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Another Unsolved Mystery
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by
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Matt Giwer (c) 1994
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It is commonly repeated that David Koresh and his followers
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were hell bent upon some form of suicide. We heard and read
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constant comparisons to the mass suicide lead by Jim Jones. And
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as the clincher we are told they burned themselves alive.
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I have a problem with this. Why would people who were
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desperately seeking a cease fire be considered suicidal? And on
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top of that, why were we mislead?
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For fifty one days the government was releasing statements
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suggesting David Koresh and the Branch Davidians were suicidal,
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that they were looking for some massive confrontation with the
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government, that they would kill themselves rather than
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surrender.
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Now let us imagine what our perception would have been if we
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had known what the government knew. The government knew from the
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first day these people purported seeking a confrontation and
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death were in fact the people who sought a cease fire. We did
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not learn this until after the FBI Bar-B-Que and then not until
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we heard the full tape and not the FBI doctored tape.
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The government, having this tape and knowing full well they
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were not suicidal, proceeded to mislead us for seven weeks. Why?
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Was it truly necessary? Why would it be necessary to mislead us?
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I hate to get paranoid here but it appears we have a
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remarkably prescient government in expecting suicide or there was
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in fact no suicide. How is it that people demonstrably not
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suicidal on 28 February can become suicidal in fifty one days AND
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the government knowing it all along? Something just does not
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ring true here.
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Were I the paranoid type I would call the government stories
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a matter of scene setting. It is the Chinese story telling style
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starting off with, "I am going to tell you of a mass suicide,"
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and then going on to tell the story.
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It is difficult to imagine how the government could have set
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up such an event. Certainly they were shooting enough burning
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gas grenades into the second floor and in fact the second floor
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is where the first network videos show the first flames. This
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does not equate to starting fires at all the exits in order to
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prevent escape.
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On the other hand we do not have evidence of fires at all
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the exits yet very few escaped. This does fit with mass suicide
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but it requires a grave deliberation of purpose for a person to
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remain calm while being consumed by fire.
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We have to accept that obviously non-suicidal people turned
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suicidal in 51 days and that the government's psychic powers were
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sufficient to predict it. I can conceive of no reasonable
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explanation for either this drastic change or for the
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government's ability to predict it.
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Shall we say, we are left with a mystery.
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