There’s fear and loathing in America today because it is April 19.
Sadly, April 19 has come to mean Waco and Oklahoma City.
I believe we’ll never get past this fear and loathing as a people until we actually have some truthful answers about these two recent tragedies.
The U.S. government continues to lie about what happened to the Branch Davidian church compound at Mount Carmel in 1993. And it continues to lie to the American people about what happened to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
For truth seekers, I urge you to see the latest of three excellent video documentaries on the Waco massacre of 80 men, women and children. “The F.L.I.R. Project,” produced by Mike McNulty, conclusively shows that FBI agents were firing automatic weapons at Branch Davidians as they attempted to flee the burning buildings.
The U.S. government has consistently denied this truth — arrogantly, and in the face of overwhelming forensic evidence, entirely blaming the Davidians themselves for their own deaths.
Likewise, next month Timothy McVeigh is scheduled to be put to death for the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. There’s just one problem with that. The bomb that McVeigh supposedly delivered in a truck outside the building could never have caused the destruction attributed to it. In other words, while McVeigh was surely involved in a conspiracy to blow up the building, he is being railroaded and executed as the patsy for a bombing way beyond his ability to carry out.
It’s all a shame, really. Because until recently, April 19 was recalled as a historic date in America — a date on which a shot of freedom was heard around the world.
It was known as “Patriots Day.” On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his
famous ride and call to arms. At four in the morning the next day, a line of
British soldiers stared across the village green of Lexington,
Massachusetts, at a crowd of 77 colonial militiamen.
A shot rang out. To this day, no one is certain if the British fired first or the colonials. But there is no doubt that the redcoats launched a devastating volley into the militiamen, who returned fire.
It looked like a sure defeat for the outnumbered, outgunned, out-trained and out-classed colonials. But, because of the early warning the Massachusetts countryside had received from the Minutemen riders, the British soon found themselves in full retreat — back to Boston Harbor.
All along the route they were pursued by angry colonists — farmers mostly — firing thousands of shots their way. By day’s end, the British had suffered 73 deaths and 200 other casualties.
This was the beginning of the War of Independence. It took weeks for word to travel through the colonies. New Yorkers didn’t hear about it until April 23. Word didn’t reach Philadelphia until April 28. It took nearly a month for King George to get word of the hostilities.
But, nevertheless, it was on April 19 that the first blood in the American war for freedom and independence was spilled.
What was the meaning of that fight? Did the colonists go to war with the most powerful nation on earth so that future generations of Americans would serve new masters in Washington? Did they fight so that a bigger, more powerful central government could dominate Americans? Did they sacrifice so that Americans could be lied to by their own government rather than a foreign government?
I don’t think so.
That’s why we need to reclaim April 19 as Patriots Day — as the commemoration of a glorious moment in American history, a courageous time, a time of victory and hope.
To get there, though, Americans will have to sacrifice again. Don’t expect freedom and liberty and government accountability to be handed to you. You must fight for it. And you must understand for what you are fighting.
That means purging the demons of Waco and Oklahoma City. That means learning the truth — demanding the truth, fighting for the truth, no matter how much that truth may hurt and no matter whom that truth may hurt.
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