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My
conclusion is that the United States government has been at war, under attack
in that war, for at least thirty years with its attackers being domestic
terrorists, some well-organized and others practicing ‘leaderless resistance.’ That story must be told in full detail, and
this ‘book review’ comes close to doing that.
It is very relevant today since the attackers in that war clearly identify
with today’s Republican Party which, sometimes reluctantly, nevertheless
accepts them into its fold, not turning their votes away.
And it might have something to do, as well, with the judge’s
admonition to the jurors in the civil case that found our defeated former
president liable for damages for sexual abuse not to identify themselves "not now and not for a long time” out
of concerns for their safety. In a real democracy, they should not have
anything to be afraid of. But in the
United States today, they do. And the
article describes the basis of any such fear.
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| Capitol Riot -2021 |
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| Oklahoma City Courthoue Bombing -1995 |
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| Culmination of Siege of Branch Davidian Compound in Waco - 1993 |
What's Next?
On March 25th, at the first big rally of his current electoral campaign,
Donald Trump explained his role in history. In 2016, he told the crowd of
supporters, he’d been their “voice.” Now it was different. “I am your warrior,
I am your justice,” he announced. “I am your retribution.”
Those words, ominous
enough on their own, seemed more so in light of the locale. Trump hadn’t wanted
to speak in “one of those fifty-fifty areas,” he explained, but somewhere his
support was “close to a hundred per cent.” He chose Waco, Texas, best known for
a fifty-one-day standoff outside the city in 1993, between a religious sect
called the Branch Davidians and the Department of Justice. The date of Trump’s
speech put it during the siege’s thirtieth anniversary.
The siege, which culminated
in a fire in the Branch Davidian complex, killed four federal agents and
eighty-two Branch Davidians, including their leader, David Koresh. Given
Koresh’s messianic tendencies and end-times prophecies, many shrugged this off
as just deserts for the zealots from “Wacko, Texas,” as Jay Leno joked at the
time.
Yet for others the
siege was a sickening display of state power. Waco helped kick the militia
movement into high gear. Timothy McVeigh’s biographers Lou Michel and Dan
Herbeck said that it was the largest “turning point in his life,” provoking him
to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995—the second
anniversary of the Waco fire. A young Alex Jones became obsessed
with Waco; it led him to start his Web site Infowars.
Waco helped McVeigh,
the militias, and Jones see the state as a violent enemy of the people. That
view, once marginal, has elbowed its way to the mainstream—it is now Trump’s,
too. Where better to insist that the “weaponization of our justice system” is
the “central issue of our time,” as Trump did in his Waco speech, than near the
place where an F.B.I. raid resulted in dozens of deaths, including those of
more than twenty children?
The ashes of Waco are
still blowing around. This year has already seen the release of two television
series, Netflix’s “Waco: American Apocalypse” and Showtime’s “Waco: The Aftermath,”
and two substantial books, Jeff Guinn’s “Waco” (Simon & Schuster) and Kevin Cook’s excellent “Waco Rising” (Holt). In 2003, on the tenth anniversary, infantry divisions were in
Iraq, and Waco was fading from view. Yet now, on the thirtieth anniversary,
private militias roam widely, and Waco feels like yesterday.
For someone who claimed to be the Lamb of God—prophesied in the Book of
Revelation to open the scroll’s seven seals and initiate the apocalypse—David
Koresh had a wobbly start. He was originally named Vernon Wayne Howell, or, as
his schoolmates called him, Mister Retardo. Cook notes that Koresh failed first
grade twice, was shunted into special education, and dropped out of ninth grade
with a grade-point average he described as “you don’t want to know.”
At eighteen, Koresh
got his first girlfriend, a sixteen-year-old he referred to as “jailbait,”
pregnant. He was elated (“Me, Mister Retardo—going to have a baby!”), then
crushed when she had an abortion. Her father kicked him out of their house, and
his church, the Seventh-day Adventists, “disfellowshipped” him for seducing
another girl, a church elder’s fifteen-year-old daughter.
Koresh’s fortunes
changed at around twenty-one, when he found a home among the Branch Davidians
at their Waco commune, Mount Carmel. The Branch Davidians were a small offshoot
of the Seventh-day Adventists, dedicated to intense Bible study, who shared the
Adventist belief in Jesus Christ’s imminent return. Koresh secured his place among
them by his impressive scriptural fluency and by having an affair with their
leader, Lois Roden, then in her sixties. At twenty-four, he abandoned Roden and
married a fourteen-year-old church member, Rachel Jones—a union that was,
because her parents consented, legal in Texas.
Koresh turned out to
be exceptionally good at talking people into things. Talking the Branch
Davidians into accepting his leadership. Talking them into believing that he
was the Lamb. Talking his teen-age wife and her parents into letting him take
Rachel’s twelve-year-old sister, Michele, as an additional wife. Talking Mount
Carmel’s men into celibacy, and talking its women and girls into bearing as
many as seventeen of his children.
There was another
thing Koresh talked his followers into. In 1992, a box being delivered to a
Davidian-owned business broke open. Dozens of grenade casings spilled out.
Purchasing empty grenade shells, it should be said, isn’t a crime. But it
smelled enough like one to prompt a months-long investigation by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. A.T.F. agents concluded that Mount Carmel
possessed a formidable arsenal and applied for a search warrant.
Cook observes that the
assembled evidence fell far short of showing that Mount Carmel must urgently be
stormed. The Branch Davidians spoke of an impending apocalypse, yes, but they’d
been talking that way for decades. Mount Carmel had existed in various forms
since the nineteen-thirties; it posed no obvious threat to outsiders.
What’s more, the
Branch Davidians had an explanation for their arsenal, as the A.T.F. knew. To
make money, they sold weapons at gun shows, along with military rations, gas
masks, ammo vests, and hunting jackets, onto which they sewed dummy grenades.
Their wares included automatic weapons. These weren’t illegal, but the A.T.F.,
in its search-warrant petition, cited “circumstantial evidence” that the Branch
Davidians were “converting semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic without
having paid the proper fees.”
“It may be true that we
stepped over the borderline of certain regulations,” Koresh allowed. In truth,
Koresh’s foot was far over the line. We now have copious evidence of his having
sex with underage children, including congressional testimony from a girl
Koresh molested, with her mother’s acquiescence, when she was ten. Yet the
authorities struggled to show this at the time. Child-protective services had
visited Mount Carmel without finding cause for action.
Nevertheless, the
A.T.F. got its warrant and, fatefully, decided on a “dynamic entry.” Rather
than arresting Koresh outside Mount Carmel—as they could easily have done,
since Koresh came and went freely—or even announcing their approach, federal
agents staged a raid. To prepare, they trained with Green Berets at a nearby military
base. They arrived at Mount Carmel on February 28, 1993, seventy-six of them,
with combat gear, submachine guns, sniper rifles, and concussion grenades.
They would need it
all. Whoever shot first, Mount Carmel became a battleground; one agent recalled
that the gunfire was so clamorous that he couldn’t hear his own pistol. Four
A.T.F. agents and six Branch Davidians died in this shoot-out. Yet Koresh, shot
twice, still lived, and Mount Carmel, riddled with bullet holes, remained
unbreached.
As the raid stretched
into a siege, the F.B.I. took command and deployed an élite tactical unit, the
Hostage Rescue Team. But who were the hostages? The Branch Davidians lived at
Mount Carmel, and they seemed uninterested in leaving their home to place
themselves or their children in state custody. They’d long expected to die for
their faith. And, until their Saviour collected their souls, they had large
stores of military-style rations.
Outside a cordon
surrounding Mount Carmel, onlookers gathered and venders sold merch. One
T-shirt, treating “Waco” as an acronym, summed up matters well: “We Ain’t Comin
Out.”
It could have been the slogan for the decade. A surprising number of
memorable nineties headlines involved armed confrontations between civilians
and the authorities. In 1992, in reaction to the police beating of an unarmed
Black man, Rodney King—and to years of aggressive policing—Los Angeles broke
out into five days of violence that killed sixty-three people. Later that year,
a siege and a shoot-out at a white supremacist’s cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho,
left three dead. Then came Waco (1993), McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing (1995),
and the Unabomber’s arrest (1996). In 1999, two teen-agers in Columbine,
Colorado, seeking to top McVeigh’s body count, waged war on their own high
school. The next year, dozens of armed federal agents stormed a house in Miami
to seize a six-year-old, Elián González.
What caused this? Two
scholars of nineties violence, the historian Kathleen Belew and the sociologist
Stuart A. Wright, point to militarization, not just of law enforcement but
of civilians, too. After the Vietnam War, the weapons and tactics of war flowed
into domestic life. In her book “Bring the War Home,” Belew describes political violence in the U.S. as the “catastrophic
ricochet” of fighting abroad.
By the nineties, those
ricochets were constant. The end of the Cold War relieved the country of a
long-standing foe, but it didn’t bring peace. Rather, there was what the
historian Michael Sherry, in “The Punitive Turn in American Life,” calls a “hydraulic relationship” between war-fighting and
crime-fighting: the fewer enemies the United States found beyond its borders,
the more it found within them. The Cold War’s conclusion had brought
“unrivalled peace” to the world, President Bill Clinton crowed, yet to the United States it also brought amped-up wars on
crime and drugs. Sherry notes the débuts, in 1989 and 1990, respectively, of
“Cops” and “Law & Order,” wildly popular television shows about arresting
and incarcerating people.
Locking people up was
nothing new. But, by the nineties, the line that the United States had long
drawn between its police and its military was badly blurred. Police departments
relied increasingly on units, such as swat teams,
that used military weapons, vehicles, equipment, outfits, and tactics.
Such units are
“paramilitary” because normally, by law, the actual military can’t be used for
domestic policing. Nevertheless, the late Cold War introduced significant
loopholes into that law, especially where drugs were concerned. (It was by
claiming, implausibly, that Koresh might be operating a meth lab that the
A.T.F. secured military support and helicopters for its disastrous raid on
Mount Carmel.) And arms-makers, desperate for customers after the Cold War’s
end, found other ways to push military or “dual-use” hardware onto law
enforcement. Local police chiefs were offered tanks and grenade launchers.
Civilians could get much of what they wanted, too. The Firearm Owners’
Protection Act of 1986 rolled back gun regulations and permitted unlicensed
“hobbyists” to sell weapons at gun shows. Between 1987 and 1993, firearms sales
from manufacturers nearly doubled. By 1995, there were more than a hundred
shows around the country each weekend.
The Branch Davidians
worked the gun-show circuit hard. Gun owners’ fears that Clinton would ban
assault-weapon sales (which he did, sort of, in 1994) created a frantic,
lucrative market. The more law enforcement armed itself, the more nervous
civilians followed suit, and so it went, back and forth. Stuart Wright, in his
2007 book, “Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing,” calls this the “threat spiral.”
Gun advocates warned
of a tyrannical state using black helicopters to subdue the populace, thus
turning “black helicopters” into shorthand for unhinged paranoia. But it’s not
paranoia if they really are out to get you, and the helicopters, at least, were
real—some flew over Waco. Sherry writes that, by the eighties, the wall
separating the police from the military had already crumbled to the point where
helicopters were “swooping down on alleged California pot growers,” some
“blaring Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries.’ ”
David Koresh was not the first Koresh. Around the turn of the twentieth
century, another prophet took the name Koresh, claimed to be the Lamb, and led
a sexually scandalous commune, Jeff Guinn points out. Theologically, the two
Koreshes were similar, but their fates diverged sharply. When tensions between
the first Koreshans and the authorities came to a head, in 1906, the result was
a brawl that broke the prophet’s eyeglasses. In 1993, Cook tells us, the forces
that the F.B.I. amassed at Waco included sixteen tanks, among them two
sixty-eight-ton Abrams tanks—the Pentagon’s largest. The Branch Davidians could
communicate with the press only by hanging bedsheets with messages written on
them out of windows. One read “rodney
king we understand.”
Timothy McVeigh,
devouring the news from Florida, drove to Waco. Half a dozen federal agents
briefly stopped him outside Mount Carmel, and McVeigh later remembered thinking
that he could have killed them all with a grenade. Nevertheless, he limited
himself to selling threat-spirally bumper stickers (“fear the government that fears your gun”)
and left after a few days.
Koresh, meanwhile,
exuded confidence. “You’re the Goliath, and we’re David,” he told a negotiator.
Of course, whereas the Biblical David had a sling and five smooth stones, the
modern Davidians had a .50-calibre sniper rifle that could shoot chunks off car
engines. They also had automatic weapons and more than a million rounds of
ammunition. They unfurled another bedsheet: “flames await.”
How to proceed against
a heavily armed apocalyptic commune containing dozens of children? The F.B.I.
hoped to smoke the Branch Davidians out with tear gas. But, predictably,
Koresh’s followers had gas masks, and they’d sealed off their complex. To make
an opening, tanks rammed Mount Carmel. Then, live on television, it burst into
flames.
Who set the fire
remains a contentious matter. Mount Carmel was a jerry-built mess of plywood,
“a tinderbox on its best day,” Cook writes. And April 19th—when the Branch
Davidians had plugged the windows with mattresses and hay bales to keep gas
out, and tanks were punching down walls to get it in—was not its best day.
Although the F.B.I.’s actions easily could have sparked a fire, surveillance
recordings and survivor testimonies suggest that some Branch Davidians sought
to speed the end along by arson. Tellingly, many died not from burns but from
gunshots, killed by their own hands or by fellow commune members. Someone shot
Koresh in the forehead.
Federal agents had
arrived at Mount Carmel with a search warrant. They left, fifty-one days later,
with a pile of charred corpses. Feds and Branch Davidians had together turned
“cops and robbers” into Armageddon, with opposing armies arrayed on a field of
battle.
Timothy McVeigh had sought to join that battle. He’d been changing his
car’s oil for his return to Waco, aiming vaguely to “go down there and do
something,” when the fire erupted. The tragedy consumed his thoughts. He handed
out pamphlets and sold spliced-together videos at gun shows which he claimed
proved the government’s perfidy. “Tim, why are you always focussing on Waco?”
his father asked. For McVeigh, Waco was the “straw that broke the back of Lady
Liberty,” the “first blood of war.”
A white supremacist
with a grievance against the government was not a new phenomenon. When McVeigh
bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in Oklahoma City, at the age
of twenty-six, he wore a T-shirt featuring the words of John Wilkes Booth: “Sic
semper tyrannis.” The reference was apt. When Booth was twenty-six, he’d
also committed a spectacular act of anti-government violence in the name of
white power.
But if McVeigh was an
old type he was also the product of the new militarization. McVeigh grew up
near a military base, and he was gun-obsessed from childhood. He joined the
Army, where he remembered being made to scream “Blood makes the grass grow!
Kill! Kill! Kill!” twenty times a day during training until his “throat was
raw.” In the Gulf War, he killed two Iraqis and won a Bronze Star.
McVeigh quit the Army,
yet he never fully accepted civilian life. His Army friends remained his most
important contacts; he’d met Terry Nichols, his collaborator in the bombing, on
his first day of basic training. He made other contacts at gun shows. He
attended roughly eighty, where he distributed cards with the address of an
F.B.I. sharpshooter who’d killed a woman at Ruby Ridge (and who’d been at
Waco), hoping to spur an assassination. He also sold flares and flare
launchers, for use, he suggested, against the “A.T.F. bastards” in helicopters.
Booth, McVeigh’s
model, had brandished a knife and assassinated Abraham Lincoln with a
derringer, a one-shot lady’s pistol. McVeigh, in contrast, was a walking
armory. On the day of the bombing, he carried a Glock .45 with a Black Talon
“cop killer” bullet in the chamber, plus a fully loaded ammunition magazine.
The seven-thousand-pound bomb McVeigh built was a homemade device—barrels of
fertilizer soaked in racing fuel—but it wasn’t an amateur job. With tactical
acumen, McVeigh arranged the barrels as a “shaped charge” to point the blast
toward the building.
The Oklahoma City
bombing, which McVeigh called his “retaliatory strike” against an “increasingly
militaristic and violent” state, damaged three hundred and twenty-four
buildings and wounded more than five hundred people. It killed a hundred and
sixty-eight, more than the number of Americans killed in combat in the Gulf
War.
The journalist Jeffrey Toobin covered McVeigh’s trial for ABC News,
and for this publication, too. At the time,
Toobin saw McVeigh as a deranged criminal. But Toobin has since concluded that
he’d “failed to understand” McVeigh’s place “in the broader slipstream of
American history.” His probing new book, “Homegrown” (Simon & Schuster), takes another look.
In Toobin’s view, it
wasn’t just militarism that made McVeigh—it was Republicanism. McVeigh’s
politics congealed at a time when Representative Newt Gingrich and the
broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, champions of “an ascendant right-wing
authoritarianism,” were injecting a new “rhetorical violence” into politics,
Toobin writes. They compared the Clinton Administration to the Third Reich,
whispered of dark conspiracies, and proposed rebellion. For McVeigh, who “took
Limbaugh both seriously and literally,” the way to “push the Republican
revolution one step further” was to bomb a federal building.
But, if McVeigh
followed the Republicans, he also walked less travelled paths. Both Kathleen
Belew and Stuart Wright (who consulted for McVeigh’s defense) stress McVeigh’s
place in the white-power movement. Rather than an impressionable Republican who
listened to too much Limbaugh, they argue, McVeigh is better understood as a
soldier in an organized paramilitary campaign against the United States.
That campaign
proceeded in secret. Belew and Wright emphasize its strategy of “leaderless
resistance”: instead of building a hierarchical organization with a large
membership, white-power activists developed disconnected cells of militants. To
synchronize without communicating, those cells relied on shared playbooks,
including, notably, a 1978 novel by William Pierce, “The Turner Diaries,” which
describes an apocalyptic race war. The book’s hero detonates a fertilizer bomb
in a truck at a federal building, just as McVeigh did. McVeigh bought boxes of
“The Turner Diaries” to distribute at gun shows, and he took a photocopied page
from the book to the bombing.
Was McVeigh
coördinating with others? He had written to his sister of being in a “Special
Forces Group involved in criminal activity.” Unquestionably, he’d had contact
with the white supremacists of Elohim City, a compound in Oklahoma. This
matters because, in the eighties, terrorists connected to Elohim City had
pursued, as their “ultimate goal,” the “bombing of the federal building in
Oklahoma City,” according to the former white-power leader Kerry Noble. An
A.T.F. informant at Elohim City recalled talk of a “racial holy war” to be
launched on April 19, 1995, with bombings of federal buildings in Oklahoma City
or Texas. (Showtime’s “Waco: The Aftermath” makes much of Elohim City.)
McVeigh’s lawyer,
seeking to blur his client’s culpability, pointed to Elohim City. The
prosecution, led by Merrick Garland in the Justice Department, homed in on
McVeigh and Nichols as the sole perpetrators. Garland’s focussed strategy
worked, in that McVeigh was convicted and executed. (Nichols is serving a
hundred and sixty-one consecutive life sentences.) Yet even Toobin, who dismisses
the Elohim City connection as a conspiracy theory, faults Garland for having
presented an overly narrow, “dangerously misleading” version of events.
Before his execution,
McVeigh was incarcerated in a Colorado supermax prison, where he befriended
both Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, and Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the Al
Qaeda-tied terrorist who’d attacked the World Trade Center in 1993. At the
time, the media portrayed McVeigh as a crazed loner, like Kaczynski. In
hindsight, though, he seems more like Yousef: a soldier in an invisible army.
Yousef, for his part, said that he’d never met anyone with “so similar a
personality to my own.”
There is a long history of law enforcement besieging and attacking U.S.
communities. In 1973, federal agents had a months-long standoff, with gunfire,
against Native activists at Wounded Knee (itself the famous site of an 1890
Army massacre). In 1985, police bombed the Black commune move in Philadelphia, sparking
a fire that burned sixty-one homes and caused eleven deaths.
The siege in Waco,
however, killed white people. Russell Means, an Oglala Lakota activist who’d
been at the Wounded Knee standoff, wrote a blues, “Waco: The White Man’s
Wounded Knee,” welcoming whites to the Indigenous experience: “Soldiers burning
babies is nothing new. / It happened to us, now it’s happening to
you.”
Now it’s happening to
you. The Branch Davidians were actually
multiracial, but they were white enough for their plight to set alarms ringing.
The anthropologist Susan Lepselter, who studied U.F.O. believers in the
nineties, found that, for many, Waco had “crystallized” their distrustful world
view. After the event, the leader of the Heaven’s Gate movement advised his
U.F.O.-believing followers to arm themselves in preparation for a lethal raid
by “the authorities.” When it didn’t come, the group, in 1997, sought death
another way: via mass suicide.
Two years later, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, inspired by McVeigh,
attacked their high school in Columbine, Colorado. They set April 19, 1999—the sixth
anniversary of the Waco fire and the fourth of McVeigh’s bombing—as “Judgment
Day.” (Trouble securing ammunition pushed it back to April 20th.) They nearly
succeeded in their aim to kill more people than McVeigh did. Though they’re
remembered as school shooters, Harris and Klebold also planted enormous bombs,
which, had they detonated, “would have killed five hundred people,” Dave Cullen
writes in his 2009 book, “Columbine.”
Waco was especially
meaningful to the paramilitary movement. Between 1993 and 1995, more than eight
hundred militias and Patriot groups formed. These groups, important vehicles
for white power, differed from the mixed-race and Israel-sympathizing Branch Davidians.
Still, Waco (along with Ruby Ridge) was their rallying cry, incorporated into
calls for a race war and for attacks on the state. An undercover agent working
among them recalled, “There was hardly one militia member I met who didn’t mention
Waco as his awakening.”
Alex Jones was nineteen during the Waco siege. As Cook explains, he was
haunted by the event, and raised funds to rebuild the Branch Davidians’ church.
In his twenties, Jones hosted a popular talk-radio show in Austin, yet his Waco
monomania got it cancelled. So, in 1999, he launched Infowars, an outlet all
his own.
At first, Jones’s
ravings seemed harmless. “He was this hyper guy that we’d all kind of make fun
of,” the Austin director Richard Linklater, who cast Jones in his films “Waking
Life” and “A Scanner Darkly,” recalled. But Jones collected a fervid fan base,
including, notably, President Trump. “It is surreal,” Jones reflected, “to talk
about issues here on air and word-for-word hear Trump say it two days later.”
Jones helped arrange
the rally at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021. Directly afterward, insurgents attacked the U.S. Capitol—an act that also takes place in “The Turner Diaries.” January 6th was
Waco in reverse; this time, civilians stormed the federal government’s
stronghold.
Merrick Garland, now
the Attorney General, is overseeing the January 6th investigation—“one of the
largest, most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in our
history,” he has said. Still, it’s hard to imagine that this will extinguish
the flames. With social media, violent rhetoric spreads more easily than ever.
Toobin observes that McVeigh—travelling the gun-show circuit, haltingly making
friends—“had an analog radicalization.” His counterparts today undergo “digital
radicalization,” which, Toobin warns, is “much faster and more efficient.”
And so Waco still
matters; it’s history in the present tense. Charles Pace, the pastor of the
church that Alex Jones helped rebuild there, considers Trump the “battering ram
that God is using to bring down the Deep State of Babylon.” Trump sees himself
similarly. At Waco, he warned that the “biggest threat” to the country was
“high-level politicians” in both parties. The 2024 election will be the “final
battle,” Trump promised. “That’s gonna be the big one.” ♦
Published in the print edition of the May 8, 2023, issue, with the
headline “Home Fires.”
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If I might comment on the above article, I believe it is wise to be very careful of evil people who hide not only behind the American flag, as discussed in the last posting on Jackspotpourri, but also depend on the Bible to justify their actions.
JL
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