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To: AurumRabosa who wrote (456)	9/3/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 1449

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FREEDOM Watch A look at what's new on "Project FREEDOM." ( house.gov ) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Issued: Friday, September 3, 1999 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The smoking gun Waco revelations show true face of federal police By US Rep. Ron Paul For years the Clinton Administration, with their willing allies in Congress and the mainstream press, have parroted the line that federal law enforcement officials did nothing wrong in the Branch Davidian stand-off at Waco. Anyone who questioned the government's official position was relegated to being either a far-right extremist, a militia kook, or a follower of the undeniably peculiar David Koresh. It was just weeks after coming to Congress in 1997, while on a national television program, that I was asked about the then-four-year-old case. I responded with the position that the evidence was overwhelmingly strong that everything was not as bureaucrats in the Clinton Administration claimed. I cited recent polling data that indicated that most Americans simply did not trust the government, and that a goodly number feared the increasingly commonplace occurrence of federal agents taking violent action against American citizens. Almost immediately the defenders of big government, the administration and the war on civil liberties launched into wild hysterics. I had committed the unpardonable sin of believing the facts rather than the government spin,which attempted to justify the murder of innocent children and untried,uncharged adults. The Attorney General and her minions in Congress maintained that the conflagration had been a rash act of mass suicide, ignoring that just hours before the raid those same people had requested their phone lines be reconnected. They also ignored the infrared evidence that government agents,as the fire was raging on one side of the house, were entering the home through the back, and that tanks were injecting gases banned under international treaties. Now, though, even the most blind followers of the administration and its policies are left stunned with revelations that high-ranking FBI officials and others lied to Congress, hid evidence, broke the law and knowingly subverted justice.... ...<SNIP>... Read the rest of this COLUMN at: house.gov ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FREEDOM Watch is a service of Rep. Ron Paul's office. By signing up,recipients are requesting to be notified when new items are posted to US Rep. Ron Paul's congressional web site, Project FREEDOM, house.gov. FREEDOM Watch does not send the full text of site postings. To be removed from this list, send a reply e-mail with the word "remove" in the Subject line. Please DO NOT send e-mail correspondence to this address, as the message WILL NOT be read or processed. Go to house.gov for information on how to send questions, comments and suggestions using the Internet.