If you work at the ATF and have a shred of decency, repent, quit and get a real job

Editor's note: If footage is carefully viewed from different sources of the events on the 1993 federally subcontracted ATF corporation employees who went berserk on the Americans inside the Branch Davidian "compound", several of those ATF people killed were alleged to be shot at from inside the room by other ATF agents on the second floor of the building when they climbed a ladder and attempted entering the building through a window. It was an incompetent disastrous clusterfuck with 86 people killed. The ATF has over 5,200 federal employees with a budget of around $1.6 billion yearly. There is no way anyone would get a straight answer from them on what actually happened. 

"Stop hiring these god damn bureaucrats." ~ Ezra Pound in Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization  
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By @travis4nh | February 29, 2024

During the planning phase a local sheriff asked "why do you need to RAID the compound? I'm friendly with David Koresh, and he picks up his mail at the post office every week. You can just arrest him."

The ATF had their reasons, though...

 

Today, we remember and honor the life and service of Special Agents Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Robert Williams and Steven Willis, who were killed attempting to execute warrants at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993. https://t.co/SEsH2ZDgSN #LODD #EOW #ATF pic.twitter.com/N9iOejdcxQ

— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) February 28, 2023

Specifically, the ATF budget was coming up for renewal in Congress soon, and inside the ATF there was concern that they didn't look macho enough.

So they decided to put on a big show. It was named "Operation Showtime", and scheduled to coincide with the budget season. 

One of the biggest agency expenses in the run up to the raid was for camcorders and blank VHS tapes.

Their intention was to do a real "Cops" style SWAT action, and document their heroics.

(The vast majority of the footage they shot "went missing" before the later inquiry). 

The first step in the raid was heavily armored "dog teams" approached Koresh's church, armed with submachine guns with silencers.

Pet dogs, including a nursing mother bitch, were in a closed and locked kennel. 

The "dog teams" machine gunned all of the pet dogs, including the nursing mother and her puppies.

...then the raid proper started. 

I could go on all day long about the corruption, incompetence, venality, etc of the @ATFHQ , the FBI, how Janet Reno and Bill Clinton lied on camera to the American people about it, how the claims re Koresh kept changing as the government workshopped new propaganda. 

(at one point they floated the idea of a fictional meth lab that might be in the church). 

TLDR: The @ATFHQ is unconstitutional and ought to be disbanded, and everyone involved in that evil raid should have been brought up on criminal charges [ including murder ].

Statute of limitations, though. The only thing we can do for the victims now is remember. 

Specifically, we should remember that everyone at the @ATFHQ , even those who just joined yesterday, are complicit in the evil and crimes of that organization.

If you work there, and have a shred of decency, repent, quit, and get a real job.

...and if you don't...

We know exactly where you stand (with the puppy killers and child murderers).

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