunity available to investigate.
That, and a lot of dead bodies as evidence that something
was woefully wrong with the way federal personnel conducted
themselves.
That is, within 52 days, this group of people
went from living a peaceful existence, off by themselves,
to getting shot, gassed and burned to death. And, the cold
hard fact that needs great discussion is that they did not
go anywhere or bother anyone to have that happen to them.
The trouble came to them. The problem came to their home.
And, those in charge of starting the trouble killed a lot of
people.
Really, there is not much else that needs to be
known.
Sure, it would be nice if we could learn
exactly why all those men, women and children were attacked
and killed. But, Danforth refuses to address that aspect of
the problem. The government will lie about it, anyway.
Congress will address the problem. But,
between the police-loving authoritarians on the right, the
obstructionists on the left, and those in the middle who
are afraid the media will not like hearing the truth, we do
not expect anything to come of that. The Waco hearings
will be about as fruitful as the hearings were about the
CIA importing cocaine for sale on our streets: No arrests.
No convictions. And, very little meaningful information
leaked to the American public.
As we mentioned last week, Danforth reports
to Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder is a cover-
up expert and will do anything possible to stop information
from becoming public.
For instance, ten days after assistant U.S.
Attorney Bill Johnston, in Waco, wrote a letter to Attorney
General Janet Reno raising questions about a possible
Justice Department cover-up in the Waco standoff, Johnston
and his boss, U.S. Attorney James W. Blagg, were abruptly
removed from the case. Holder said that Johnson and Blagg
had a conflict of interest because they were involved in the
original prosecutions. They are now recused from any
further dealings in criminal or civil proceedings related to
the attack. Muzzled, too.
And already, Justice and the FBI are using the
Danforth investigation as a type of cover up. When a
reporter asked an FBI agent a question about Waco, the
reply was curt: "That's all part of the Danforth
investigation," the FBI spokesman said. "We wouldn't want
to comment."
So, where was Danforth on the first few days
of his new Job? And, where is Danforth's primary office
to be? St. Louis.
Danforth said he will report the "unvarnished"
truth to the American people -- after the end of his
investigation. What he did not say is that Eric Holder and
Janet Reno get to redact as much of the report as they wish
before we see it.
FOLLOWING THE SCANDALS
Some people are actually starting to ask what
Clinton's next "Wag the Dog" will be. That is, they are
wondering what Clinton will do to capture the news away
from all the damaging Waco reports.
We find that to be an honest question, but not
necessarily the correct question to be asking right now.
Sure, a few odds and ends are going to leak
out of the hearings, and maybe even from the "outside"
Danforth investigation. However, by design, this will take
time. Which means that, by the time whatever results are
presented to the American people, the Clintons and all of
their underlings could be long gone from Washington.
And, what results can we expect from any fresh
revelations? Probably the most we can expect is that the
Davidians now in prison will be released. However, it
would be amazing, and very uncharacteristic of government,
if any in the ATF, FBI or Justice Department were arrested.
The most that will happen is that Congress
will give the ATF and FBI a written scolding. Sure they
committed murder. But, evidently government agents get
to do that with impunity nowadays. So, in the end, Congress
will increase the ATF and FBI budgets and it will be
business as usual.
In other words, nothing will happen.
There will be no "Wag the Dog" to cover the
Waco news because the Waco news IS the Wag the Dog.
So, what's the news being displaced by the Waco
news, then?
Few Clinton scandals are being investigated by
Congress or federal investigators. Not seriously, anyway.
However, at least two important scandals are being
investigated by Judicial Watch www.judicialwatch.org.
These two scandals concern foreign money
laundering, domestic money laundering, illegal campaign
contributions, bribery, blackmail, abuse of office, etc.,
etc. Most of that is often summed up as "Filegate" and
"Chinagate."
"We question why Republicans are hot to trot
on Janet Reno's and her FBI's corruption on Waco, but have
virtually ignored her equally serious corruption on
Chinagate, about which they already have ample evidence,"
stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman, in a
September 15 press release.
"Republicans would rather rake Janet Reno over
the coals for Waco, than for Chinagate. Both are equally
serious, and Reno should be raked over the coals, but the
difference with Waco is that no Republican donors were
involved," he added.
That point resonates loud and clear on Capitol Hill.
There are a lot of Democrats (and a few
Republicans) in Congress involved in the China connection.
So it was decided, unofficially, that the communist Chinese
connection just go away. Because, if they expose too much
about the illegal communist Chinese campaign funds
received, sure as hell someone will become angry and start
disclosing all the other illegal campaign funds received
from foreign concerns by the Lords and Ladies on both sides
of the aisle over the past twenty years.
That could lead to some very major problems
for the Lords and Ladies of Capitol Hill and their friends
in the lobbying industry. Prison terms, too. Long prison
terms. And, it's a bipartisan scandal.
On the other hand, there is no reason we
citizens should forget about all this illegal activity, and
many of us will not. Because, if this were a mystery
novel, it is actually interesting enough to be a best seller.
Anyone wanting to play "connect the dots" will easily
discover a great deal of wrongdoing by many well known
political people.
And, as luck would have it, some people
are doing exactly that, and posting their results on the
Internet. Judicial Watch has many very interesting
depositions of famous people posted on their web site.
More can be found on the web site for the House Committee
on Government Reform http://www.house.gov/reform And a
great deal of Chinagate and campaign finance irregularities
information is still available on the Senate Finance
Committee's web page at:
http://www.senate.gov/%7Egov_affairs/sireport.htm
There is also a great overview of Chinagate
and associated Clinton scandals posted by someone from the
Free Republic web site at: http://cyber77.com/china/ This
is a very well organized and easy to read article worthy of
any major national publication. Unfortunately, we have no
idea who the author is at this time.
The Waco story is important and should be
completely investigated. But, so too is the bribery of
America's elected officials by a communist government.
Yet, as Larry Klayman reported, Chinagate has
all but been swept aside and forgotten in Washington.
CHOOSING A PRESIDENT -- BRADLEY
A poll last week shows Vice President Al
Gore in a statistical dead heat with fellow Democrat
presidential candidate Bill Bradley -- that is, 42 percent
of New York Democrats favor Gore and 40 percent favor
Bradley.
What's that mean? Not much. It's still six
months until the primary election.
On the other hand, there is a growing undercurrent
of support for Bradley by Democratic insiders. There is
also another little problem between Al Gore and the leaders
of the multinational industrialists and bankers: They do
not trust him. Simply put, Al Gore is not part of their
program and Bill Bradley was schooled in their modern
population control methods.
Now they're saying that Bradley could also
beat Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush in
New York by 10 points, which equates to more success
raising campaign funds. Nobody wants to back a looser,
after all.
So, who is this Bill Bradley guy, anyway; and
why should we be paying attention? Let's look:
Bradley grew up in the small town of Crystal
City, which is located thirty-six miles south of St. Louis,
Missouri. The Bradley family were middle class, moderate
Republicans.
Bill Bradley found his basketball early on in
life and quickly became the local hoops star. That got him
a scholarship to Duke, but he changed his mind at the last
minute -- four days before class started -- and decided to
attend Princeton instead. As Bradley had learned, he would
have a better chance of being accepted as a Rhodes Scholar
from Princeton, and he was interested in politics.
Bradley then attended Oxford University on a
Rhodes Scholarship. While at Oxford, Bradley took time to
travel, which took him to Russia, Germany and the Middle
East. He eventually received a master's degree in politics,
philosophy, and economics. Which means, he was then
properly indoctrinated as a politician.
Still, there was that money thing: He needed
some. But, he had basketball skills and the New York
Knicks picked him up.
Ten years later, he was ready for politics and
so ran for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Already being
properly indoctrinated for that, he received immediate
support from those with money and influence and won the
seat.
Remember his training now. Also consider
all of his years of experience working out extensive
problems in the private sector. Because, now come the
rewards.
In the Senate, Bradley was placed on the
Finance Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources
Committee. Later, he was also on the Special Committee on
Aging and the Select Committee on Intelligence.
These would be very good committee assignments,
even for a Senator with many years of finance and industry
experience in the private sector -- or years of State
political experience. But, Bradley only had basketball
experience. Well, that, and a degree from the Rhodes
Scholar program at a university outside of the United
States. That is, Bradley had the proper connections.
Eighteen years later, in August 1995, Bill
Bradley said that he was satisfied with what he had
accomplished in the Senate and "needed new challenges."
Therefore, he retired from the Senate at the end of his
third term.
Now, with all these credentials and work
experience, Bill Bradley runs for President of the United
States.
Bill Bradley is trained to be a "Third Way"
Socialist. So, it was really no surprise that he proposes
programs like a comprehensive health care initiative
(Hillary light), a plan to "assist working families"
without lowering their taxes, and yet a new welfare program
to "combat child poverty." And, of course, he also calls
for very strict gun control laws and even more ominous civil
rights laws.
Then, on September 15, Bradley also called
for a welfare program for politicians: "I have proposed a
campaign finance reform measure that, in addition to
banning soft money, would require public financing,
spending limits, and free television time."
On September 17, Bradley met with a few of
his friends from the Congressional Black Caucus and the
Congressional Progressive Caucus -- most of whom are also
members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),
which is the domestic arm of Socialist International.
(Links provided below.)
Proposals made by the Progressive Caucus, and
Bill Bradley, can be traced directly back to those running
the Rhodes Scholar program at Oxford University and the
Fabian Society in England; which are the actual leadership
of the current "Third Way" progressive-socialist movement
now taking hold in many countries throughout the world.
For more information on the Third Way movement,
and their intent for the people of the United States, check
the Heads Up archive page. Because, from the point of view
of the average working folks, this program will come very
close to imposing on the American people the plight
experienced by those living in a communist dictatorship.
http://www.dsausa.org/si/si.html
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
http://www.dsausa.org/pc/pc.caucus.html#stpur
http://www.dsausa.org/pc/pc.members.html
http://www.fabian-society.org.uk
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