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>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:10:42 -0800
>From: James Swayze <swayzej@earthlink.net>
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: Waco Test Shows "OBVIOUS GUNFIRE"
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>
>
>
>Ian Goddard wrote:
>>
>> FBI critics claim that FLIR video taken over Waco reveals
>> automatic gunfire into the community on the last day. The
>> FBI counters with the claim that the flashes are not gun
>> shots and that FLIR can't even detect gunfire. However,
>> an inside source informs Matt Drudge that during FLIR
>> tests conducted in Waco today: "The hot flashes were
>> completely recreated using a sniper on the ground."
>>
>> Excerpted quotation of Drudge Report:
>>
>> =============================================================
>> XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN MARCH 19 2000 20:48:09 ET XXXXX
>>
>> SOURCES: WACO RE-ENACTMENT SHOWS 'OBVIOUS GUNFIRE';
>> FLASHES CAPTURED ON TAPE
>>
>> **Exclusive**
>>
>> Rapid-fire bursts of light appearing on aerial infrared
>> surveillance footage made by the FBI during the 1993 showdown
>> at Waco were spectacularly recreated on Sunday, according to
>> investigators, rapid-fire bursts recreated by flashes from gunfire!
>>
>> "The hot flashes were completely recreated using a sniper on
>> the ground," revealed a congressional source, one of 35 people
>> to witness the court-ordered re-enactment of the final hours
>> of the Branch Davidian showdown.
>>
>> A second source also present at the tightly-controlled test
>> conducted at Fort Hood said the FBI, which claimed the '93
>> flashes were simply reflections of sunlight off debris and
>> water, has been dealt a setback on Sunday.
>>
>> =============================================================
>> SEE FULL DRUDGE REPORT: http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm
>> =============================================================
>>
>> ========================================================
>> WACO PROTEST: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/waco-1.htm
>> ========================================================
>>
>> "There are times when you cannot keep your job and
>> put alternative explanations for data on the table."
>> Former FBI Special Agent Dr. Frederic Whitehurst
>
The test actually works AGAINST the agent-firing hypothesis, as in the FLIR recreation, people are visible next to all the fired weapons, whereas in the original FLIR, no contiguous people are visible. Guns do not kill people unless other people are firing them, and such people being visible in EVERY instance of the "recreational" gunfire, but in NO instance of the original glints, the test results do not bode well for the contentions of the Branch Davidians' attorney that such glints represent gunfire.
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