Sipsey Street Irregulars: 28 February: The anniversary of "Waco Jim" Cavanaugh's "finest hour."

Saturday, February 28, 2015

28 February: The anniversary of "Waco Jim" Cavanaugh's "finest hour."

Having run out of ammunition, the ATF asked the Davidians if they could retreat. The Davidians held their fire and let them go.

Today is the day of the original raid in 1993.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...: You start it, expect it to be finished one way or another, expect no mercy.; February 28, 2015 at 8:07 AM
Anonymous said...: The bully who picks a fight, realizes he's about to get his ass kicked and screams "no fair!"; February 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM
j said...: May every one of these people burn in Hell for eternity.; February 28, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Allen said...: also the end of the Sweeney Seige in Hamilton,MA

http://articles.courant.com/1998-01-07/news/9801070159_1_sweeney-s-wife-john-sweeney-standoff; February 28, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...: They should've gone out and killed them all. Had they known how it would turn out...they might have.

Hell, WE should have surrounded them and done the same during the standoff. Hindsight is 20/20.; February 28, 2015 at 12:14 PM
Anonymous said...: The first comment posted in response to this short reminder was interesting. Is that you, Waco Jim?

The flip side of that comment from any liberty minded American to Waco Jim et al. is, Next time you fed clowns go overtly rogue, don't be surprised when you realize that you can't handle what you have let loose!

KPN3%; February 28, 2015 at 12:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Then the FBI/ATF returned with more ammo ... then killed women and children ...

Object lesson?

III; February 28, 2015 at 4:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Feds don't write any checks with your mouth you can't cover with your ass.; February 28, 2015 at 11:50 PM
prambo said...: Going to watch Waco: Rules of Engagement again right now on youtube. Then maybe A New Revelation.

Hope the NSA likes the vid, I'm sure it's getting a lot of "hits" today.

PS: "F" you, Lon, you murderous stooge, wherever you are. May you and your family endure the pain and suffering you inflicted on the Weavers and at Waco.; March 1, 2015 at 1:08 PM
G3Ken said...: In hindsight, if Koresh were alive to do it again, I would hope he would've hosed them all down. Sure, the retribution would've been swift and deadly, but it was deadly nonetheless. He and his died anyway. May as well have taken a bunch with them. Koresh may have been an odd duck, maybe not, but he got far worse than any American deserved. I am saddened that most don't see the tragedy in what happened to the Davidians and only see the loss of four ATF agents as tragic. All loss of life is tragic, but it didn't have to happen if the ATF exercised the slightest restraint.; March 1, 2015 at 6:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Michael McNulty, who produced Waco: Rules of Engagement died last week at 68. RIP.; March 2, 2015 at 4:07 AM
Informed42 said...: I tried to get involved with the situation in Waco very early on, and offered to be a go between with the Feds and the Davidians. I tried calling the radio station, WACO, and Gov. Ann Richards. All I got was crap that should contact the FBI.

I talked with a guy at a broadcasting company in Arlington, VA that was the producer of The Larry King Show. His name was Pat Piper. I told him I was willing to be a liason between the Feds and Davidians.
He asked what my interest in the situation was ? I told him to prevent anymore blood shed. He asked what my qualifications were. I told him I was a listed Neutral Arbitrator with the National Mediation Board in Washington, DC, and a trained, experienced and certified mediator. When I didn't hear back from him, I called him again the next day. He wanted to know what I wanted out of the situation ? I told him, nothing, except to remain anonymous. He asked if I'd be willing to go on the air with Larry King live for 15 minutes? I told him, No, because that would discredit any neutrality credibility I had. I never heard another word from him or other authorities I contacted. Then I got really pissed off when it was over and a Texas newspaper had an article about how the authorities didn't have anymore negotiators and theirs were all worn out. Just one more lie as far as I'm concerned. The entire Fed operation was a cluster fuck from go, and a lot of people were murdered under the color of law.

And that same kind of shit is on going today all over the country.; March 2, 2015 at 9:33 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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28 February: The anniversary of "Waco Jim" Cavanaugh's "finest hour."

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