Thursday, April 20, 2023

I don't want this important anniversary to go unnoticed

"Waco 30 Years Later: It Is Not an Atrocity if the Feds Do It".

I didn't know this:

Shortly before the Waco showdown, U.S. government officials signed an international Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty pledging never to use nerve agents, mustard gas, and other compounds (including tear gas) against enemy soldiers. But the treaty contained a loophole permitting governments to gas their own people. On April 19, 1993, the FBI pumped CS gas and methyl chloride, a potentially lethal, flammable combination, into the Davidians’ residence for six hours, disregarding explicit warnings that CS gas should not be used indoors. Benjamin Garrett, executive director the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute in Alexandria, Virginia, observed that the CS gas “would have panicked the children. Their eyes would have involuntarily shut. Their skin would have been burning. They would have been gasping for air and coughing wildly. Eventually, they would have been overcome with vomiting in a final hell.” A 1975 U.S. Army publication on the effects of CS gas noted, “Generally, persons reacting to CS are incapable of executing organized and concerted actions and excessive exposure to CS may make them incapable of vacating the area.”

It angers me still that that hulking incompetent, Janet Reno, survived with her bogus reputation intact.




4 comments:

  1. Stephen A SkubinnaApril 20, 2023 at 1:35 PM

    And for six or seven years Janet Reno lied to all of us, saying again and again that the Davidians obviously set the fire that destroyed the compound, and that the feds had never used any pyrotechnic devices.

    Finally the Texas Rangers said, in effect, "That's interesting because we have a whole bunch of expended CS grenades in the evidence locker from the siege and assault (actually they had a warehouse full of evidence). At which the Feds went, oh... er, ummm... and got very quiet.

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  2. Stephen A SkubinnaApril 20, 2023 at 6:16 PM

    Oh, and speaking of important anniversaries, today is the day all the stoners get together and commemorate Adolph Hitler's birthday. I have no idea why, but it's a big deal to the stoners.

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    1. I've always thought they'd burn waccy baccy to commemorate the burning of Waco.
      You learn something new every day.

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    2. The stoners don't remember Waco, partly because some weren't born, and the other part because, hey, they're stoners.

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