Here is a time capsule, from the Clinton Militia Era. Most people forgot this happened before, so I think it is time to break the seal on the vault so we can reflect upon where we are today as oppose to where we were then.
Nothing has been edited or updated to change the piece, though it does get into the realm protected by black helicopters and men in black. What can I say, Alex Jones was our drinking buddy back then, well before he was famous.
So I will let it stand on its own, a historical piece of a somewhat timely matter.
Cycles, gotta love'em.
Mount Carmel Now
Who and What Remains in the Waco Ruins?
by Stabler Hsu
Recently, when I was in Waco and I had the chance to finally drive out Route 13 to see the site of the Mt. Carmel Ranch massacre in person, I didn’t hesitate to stop at the local gas station and ask for directions. I stepped up to the side of the cashier’s stand and asked for directions to what is now commonly referred to as the old Branch Davidian ‘compound’.
"Hey buddy," someone from the line shouted out.
I looked over, not knowing what to expect from these people. Being a city boy in these parts, I was hoping that I hadn’t walked into a bad scene from the movie "Footloose". A couple different people in line started rattling off directions out loud, as I tried desperately to understand what they were saying.
It was then that the man called out again, "You can follow me there, I’m in that blue chevy truck outside." I responded flatly, "All right." I was shocked at first by his kindness, and then thanked him and was on my way. As I made my way over to the door of this redneck Kwik-E-Mart of sorts, I bid farewell to the other tobacco-chewin’ locals staring at me from the line which at this point was about eight people long.
Following the blue Chevy out on the desolate winding road, all I could think of was the unbelievable number of people who had died out here in the middle of nowhere. I remembered seeing videos that were taken on this very strip of road that featured military personnel in full camoflauge gear running around like they were on maneuvers or something. It just didn’t seem right. This beautiful land was the site of all that? I wondered about the predatory nature of man and what it is that makes man kill, as the wide open Texas sky shined a pleasant shade of blue over an empty expanse called Elk.
At the time, I wasn’t even thinking about the history of this land which had begun long before the arrival of Vernon Howell (aka: David Koresh) here to Mt. Carmel, a history which is still unfolding today, long after the demise of Koresh and so many Branch Davidians.
I was amazed at what I found upon my arrival to what is now known as the Mount Carmel Memorial Park. Some standard style econo cars were parked at the entrance, where a small visitors shelter has been erected and stands covered with various photos, news clippings, and propaganda. Two groups of teenage kids were there when we arrived and there was a dead silence in the great open space which drowned the sound of their little voices. Hearing the young kids talking to one another in the distant background was chilling.
This may sound kind of new age, but there is a heavy "child" vibe attached to these grounds where so many youngsters have perished. The trees that have been planted in memory of the deceased are now but tiny saplings. This too brings one’s attention to the great loss of youth. It’s hard to imagine what it was really like here before the destruction. The eerie emptiness and rubble is all that is left.
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The rubble is all that remains of
the Mount Carmel Center.</div>
Upon reading through all of the literature stapled to the walls behind thick plastic laminate, I was beginning to see a side of the Waco story that I hadn’t before been really familiar with. As to be expected when a bunch of land is at stake, there’s plenty of controversy over the ownership of it. Why is it at stake?
Somehow, even though the Branch Davidian Church had been here for years before the arrival of Vernon Howell, he apparently had claimed ownership based on appointment by what they call an executive council. This is being disputed today because it contradicts the written laws of the church, where an executive council is like a presidential cabinet (appointed by Howell). In addition to the land disputes, there seems to be a lot of controversy over a man named Clive Doyle who was released from prison back in 1994.
He was one of Vernon Howell’s followers, and the only person who was present at the Feb. 28, 1993 shootout with the ATF that has been acquitted. Coincidently, he also has been accused of fronting for the government run "Branch Davidian" investigation. This is one of many claims that a message entitled "The Lucifer Movement" contains. One highlighted phrase read, "Rest assured, only the unimpeachable provisions of the deed allows you to visit here and read this."
There was another extensive message which a man named Doug was yanking down from the walls. I asked him why he was tearing down the message, which consisted of several sheets of paper covered with text that had been laminated and appeared to be something someone had invested a lot of time in making. He replied with a long story about a bunch of people who I really didn’t know anything about, people like George Roden, Robert Arnold, Amo Bishop Roden Drake, and Lois Roden, etc. There was stuff pasted all over the walls about people who I had never heard of and I watched the Waco Hearings. Funny huh? When you actually come face to face with something as bizarre as this, of course you have no idea what’s really going on.
I simply kept walking and made my way over to where all of the trees stood calmly in the still Texas air. In front of the trees there stands a stone memorial containing the names of all who died here, and another memorial for the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. This little plot of land doesn’t only have it’s own history, it’s got a little of Oklahoma’s in it as well. It makes you wonder who’s gonna be next.
The only things now left standing are merely burnt out corpses of what used to be buses and trailers, which lay scattered about among what remains of the Mt. Carmel Center. Someone has gone around to various points of interest and marked them with white posts with small podiums like the ones you’d find at a miniature golf course.
Each is numbered and if you’re lucky you’ll come across someone with a copy of the Visitors Pass which explains what remains. That’s where Doug resurfaced again. He drove up in a van on the muddy path and dropped me one of those very passes.
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Vandalized bus once used to transport Koresh's band.</div>
The compound has basically been broken down into piles of rubble with giant pieces of rebar protruding from immense chunks of concrete. A lot of the rubble has been pushed into what was a swimming pool (#10 on Pass). There still remain quite a few scary reminders of what happened on this land back in 1993. A bus (#13) which had been buried and used as a connector to a network of underground tunnels still remains buried here, with portions of its roof exposed to the light of day.
From what I could tell, the tunnels are filled with water now, and looking down into the murky stillness of that water through one of the remaining above ground tunnel entrances (#5) was a frightening sight indeed. Of course, as with any religios group, you gotta have buses. The Davidians had a couple big ones that have been roasted by the flames of the A.T.F. and other vandals. Ironically, the vandalized bus (#4), which was Koresh’s band bus stands burnt to a crisp right beside an old bath tub he once used for target practice. The bus by the lake (#14) brings alive the child vibe with a charred baby seat nestled in the heart of its blackened corpse. There is plenty more to note, refer to Visitor’s Pass.
This memorial doesn’t pull any punches.
The history of the Branch Davidians at the Mount Carmel Ranch in Elk, a small nowhere land just outside of Waco, Texas and the events that led to what is now known as the "Waco Massacre" have been argued over and investigated everyday since the unfortunate slaughter began to unfold some five years ago.
As has been thoroughly documented in the mainstream press, on February 28, 1993, the Branch Davidian Church and its members found themselves under attack by BATF and FBI agents. During the 51 days that followed, church members led by Koresh remained inside the compound and attempted to hold their ground and wait for a resolution. The story was that Koresh needed more time to translate the Seven Seals and present them to his followers before surrendering himself to the authorities. Meanwhile, the rest of the Davidians would endure many days of mental anguish and tension during the 51 day stand-off.
Finally, on April 19, 1993, the entire church and its members were burned to the ground while giant military tanks rammed into the sides of the building, crushing the stairwells and completely destroying the structure. The fuel inside the compound which was being used by the Davidians to make Molotov cocktails in attempts to fight back was ignited and the entire building became engulfed in flames.
This was originally alleged by the BATF and FBI to be fuel that the Davidians were using to burn themselves. However, the truth about the fuel and its use was exposed at the hearings before being quickly brushed aside. There has been a lot of controversy over the tanks and what they were doing, ranging from accounts that the tanks were shooting flames to claims that there was a body of a deceased Branch Davidian found on the ground with tank tread marks over it.
It was extremely difficult for me to sit through the Senate Hearings which were broadcast everyday on CSpan some three years ago and watch our politicians delicately brush the Waco massacre under the rug. The hardest thing for me to swallow was the inarguable facts: In the end, 82 people, including 18 children under the age of 10, died as members of our so-called free press were held at a military roadblock miles away unable to document this as it was happening.
In retrospect, almost everyone agrees that this was not an appropriate resolution to the stand-off, even if the allegations against Koresh and the church were true. The lives of those children were far too valuable to have been extinguished in the way that they were. Remember, these children were born into the church and never had the chance as adults to make rational decisions like the ones these people whose salary we are paying should be making when it comes to introducing their death weapons to children in attempts to "save" them.
Five years later, after all of the hearings, the award-winning documentaries, and the controversial paperbacks, the questions still remain: What could possibly justify the actions of the BATF and FBI at the Mt. Carmel siege? Why were these people killed?
Here’s where we come to the disturbing part of the story. When I began writing this piece, the only thing I really wanted to do was focus on the actual place where the Waco "massacre" took place and what is left now. What I’ve stumbled into since then leaves me perplexed, intrigued, and unfortunately, frightened. Of course, there are no such things as conspiracies anymore.
You’d be a nut to believe any of the stuff out there, right? It’s not only on public access t.v. that you will find loads of information on the Illuminati; there are countless books and magazines which detail the workings of this sinister group. Yes, we are living in the information age and the line between what is and what is not misinfromation these days is often blurred to the point of invisibility.
I’ve travelled the US extensively over the past ten years and have spoken with people from all walks of life about a variety of topics, not just the Illuminati, and the stories on the street range from crazy stories about Masonic Orders to accounts of actual satanic rituals. This one very old black man who was once a custodian in a Masonic Lodge told me that he saw a half man half goat walking down an empty hallway one night inside the building when he was cleaning.
Now, keep in mind that I had always dismissed these stories as either fantasy or simply the drugs talking and I never once really believed any of it for a second.
I asked the man named Doug who now lives at the Mt. Carmel Ranch what he thought about why this all happened here, and what do you know... the Illuminati did it. Doug claims that the first thing Vernon Howell did when he came to Mt. Carmel was destroy their printing operation by burning it to the ground. It appears that the Branh Davidians had been printing anti-Illuminati propaganda.
According to Doug, Howell admitted to him that he was once involved with Satanism and showed him a cross he had tattooed to his chest which represented Satanism. Doug also told me a long detailed account of a run-in that Howell had with the authorities in Australia on charges of child molestation, which ended with Howell escaping out the back door of a building and into a military helicopter.
Doug claims that Howell (aka: Koresh) was sent by the system to destroy the Branch Davidians, and that there is a remote chance that Koresh escaped the fire through one of the underground tunnels which was immediately destoyed after the siege.
According to a book written by William Guy Carr entitled Pawns in the Game, documents outlining the objectives of the secret organization known as the Illuminati were exposed in 1784. This happened in Bavaria when a messenger carrying these documents was struck by lightning in transit.
A man named Adam Wieshaupt had organized Organized Lodges of the Grand Orient and a secret group of wealthy industrialists and intellectuals known as the Illuminati. The word illuminati is derived from Lucifer and means "holder of the light". The documents contain some startling revelations which have for the most part become reality today. The plan laid out by Wieshaupt outlines the steps to a New World Order, where the Illuminati will control the world. The objective of the Illuminatiin the late eighteenth century was as follows: Divide masses (referred to as Goyim which means human cattle) into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, social, racial, and economic issues.
The opposing camps will then be armed and an incident will be provided to cause them to fight and weaken themselves as national govenments are destroyed as well as religious institutions.
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Entrance to underground rooms now filled with water.</div>
Just as the term ‘conspiracy theory’ has now become the buzz word for illegitimate allegations, the concept of Satanism is nowadays usually scoffed at as pure fantasy. The frightening thing about this is that just as there really are such things as ‘conspiracies’, and no matter how much we joke about it, there really are Satanic organizations. Just do some research on the rituals of the Mormon church, or take a look at the Satanic symbols such as the pentagram which are displayed on their archticture.
The only catch is that you really have to be an evil bastard, or simply born into this organization to be down with what they are into, stuff like molesting little kids (a la Koresh) and sacrificing animals, etc. Of course, there is the global child kidnapping network that recruits the youth by force in unmarked vans. Ex-FBI agent Ted Gunderson claims that the FBI will not provide statistics for missing children in this country.
If I were to go into great detail about the information or misinformation that I have come across, it would take up far too much space. If you’re really interested in this conspiracy stuff, go see for yourself.
Look for the following: anything involving the Illuminati, the Waco Massacre (Vernon Howell), the Oaklahoma City Bombing (specifically info about the elusive John Doe No. 2), the McMartin School in San Bernadino, CA where alleged satanic activity took place involving the ritual molestation of children (specifically the writings of ex-FBI agent Ted Gunderson), anything involving the Mormon Chuch, Operation Monarch (formerly a program known as "MK Ultra", anything about a child kidnapping ring that was busted in 1984 in Washington, D.C. called "The Finders", the underground city beneath Las Vegas, the list goes on...