And this is where it all gets very frightening. With the exception of the historically recent collapse of The Soviet Union and the desatellization of eastern Europe, the replacement of a tyrannical government has usually been accompanied by violence as has secession. 

The attempted secession of The American Confederacy of southern states led to the bloodiest conflict in our history leaving an entire section in poverty and setting its development back decades. More than 600,000 Americans lost their lives in that horror with the tacit approval of the then current Liar-in-Chief. Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 tried to leave the Soviet sphere of influence only to be crushed by their tanks, in Hungary under Nikita Khrushchev and in Czechoslovakia, under Leonid Brezhnev. 

Much forgotten has been the attempted secession of Biafra Province from Nigeria in the late 1960s which cost three million lives and the granddaddy of all twentieth-century butcheries was the uprising and attempted secession by Armenia from Turkey which resulted in a suppression that Armenians today call the First Genocide. The world’s acquiescence prompted none other than Adolf Hitler to voice non-concern in the plans for his exterminations.

What all these things mean is that the world won’t care about us as our federal government takes whatever steps it deems necessary to perpetuate its power. Indeed, much of the world will regard it as a spectator sport, poetic justice or worthy karma to watch it happen after the horrors our imperialism has heaped on it. 

And what is likely to happen here in the U.S. of A? Those prospects aren’t particularly encouraging. Of course, there was the precedent of The War Against Confederate Secession but there have been things that have been more ominous recently. At least many of the horrors under Abraham Lincoln’s butchery had the aura of legitimacy conferred by battle where excesses often occur with minimal time for reflection. Then look at Waco. 

The siege at the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco, Texas began February 28, 1993 and lasted 51 days. In an initial fracas, four government agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. Prior to the final assault, nearly two dozen children were released. In the final assault on April 19, 1993, 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children and two pregnant women were killed. After the assault, the compound was leveled and about eight Branch Davidians pleaded to various charges. They were imprisoned with some still serving their sentences.

Many of the details are in dispute but no one challenges these several facts about that standoff. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), the previous July had received information about possible illegal weapons at the compound. When cult leader David Koresh heard about it, he actually invited the ATF agents to come to the compound and inspect it themselves. Koresh himself regularly went into Waco (the compound was several miles outside the city) and could easily have been detained with no harm to anyone. McLennan County Sheriff Jack Harwell tried to persuade the ATF men into simply talking to the leaders. The G-men declined each and every one of these options.

If Carwash reigned over the Branch Davidians, as the government maintained, it is very possible that without him, they might have simply surrendered. And if they had inspected the compound they might have found their fears unfounded. Had they simply talked to the leaders, the final assault might have been unnecessary. 

But they didn’t and I believe it was because there was much more was going on than simply concern over a small religious group. No, Waco was about much more than that. And therein hangs several more lessons about the death of this confederation of free republics.

This is the first in an, as yet, undetermined number of installments on the subject of the death of The United States of America.



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