From Carol Valentine (skywriter@public-action.com):

An observer of the recent Usenet discussions on the Waco Holocaust has offered this whimsical commentary on the debate--CV.


Rhyme of The Waco Apologist

The Waco autopsies are giving them fits. Even though they cordoned off Mt. Carmel, burned the place to the ground, destroyed key evidence, and excavated the ruins, the autopsies remain to point a cruel finger of truth at the murderers.

The autopsies are a BIG problem. When discussing Waco, a government apologist is confined to a series of non-sequiturs, scenarios that link one leap of illogic to the next. It goes something like that little nursery rhyme: "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly . . ."

  1. All the mothers and children were alive on the final day, but they died through a series of accidents. They were not murdered by the government. They were not murdered by the government . . .

    Despite what the autopsies show, the agents were always perfect gentlemen at the front door, even while they were mowing people down with machine guns at the back. Even while they were driving tanks into a house full of women and children, they would never hurt mommies and kids and really only wanted them to come out. They died by ACCIDENT. The autopsies are a mistake. Pay no attention to the autopsies. Nobody knows about autopsies. Autopsies are not important. We don't know anything about the bodies in the closet . . .

    There was an old woman who swallowed a fly.
    I don't know why she swallowed a fly.

  2. We know what happened to the mommies and kids because the SURVIVORS told us. There were photographers standing around with big telescopic lenses for weeks to get pictures of people leaving Mt. Carmel, but somehow none of us watching TV that day saw them come out, and the newspapers and magazines didn't get pictures either. But we believe everything the survivors say. Even though they were tortured for 51 days and half of them are in prison for the rest of their lives, they would ALWAYS tell the TRUTH. They were interviewed by the nice Hostage Rescue Team who shot Vicki Weaver in the face. So whatever those poor survivors say must be the TRUTH. Even when it doesnAt make sense, even when they contradict themselves, even when the autopsies show something else, it must be the TRUTH.

    There was an old woman who swallowed a spider
    That wriggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
    I don't know why she swallowed the fly
    Perhaps she'll die.

  3. And anyway, we have videotapes of the Davidian hostages when they were alive. The nice FBI people gave the Davidians a camera and video tape so they could express themselves while they were being bombarded with lasers, Nancy Sinatra, flash bangs, and military exercises destroying their property. We donAt know who the people are in the videos, but each one says their own name, so that helps. They ALWAYS make videos of hostages. The Iranians did it, so the FBI had to do it. The tapes were released months after everybody was dead, but you have to believe the tapes are for real and they were NEVER altered or edited. And that just shows the autopsy evidence is nonsense.

    The was an old woman who swallowed a bird
    How absurd, to swallow a bird!
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
    That wriggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
    I don't know why she swallowed the fly
    Perhaps she'll die.

  4. The government agents gave the Davidians the tapes and camera because they wanted to be sure that the Davidians were not molesting the children. Video tape will always tell you whether a child is being molested. The government had already strafed the children's nursery from helicopters, and they had tortured the hostages with lasers and sonic weapons for weeks. Eventually, they would smash Mt. Carmel around their ears, saturate the building with CS chemicals, set off a bomb on the concrete room where they were hiding, and machine gun the grownups as they fled the fire. But still, the FBI was concerned about the welfare of the children, and so they got a video tape.

    There was an old woman who swallowed a cat
    Imagine that! To swallow a cat!
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
    How absurd, to swallow a bird!
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
    That wriggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
    I don't know why she swallowed the fly
    Perhaps she'll die.

  5. The government agents were concerned about possible child abuse because crazy man Koresh was in Mt. Carmel, raping and spanking the children and sleeping with other men's wives. The parents of the little girls stood by and allowed this continuous child abuse and adultery in their presence. This really did happen, yes it did, and every government apologist who "accuses" the government of murder MUST include a lengthy repetition of these charges.

    There was an old woman who swallowed a dog
    What a hog! To swallow a dog!
    She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
    Imagine that! To swallow a cat!
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
    How absurd, to swallow a bird!
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
    That wriggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
    I don't know why she swallowed the fly
    Perhaps she'll die.

  6. The Davidian parents allowed all this to go on because they were members of a weird cult that believed weird things. To prove it, the Davidians have a weird web page that all self-respecting government apologists support in case anyone forgets how weird the Davidians were. They were so religiously weird (but legal) and believed in child abuse (illegal), adultery (legal), gun collection (legal), and gun modification (illegal) that law enforcement moved in and raided them. They should not have raided like that, but Koresh was weird and illegal and crazy and molested little girls, and maybe the government really did have to do SOMETHING about it, but . . .

    There was an old woman who swallowed a cow
    I don't know how she swallowed a cow.
    She swallowed a cow to catch the dog
    What a hog! To swallow a dog!
    She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
    Imagine that! To swallow a cat!
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
    How absurd, to swallow a bird!
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
    That wriggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
    I don't know why she swallowed the fly
    Perhaps she'll die.

  7. To raid Mt. Carmel, the law enforcers trained for months at Ft. Hood. They had military advisors and observers, they used military helicopters and other equipment, they had more than seventy five agents, and they were all CIVILIANS, of course. And they didn't have a written raid plan. To serve the search warrant, they first strafed Mt. Carmel from the air. Then they pulled up in front of the building in canvas-topped cattle trailers in broad daylight without cover and got their asses shot off by a band of Bible students hiding in the plywood house. Eventually the government agents ran out of ammunition after killing only a half-dozen Davidians (and none of them children, of COURSE). The government had to beg for a cease-fire to recover their dead and wounded. You see, they lost the element of surprise . . .

    There was an old woman who swallowed a horse
    She died of course.


It is always the same, this little story from the apologists. It is almost the same as the story told by the Justice Department in their official report.

The Justice Department de-emphasized the autopsies, too. IsnAt that funny?

The lesson here is that if you ignore the autopsy evidence, you wind up swallowing a load of bull--excuse me, I mean horse.


Copyright, 1998
Carol A. Valentine
President, Public Action, Inc.

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See what they did to the mothers and children--

http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum


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