When Power and Prophecy Collide
Waco, Koresh, and the Police State in America
The anniversary of a grim moment in recent American history occurred this last Thursday; about it, barely a whisper was to be heard.
Well, there were a few whispers, but all with the usual application of the ‘elitist’ doctoring our media outlets adore; when it comes to indoctrination we love to focus on alleged ‘cult leaders,’ though the masses should start seriously asking who is really doing the ‘brainwashing’ on this planet.
But let us continue…
What Happened During the Waco Massacre?
People
April 19, 2024, mark[ed] the 31st anniversary of one of the deadliest law enforcement altercations in American history, when members of the Branch Davidians, a religious group under the leadership of… David Koresh, clashed with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF]… outside Waco, Texas.
The siege and resulting standoff, which lasted 51 days and ended with a total of 86 dead (28 of whom being children) and an additional 27 wounded, was the most gruesome attack by federal forces on American civilians in our history.
An attack for which, in case you are curious, no one in the ATF or Federal Bureau of Intimidation (FBI) has been held accountable; please, try not to allow your ‘shocked face’ to cause you discomfort.
Despite the harrowing nature of the incident, it gets scant attention from our gaslighting news media. Apparently it is also not being taught in schools (again, go easy with the ‘shock’), as The Stone Age subscriber
pointed out in a response to my Note announcing this coming article.Therefore - as a courtesy to those who may not be aware, or any who may need a refresher - allow me nutshell it for you, with as much brevity as possible…
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The Excuse
The year was 1993, and - facing the threat of defunding by a new, Democrat administration - the AFT needed a showy statement to justify its existence. They were made aware of a communal church outside of Waco, Texas, the Branch Davidians, which was lead by a ‘charismatic’ leader preaching an end-days message and potentially abusing children.
They were further advised the adherents were training as a militia as well, stockpiling (again, potentially) illegal weapons for a final battle with the forces of Babylon. Meaning… the U.S. globalist government.
Learning about this, the AFT felt they had their opportunity for a ‘showy statement;’ their target was to be the leader of this church (now being referred to as a ‘compound’), a man who went by the name of David Koresh.
Keep in mind, Koresh was no hermit. They could have easily - and peacefully - arrested Koresh on one of his many, many jogs off the church property, or even one of his trips into town, with no bloodshed whatsoever. But remember… they needed ‘showy.’
As such, they set up an elaborate raid - scripted to achieve maximum visual impact - to save their agency from government shutdown. And yes, they DID have a cameraman there, filming the entire event.
Furthermore, while the official code-name was ‘Operation: Trojan Horse?’ They had another, unofficial name for it, being used loosely by the participating agents. That name? “Showtime.”
In other words… this was a propaganda op; no more, no less.
The Result
There is a word oft used in the military when things go horribly wrong (begins with ‘cluster’ and ends with a word which rhymes with ‘yuck’), but since I try to minimize unnecessary profanity here I will go with another word: Quagmire. Well, that is exactly what transpired with the ATF raid on the church, carried out the morning of February 28, 1993.
A quagmire.
It started with the critical element of ‘surprise’ being compromised, and the ATF’s decision to move forward anyhow. One bad decision after another followed that fateful choice, and since the Davidians chose to defend themselves (because really, who wouldn’t?), an actual blood bath ensued.
After a two-hour long gun battle a cease-fire was finally called; as the smoke cleared it was eventually determined that four ATF agents had been killed and 16 wounded, while the Davidians had six dead and 11 wounded, including Koresh himself.
In the hours which followed the FBI - fresh on-the-heels of its own ugly ‘quagmire,’ known as Ruby Ridge - took over the scene, and set the stage for the longest federal standoff in American history.
With even MORE bad decisions.
Most of those were based on the tactical units and negotiating teams working at cross-purposes, which only served to confuse the Davidians… which THEN served to solidify their resolve. Turns out, torturing people over a nearly two-month period does not inspire them to want to work with you.
Shock upon shock upon shock, I know.
After 51 days of negotiators making promises which the tactical units oft violated (and one BIG promise Koresh broke - more on that below), April 19 unfolded. On that day, 76 Davidians were killed - 28 of whom were children - as CS Gas Rounds (not at all incendiary, the FBI assures us) were shot into the church, (which the FBI asserts had nothing to do with) igniting an inferno that consumed the entire building and everyone who remained inside.
Again… 28 of whom being children.
The Aftermath
The finger-pointing which followed was nearly as epic as the event itself. Surviving Davidians and Authorities both blamed the other for the fire which broke out, with each claiming their adversaries fired first when the entire thing first got started. A few survivors were sentenced to unreasonably high prison sentences (sound familiar?), Congressional hearings were held, and in the end federal agents were given free passes, with no accountability in sight.
28 children.
Over the last 31 years, a lot of material has been produced telling the story from a variety of perspectives, including books, documentaries, and two fictionalized mini-series. While a vast majority of the ‘mainstream’ material provides cover for the FBI and ATF (Koresh was a cult leader, they had scary guns, adherents were brainwashed robots, etcetera), the two miniseries - ‘Waco,’ and its sequel, ‘Waco: The Aftermath” told a mostly-balanced tale about Koresh and his followers. In fact, some have asserted they were both far too kind to Koresh himself.
Indeed, thanks to those series (especially the first one), there have even been those who have attempted to elevate Koresh from his ‘martyr’ status (which, by a strict definition of the word, is entirely valid) to the mantle of ‘hero.’
That… I cannot abide.
Before we go there, however, a caveat: I have no intention of assessing Koresh’s status as a ‘prophet’ nor cast judgment upon his - or any individual’s - “soul;” the former can only be determined by time and those who followed him, while the latter is way above my paygrade.
We can, however, judge the man as a man, by his demeanors and actions, and what is available is not complimentary. While he could be both charismatic and even generous, he also deployed psychological tactics that were manipulative and occasionally abusive. He declared a ‘New Light’ revelation which annulled all the marriages in the church, that he could produce children with those women himself.
Not a ‘good guy.’
There are also credible reports of Koresh’s ‘marriages’ to underage girls to consider. While we know he married his legal wife Rachel when she was 14 (by Texas law at the time, completely legal with parental consent), he was also accused of marrying her younger sister, Michelle, when she was 12.; due to anti-polygamy laws, parental permission or no that was most certainly not legal… and it sure as hell wasn’t ‘moral.’
Based on these reports? At best Koresh was ephebophilic, and at worst a straight-up pedophile. Either way, vile to his core.
However…
None of this excuses the tyrannical actions of the federal agencies. Yes, Koresh deserved to be arrested and prosecuted for (at minimum) his actions toward the female children; remember, however, this arrest could have done peacefully.
And yes, an argument can be made that the adults in the church failed to protect those children through compliance, and certainly deserved investigation and condemnation. But there is nothing - absolutely nothing - which justifies the government’s actions which lead to the tragic ending which unfolded.
Again… 28 children.
This is especially true since, when the final assault took place, there was an agreement in place which would have resulted in Koresh leading his people OUT of the church peacefully. So why did the FBI violate that, and go ahead anyhow?
Now is a good time to grab your stylish-yet-functional tin-foil-hats, my friends - because I am about to go full-speculative on you.
Buckle up.
The Speculation
The aforementioned agreement was straight-forward. On April 14, Koresh promised that he would surrender to authorities once he had recorded - in written format - his interpretations of the Seven Seals, found in The Book of Revelation. His teachings on these Seals, which were the foundation of Davidian belief, would be turned over to two bible scholars who had defended Koresh in the media, and held for posterity. He said the task would take no longer than two days per seal.
Six days later the FBI attacked, and in the end Koresh and a majority of his followers were all dead. Only the interpretation of the First Seal survived, smuggled out by one of the nine escaping Davidians.
If you wish to read Koresh’s own words, click HERE
So again I ask, what compelled the most power government on Earth to attack this tiny church while a surrender agreement was in place, especially when the lives of 28 children were at stake. What made this action - this risk - so critical?
Maybe it was what they believed Koresh had discovered in those Seals.
This brings us to a point I made earlier - Koresh himself had already violated one promise before this. Early in the standoff, negotiators had made an arrangement with Koresh that, if they would play an audio tape of his teachings covering the Seven Seals on national television, he would lead all the people out. Koresh recorded the 58-minute tape and turned it over to authorities, who then had it played on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
He was convinced that a great awakening would occur because of the power in the message; instead, the media - our ever-unbiased media - heaped ridicule and disdain upon the message, the church… and on Koresh.
Hours later, fearing that the message (the only thing that mattered to Koresh) had been corrupted by malevolent forces, he broke the agreement and the standoff continued.
I have listened to the tape - which you can do HERE - and while it has echoes of many sermons you might hear in any Pentecostal church, also contains esoteric elements that are difficult to pin down. The delivery of the message was far from charismatic, however, in part because Koresh recorded it while suffering from a bullet wound; needless to say, he wasn’t at his best, and the presentation reflected that.
But… what if those-who-know understood that underneath the message was knowledge which was dangerous to the Powers-That-Be… or at least potentially dangerous. What if they recognized that Koresh - either through divine inspiration, human imagination, or pure-dumb-luck - had gotten too close to a truth so devastating that it could upset the entire repressive system?
Maybe - just maybe - they were able to determine all of this from his less-than-stellar recording, and did NOT want him putting it into written form. Words in an audio recording are easily portrayed as rambling nonsense, after all - well-written words on a page, however? Much harder to corrupt.
Furthermore, they had all the means necessary to personally destroy Koresh before April 19. Character assassination would have been easy to achieve - Koresh himself handed them the weapon and ammo to do so, with his nefarious actions toward young girls.
But written words tend to live long past the life - long past the sins - of the individual who writes them, especially when the words have the power to shift the paradigm of existence. I firmly believe that was the case here.
The reason I think this is simple: I have run through the various scenarios as to why (again, when the lives of 28 children were at stake) they could not wait eight more days before attacking Koresh and his followers, to see whether or not he would fulfill his promise. The only explanation that makes any sense is that they did not want those words to get out, to the degree that they were willing to risk - even end - those children’s lives to prevent it.
Throughout history there have been sources of knowledge and wisdom which have been stolen and kept from us (you don’t honestly think the torching of the library at Alexandria was merely coincidence or accidental, do you?), so that the Powers-That-Be are able to hold us in a perpetual state of servitude.
Perhaps somewhere, deep within the lost words of this otherwise-vile man, were insights which had the potential to set us free… which was why they HAD to destroy him, before said-words could be completed.
Eight more days… 28 children. No other explanation makes sense to me.
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Notes…
-- The source for the data was Wikipedia; I normally prefer to use Britannica for sourced information, but the article on the siege was so poorly written - and so full of errors - that I chose to go with the alternative for this article.
-- Unless otherwise credited, all images were created by the author, using Substack’s AI Image Generator.
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