Branch Davidians speak the Seven Seals

Waco continues to get nuts!

Branch Davidians versus the ATF & FBI...how much longer can it last!?! not much...

APRIL 14:

A message from KORESH says that he will not surrender until he has written a manuscript explaining the Seven Seals. At a meeting in SESSIONS's office on the tear gas plan, two military experts and the Army's Dr. Harry SALEM brief RENO, detailing what is known about its effect on children ("...although there had been no laboratory tests performed on children relative to the effects of the gas, anecdotal evidence was convincing that there would be no permanent injury"). CLARKE says the Davidians might be running out of water. RENO asks FBI to gather information about the compound's water supply and estimate how long the Davidians could hold out. FBI says rationing is to ensure discipline, and provisions would last a year. RENO meets with Delta Force commanders to review the tear gas plan. [Scruggs 107, 243, 266, 269, 270]

The compound is stocked with a year's supply of food rations and was otherwise prepared to withstand an extended siege. [Dennis 6]

APRIL 15:

FBI officials report that the compound has enough water to last a significant period of time. HUBBELL talks by phone for two hours with SAGE, who argues for action. [Scruggs 106, 270]

After talking to SAGE, HUBBELL becomes convinced that the negotiators believe there is no further hope of getting the Davidians out through negotiation. [Dennis 57]

APRIL 16:

KORESH tells negotiators that he has completed the manuscript on the First Seal. RENO rejects the tear gas plan, according to what RICHARD says HUBBELL told him. SESSIONS, CLARKE, and POTTS hurry to HUBBELL's office, and SESSIONS asks to speak with RENO. Ten minutes later HUBBELL returns with RENO, who orders a written statement "describing the situation inside the compound, the progress of negotiations, and the merits" of the plan, plus supporting documentation for all factual assertions. [Scruggs 107, 271]

Pic of the Hood

Branch Davidians speak

-insane............

Waco is happening

APRIL 13:

For most of the afternoon, KORESH bombards the negotiators over the phone with what they call "Bible babble," reiterating that he is not coming out until God tells him to do so. HUBBELL meets for 45 minutes in White House counsel Bernard NUSSBAUM's office with top CLINTON aides, Bruce LINDSEY and Vince FOSTER, to discuss the CS gas plan and advise Clinton (This is said to be the "most likely date" of a meeting that occurred sometime during this week.) HUBBELL backs FBI's action plan, citing negotiations impasse and need to pull the HRT back for training. NUSSBAUM reports to CLINTON, telling him that Waco is a matter for the Justice Department to handle. [Scruggs 105, 242, 243, 244]

In case you thought i was sleeping...

WACO ain't over mothafucka'---


APRIL 1:

RICHARD reports his findings to RENO. She assigns Ray JAHN as lead prosecutor and coordinator in the case. DeGUERIN and ZIMMERMAN spend the day inside the compound and tell JAMAR that the Davidians will leave on either April 2 or 10, depending on their Passover observance. [Scruggs 94, 95]

Phil ARNOLD and Jim TABOR, two independent religion experts, appear on talk-show host Ron ENGELMAN's program, interpreting the Book of Revelations as it applies to the standoff.

APRIL 2:

Uneventful. [Scruggs 95. 96]

APRIL 3:

Uneventful. [Scruggs 96]

APRIL 4:

The lawyers meet again with KORESH and reiterate that everyone will come out after Passover. [Scruggs 97]

APRIL 5:

Davidians observe Passover. [Scruggs 97]

APRIL 6:

Despite complaints, the FBI continues broadcasting music throughout the night. [Scruggs 98]

APRIL 7:

KORESH refuses to confirm an exit date. POTTS and Floyd CLARKE, high-ranking FBI officials from Washington, are in Waco to discuss strategy, and HRT commander Richard ROGERS proposes a tear gas plan. [Scruggs 98, 256]

APRIL 8:

Uneventful. [Scruggs 99]

Heaven's Gate

The GRAND FINALE of MARCH CULT MADNESS...
This infamous Cult headed by Marshall Herff Applewhite is no longer around today. They all perished by assisted "suicide" on based on firm beliefs that they were leaving their "containers" and finding salvation via the Hale Bopp Commet. 21 women and 18 men voluntarily committed suicide in three groups on three successive days starting on 1997-MAR-23. Most were in their 40's; the rest covered an age range of 26 to 72. 1 Two months later, two additional members, Charles Humphrey and Wayne Cooke attempted suicide in a hotel room a few miles from the Rancho Santa Fe mansion; Cooke succeeded. Humphrey tried again in the Arizona desert during 1998-FEB and was successful. Overall, 41 members died.
Despite the absence of a core group, 2 members of Heaven's Gate who did not "leave" have been maintaining their web site at www.heavensgate.com and distributing materials and information that the group left behind. Seriously check out their web site! It's an exact replica of when the group exited planet Earth.
During the 1980's the group made over 500 audio tapes of their secluded classroom teachings. They also made 11 video tapes and wrote a large anthology of their teachings. The survivors have digitized over 200 hours of those audio tapes, and about 20 hours of Video material and stored the entire archive on three CD-ROM's. They feel it is important to offer this world a permanent record of this groups activities. They are making the CD's themselves available at no charge, asking only that the shipping charges be covered by the recipient. Email rep@heavensgate.com with your postal address to receive the material.
(i may have to proceed with this!)

Below is an article from Time magazine. If you want to continue reading the article just click on the link following the 3 paragraphs! Also below, are featured videos of Heavens Gate members and delusional founder.

TIME Cover Story

The incredible saga of how a charismatic former music teacher and 38 androgynous followers killed themselves in order to hook up with a UFO.

"Planet earth about to be recycled. Your only chance to survive--leave with us."
--Do, leader of Heaven's Gate

By Elizabeth Gleick

If a group of people are going to choose to die together, it is best to have a master plan: proper burial outfits, packed suitcases, lists, farewell videotapes, even recipes for death. The ghastly jumble of bodies piled upon bodies discovered in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 may have provided a stark lesson in how not to do it. That mass suicide was a disorderly, ungracious way to meet your maker, a study not in serenity but in chaos.

So last week, in that spacious Rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds and mattresses, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new black Nikes. Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body, and all, helpfully, had identification papers for the authorities to find. The house, more than one awed witness noted, was immaculate, tidier even than before the victims had moved in. It was as if, in preparing for their death, the members of what the world now knows as the Heaven's Gate cult were heeding the words of the prophet Isaiah: "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live."

But though the victims may have believed their bodies were merely irrelevant "containers," to be left behind when they were whisked away by extraterrestrials, to the sheriff's deputies who first encountered them, the corpses were most certainly the real thing. The 21 women and 18 men, ranging in age from 26 to 72, were in varying stages of decomposition; the smell permeating the house was so putrid that two sickened officers went to the hospital to be sure they had not inhaled poisonous fumes. As the San Diego medical examiner reported, the cultists died in three groups: a first round of 15, then the next 15, then seven, all apparently by ingesting phenobarbital mixed with a bit of applesauce or pudding, kicked by a shot of vodka, then helped along by the asphyxiating effect of a plastic bag over the head. The final two men--the ultimate angels of death--had only bags, no shrouds. Alone in the master bedroom, his order in the march of death still unknown, was the master himself: 65-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite.
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*Watch there 90 min. classroom video --here--

Waco...

Waco continues through the weekdays! On the 17th, Koresch speaks with FBI negotiator about whether or not he is Jesus Christ. Read an excerpt of the Transcript --HERE--

MARCH 16:

During the day, conversations between the FBI and those in the compound amount to only 46 minutes. [Scruggs 71]


MARCH 17:

KORESH refuses to allow SCHNEIDER to have another face-to-face conversation with SAGE. In a "confrontational" conversation--what JAMAR called the "Dutch uncle conversation"--SAGE urges KORESH to surrender, challenging his sincerity and calling on him to take some positive action. SAGE tells SCHNEIDER his entreaties apparently had "fallen on deaf ears." With SAGE's agreement, JAMAR decides to increase the pressure on KORESH. SMERICK leaves Waco. [ Scruggs 72, 73, 135, 179]

MARCH 18:

The FBI broadcasts a message to those in the compound over a loudspeaker, saying they will be treated fairly if they come out. [Scruggs 73]

MARCH 19:

In a purported attempt to address some of the Davidians' concerns, the FBI delivers to the compound legal documents, letters from KORESH's attorneys and other items. KORESH says he is ready to come out and face the music. Two Davidians, Brad BRANCH and Kevin WHITECLIFF, come out of the compound. [Scruggs 75]


MARCH 20:

Another Davidian, Rita RIDDLE, comes out of the compound. [Scruggs 76]

The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

--(Various Sources)--
This Doomsday Cult was based in Uganda and founded in the late 80s by excommunicated Roman Catholic priests, Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara and Dominic Kataribabo; two excommunicated Roman Catholic nuns; and Credonia Mwerinde, an ex-prostitute.

On March 15 2000, (two days before the church fire) a "farewell" letter was issued by Kibeteere to government officials. That letter spoke of the imminent end of the current generation and the world. Similar sentiments were expressed in a previous communication, which said "God sent us as a movement of truth and justice to notify the people to prepare for the closing of this generation, which is at hand." One official reflecting upon Kibwetere's last letter recalled, "The person who brought the letter bid farewell to the...staff. It was pre-meditated suicide."

At their height, the cult may have included as many as 5,000 members. The 68-year-old self-styled "bishop" was once a prominent Roman Catholic and active in Ugandan politics. In 1998 Kibwetere was hospitalized for treatment of a mental illness. "He had an affective disorder. A cyclical thing. Up and down. Like manic depress[ion]," advised Dr. Fred Kigozi, executive director of Kampala's Butabika mental hospital.



Kibwetere claimed to have visions and hear conversations between Jesus and the Virgin Mary. He said the Virgin Mary complained about the world's departure from the Ten Commandments. And subsequently, that he was commanded to announce a coming Apocalypse in the year 2000.

Kibwetere authored a handbook, which foretold a litany of coming calamities that would destroy most of the world's population. He said only those who obeyed the commandments and followed him might be spared within his church, which he called the "ark."

Joseph Kibwetere merged his leadership with a former prostitute named Credonia Mwerinde often called the "programmer." Some say Mwerinde, who claimed to have met the Virgin Mary, ultimately eclipsed the cult's founder in both real importance and power. Fr. Paul Ikazire, a priest and former cult member said she dominated the group and that "Kibwetere was just a figurehead." He characterized Mwerinde as "a trickster, obsessed with the desire to grab other people's property." The Virgin Mary as channeled through Mwerinde proscribed all the rules of the group.

Credonia Mwerinde preached that personal possessions were evil. She encouraged cult members to sell everything and surrender all their assets to her. Eventually Mwerinde became rich and accumulated farms, houses and cars. Paul Ikazire recalled, "She would come in and say things like: 'The Virgin Mary wants you to bring more money."'

Kibwetere and Mwerinde kept their followers isolated. Any contact with outsiders ("sinners") was strictly monitored and often forbidden. Cult members were predominately poor and former Catholics. They were encouraged to be celibate, sworn to a vow of silence and unable to speak unless in prayer. They often relied upon sign language.



The movement's members rose at dawn, prayed until noon and worked long hours in the fields before going to bed usually at 10 PM. Though newcomers were fed well the regular members largely subsisted on beans. They were hungry, tired, estranged from family and largely cut off from the outside world.

Doomsday predictions were made by the cult's leaders, but pushed forward again and again. Kibwetere's manifesto handbook had been mailed out by the thousands, which was titled "A Timely Message From Heaven: The End of the Present Time." The date for this final event was set for December 31, 2000. When that day passed as another unfulfilled prophecy it is believed that some disgruntled members wanted to leave and have their property returned.



OVERALL GLIMPSE:

On the 17th of March 2000, 530 bodies, of which at least 78 were children, were found to have burned alive in a church in a remote part of Uganda; all part of a Christian apolcalyptic group. 330 skulls were found, the rest had turned to ash. Over 1,000 bodies were found elsewhere in Uganda during the following days, many of which were found to have been strangled. The doors and locks were fastened from the inside, suggesting this was the final intention of the group's leader, not necessarily an outsider murdering them.

On March 24, two mass graves containing 153 bodies were found at a cult compound in Kalingo, 45 km to the west of Kanungu. Some had been dead for more than four months.

Days later, 155 bodies were discovered under a newly-cemented floor in the house of cult leader 'Father' Dominic Kataribabo in Rugazi, 80 km north of Kanungu.

Most of the victims were women and children, many with stab wounds or ropes around their necks. Others were poisoned.



There are many reasons that lead authorities to believe it was a MASS SUICIDE:

- There is one initial report, never unconfirmed, that the members had applied gasoline and paraffin to their skin before the explosion and fire. However, it is difficult to see how the observer could have witnessed these preparations if the windows and doors of the church were nailed shut. If confirmed, this would be one indicator that the deaths might have been the result of a mass suicide, similar to that of Heaven's Gate.
- The police investigation cast doubt on this sole witness; they found no signs of paraffin having been used at the church. Most of the world media initially emphasized the suicide theory. So did representatives of the anti-cult movement who are keen to promote their belief that mass suicide is a logical outcome of cult activity. They accuse cults of brainwashing their membership and reducing their will to act independently.
- Although their fundamental beliefs have been widely discounted by mental health professionals, the ACM has been quite successful in propagating their beliefs among the press and the rest of the public.

However, there are also many indications that the tragedy was actually MASS MURDER:

- Several news sources reported that the doors of the church were nailed shut from the inside. That might indicate that the leadership wanted to confine the full membership within the church in order to murder the entire group.
- The discovery of additional bodies which had been murdered and buried in latrines near the church gives weight to the mass murder theory.
- The discoveries of many hundreds of murder victims at other locations also point towards mass murder.
- Leader Kibwetere appears to have planned the tragedy in advance. He allegedly sent a letter to his wife before the tragedy, encouraging her to continue the religion "because the members of the cult were going to perish the next day.''
- The group's membership are almost entirely ex-Roman Catholic -- a faith that strongly forbids suicide. Traditional belief also very strongly forbids suicide. Finally, local belief is that if a person dies in a fire, that not only their body is killed but their soul is as well. This is the reason why evil sorcerers were once burned alive: so that they would be completely annihilated. It is very unlikely that if a person in this area wanted to commit suicide that they would choose death by fire."



*If you want tons of info on this group, go --HERE--

Waco thru the weekend!

MARCH 13:

SCHNEIDER complains that people inside the compound are cold and freezing. The FBI notifies KORESH that his mother has retained attorneys Richard DeGUERIN and Jack ZIMMERMAN to represent him. [Scruggs 68]

MARCH 14:

At nightfall the FBI begins to illuminate the compound with bright lights "to disrupt sleep, to put additional pressure on those inside and to increase the safety of the HRT." [ Scruggs 69]

MARCH 15:

The FBI establishes a "modified negotiation strategy," continuing to insist on peaceful resolution but refusing to listen to any more of what they call "Bible babble." SCHNEIDER and another Davidian, Wayne MARTIN, meet outside the compound with SAGE and McLennan County Sheriff Jack HARWELL. [Scruggs 70]

More Waco

Waco...

MARCH 12:

RENO is sworn in as Attorney General. SCHROEDER leaves the compound, saying no mass suicide would occur. Dr. John HAGMAN, a local physician, consults over the telephone. Over the objections of some FBI negotiators, JAMAR orders all electricity to be cut off for good, because "he wanted those inside the compound to experience the same wet and cold night as the tactical personnel outside." RENO is extensively briefed on Waco by FBI (Exact day is unclear) [Scruggs 65-67, 142, 240]

The Davidians say the power shut-off is a "huge, huge setback," causing SCHNEIDER and others to change their minds about coming out. The justification for cutting the power is that it is going to be a very cold night and maximum effect would be gained in making the Davidians uncomfortable inside the compound. Also, cutting the power is designed to challenge KORESH's control of the situation and to raise the level of stress within the compound to force more departures. [Dennis 14]

Waco...

MARCH 11:

KORESH does not participate in negotiations until 7:03 p.m., and there is no progress in negotiations except a promise that Kathy SCHROEDER will come out the next day. [Scruggs 64, 65]

-Want to know more about David Koresh:
(source:pbs)

David Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston, Texas in 1959 to a 15-year old single mother. He never knew his father and was raised by his grandparents.
In his late night conversations with FBI agents during the siege, Koresh described his childhood as lonely. He said the other kids teased him and called him "Vernie." He was dyslexic, a bad student, and dropped out of high school. However, he had musical ability and a strong interest in the Bible. By 12, he had memorized large tracts of it.

When he was 20, Koresh turned to the Church of Seventh Day Adventists, his mother's church. But he was expelled for being a bad influence on the young people. Sometime during the next couple of years, Koresh went to Hollywood to become a rock star but nothing came of it. Instead, in 1981 he went to Waco, Texas where he joined the Branch Davidians, a religious sect which in 1935 had settled 10 miles outside of Waco. At one time, it had more than 1,400 members.

Koresh had an affair with then-prophetess Lois Roden who was in her late sixties. The two travelled to Israel together. When Lois Roden died, a power struggle began between Koresh and Lois Roden's son George. For a short time, Koresh retreated with his followers to eastern Texas. But in late 1987 he returned to Mount Carmel in camouflage with seven male followers, armed with five .223 caliber semiautomatic assault rifles, two .22 caliber rifles, two 12-gauge shotguns and nearly 400 rounds of ammunition. During the gunfight, Roden was shot in the chest and hands.

He and his followers went on trial for attempted murder. The seven were acquitted and a mistrial was declared in Koresh's case. (Koresh told the jury he and his men went to Mount Carmel to find evidence of corpse abuse by Roden and their shots were aimed at a tree.)

By 1990 Koresh had become the leader of the Branch Davidians and legally changed his name, saying on the court document that the change was "for publicity and business purposes." He said the switch arose from his belief that he was now head of the biblical House of David. (Koresh is a Hebrew transliteration of Cyrus, the name of the Persian king who allowed the Jews held captive in Babylon to return to Israel.)

Waco...

-MARCH 10:

Electricity is temporarily cut off again. Four and a half hours of negotiations yield no progress. [Scruggs 62, 63]

Waco...

-MONDAY, MARCH 8:

KORESH's wounds are said to be healing well. The FBI delivers six gallons of milk to the compound. SMERICK-YOUNG memo says strong show of force will play into KORESH's hands. GERSON passes his Waco portfolio on to Webster HUBBELL, an acting associate attorney general, who is briefed by the FBI. (Exact day is uncertain.) [Scruggs 60, 182, 240]

A videotape of the children in the compound is sent out by the Davidians. The negotiators' log shows that, when the tape is reviewed, there is concern that if the tape is released to the media, KORESH would gain much sympathy. [Dennis 11]

-TUESDAY, MARCH 9:

At 2:15 a.m., the electricity to the compound is cut off. KORESH says he will not talk further until power is restored, and it is restored. SCHNEIDER expresses outrage over the movement of armored vehicles around the compound. HRT members see weapons in the windows, and firing ports being cut in plywood placed in the windows. SMERICK-YOUNG memo recommends various tactical measures. [Scruggs 60, 61, 183]

On several occasions, tactical pressure is exerted on the Davidians either without consulting the negotiators or over the negotiators' objections. [Dennis 43]

--I left this out from March 7th, following it is a transcript of March 8th events--
TRANSCRIPT: Book of Revelation Discussion

Excerpt from conversation between Branch Davidian leader, David Koresh, and an FBI negotiator (John #4) discussing the Book of Revelation.

March 7, 1993
Early evening

DAVID KORESH: Is this death and hell a person? What is Christ revealed as, according to the fourth seal?

FBI NEGOTIATOR (JOHN): Pale -- a rider on a pale horse.

DAVID KORESH: And his name is what?

FBI NEGOTIATOR (JOHN): Death.

DAVID KORESH: Now, do you know what the name Koresh means?

JOHN: Go ahead.

DAVID KORESH: It means death. You see, the name of God is Yahweh, but the way it's actually pronounced since the first punctuation of time from the ancient writers, is when it says in the Tenach, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, it means thou shall not take his name. His name is Yahweh. And the way it's pronounced is like this. (Breathing in and out). Every time you breathe you're saying the name of God. That's why in Judaism and stuff they never, they never pronounce it according to the word from Yahweh. You fix it --

JOHN: Um-hum.

DAVID KORESH: Okay. So everyone who breathes is taking God's name and if we live without knowing his testimony or his word, we're living in vanity. And we're taking his name in vain. Some people say, well, when I say goddam, that's taking the Lord's name in vain, Well, now, wait a minute. Let's break this down. Does God condemn -- damn means to condemn. Well, no one has the right to tell God to condemn anybody, do they? Do they?

JOHN: No.

DAVID KORESH: No. But God or Got (phonetic sp.), the German word GOT, you know, is another word from another country, you know. There's no such word in the Hebrew, God. There's the word, the Adonai, which means Lord, but the actual proper names of, of the sovereignty of Heaven is Yahweh, El Shaddai, and then what? That's it. Off the manuscript. Yahweh and El Shaddai. But, according to the prophecies, God proclaims to Deuteronomy that he will publish his name somewhere.

So when it talks about Koresh, it's a surname. A surname for God. Now, you get the concordances and the dictionaries out and you'll find out that they'll tell you it's from an unused root word that they don't know what the meaning is. No scholar, no teacher, no concordance in this whole world can tell you what the name Koresh means. They don't know. It's kind of weird, isn't it?

JOHN: No, but you've told me it means death.

DAVID KORESH: Wait a second.

JOHN: Right?

DAVID KORESH: Revelation says Christ has a name that no one knows but he, himself. And his name is the word of God. Okay. Now, if it's true that the proper name of God is Yahweh, which is (Breathing in and out). When you breathe you go Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh. Okay? What do you do when you die? What's the sound your body makes when you die?

JOHN: It doesn't make any sound when you die.

DAVID KORESH: Yes it does.

JOHN: No it doesn't.

DAVID KORESH: Yes it does. You don't know what you're talking about.

JOHN: Your last dying breath? Is that what you want?

DAVID KORESH: Yeah. What does your body do?

JOHN: Rattle.

TRANSCRIPT: Milk Negotiation
Excerpt from conversation between David Koresh, and Sheriff Jack Harwell discussing getting milk for the children.
March 8, 1993 Afternoon

SHERIFF JACK HARWELL : David about those babies on this milk--

DAVID KORESH: But those are our children.

SHERIFF HARWELL: --that concerns me. Why have--I'm, I'm concerned about those babies. I want those babies taken care of. Now, if you need some milk--

DAVID KORESH: Do you know what they're saying now?

SHERIFF HARWELL: --out there I'll see what I can do about getting that milk out there to you because I want those babies taken care of.

DAVID KORESH: Well, here's the thing, Mr. Harwell. What they're saying now is after we've already sent three more kids out, then they're telling us that they want four more kids before they send us the milk.

SHERIFF HARWELL: Well, would that help to, to get the milk out there to you? Would that--

DAVID KORESH: It'll definitely help the babies.

SHERIFF HARWELL: All right. All right. That's good. Would it help us--

DAVID KORESH: And I told them I would send some pictures of the remaining children and the mothers.

SHERIFF HARWELL: If I get that out there to you would that help your, your knowing that I'll do what I tell you? I've, I've not talked to these people here but I will see that that's there, I'll see that it's delivered to you, and--

DAVID KORESH: Well, yeah, I mean we--like we told them, in the position we're in I've been talking to all the guys and stuff here, I said, look, in our profession of faith we know what we believe and we believe what we know. I says now it's between God and them. Now, God's told me to wait, you know, and I'm waiting, I says, but, you know, we have to realize that whatever comes to us after this point is all in the hands of God and there's not a --

SHERIFF HARWELL: Yes, I --

DAVID KORESH: --nation or power that's going to overrule what God wants.

SHERIFF HARWELL: Well, if I get-- how much milk do you need, David?

DAVID KORESH: Well, we, we told them, we told them we needed six gallons because I have--

SHERIFF HARWELL: All right. If I get you six -- I'm, I'm going to see that you get --

DAVID KORESH: -- I have --

SHERIFF HARWELL: -- six gallons of milk brought out, but I'm not going to let those babies suffer because of --

DAVID KORESH: There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen -- there are sixteen kids here that still drink milk.

SHERIFF HARWELL: Well, do you think six gallons is enough?

DAVID KORESH: Well, yeah, I mean, we, we figure --

SHERIFF HARWELL: All right. I'll, I'll see that you get the six gallons of milk. If -- I'll need to get them and work that out. Now, I'm not going to be able to sit here with you David and work all the terms. What I wanted to do to you -- I say with you is to sit here and talk from my heart to you and let you know that we --

DAVID KORESH: Well, I appreciate it and we love you all.

SHERIFF HARWELL: -- we're concerned about you all and we, we care for you. We love you and those babies I just -- it just makes my heart swell up to see those kids come out and how well they've been taken care of and, and all this.

DAVID KORESH: And, and --

SHERIFF HARWELL: And they're being taken care of now. Now, I can't answer -- I wasn't involved in how they were going to be -- I know they're in good care now but I wasn't involved and wasn't aware that --

DAVID KORESH: Right.

SHERIFF HARWELL: -- they were supposed to be turned over to parents and grandparents or what that process was. I've been involved in other things, David, trying to keep --

DAVID KORESH: Yeah, I understand.

SHERIFF HARWELL: -- some level head about all this so that we can resolve this thing. You don't know how deeply I mean it when I say I want you all out without your being hurt.

Witch Hunters of Indonesia

- Indonesian Witch Hunters: Since September, 1998, more than 153 people have been murdered in East Java by groups of men clad in black wearing Ninja-style masks. The victims have been mostly Muslim clerics, black magicians and other people accused of sorcery.

The killers have struck against the sorcerers at night, cutting their throats and sometimes hanging their mutilated bodies in trees or tossing them in the street. Victims sometimes have been cut into small pieces and their body parts thrown into mosques.

Shocked by the mysterious murders, Indonesia's justice minister proposed outlawing black magic. In scenes reminiscent of the Salem witch hunts, mobs have also attacked and killed people suspected of being black magicians. Police have arrested more than 100 suspects, but acknowledge there's no clear motive for the grisly slayings.

-Witch Killers in Congo: (800 deep) Since June 15, 2001, over 800 suspected witches were hacked to death in villages in rebel-held northeastern Congo. "Villagers were saying that some people had bewitched others, and they started lynching them. By the time we discovered this, 60 people had already been killed by early last week. About 200 people lost their lives," Brig. Henry Tumukunde said.

Ugandan troops -- who had been in northeastern Congo since 1998 in support of a rebellion against the Congolese government but had been evacuated earlier in the year -- were sent back to the area to stop the killings. The killings began in Aru, 50 miles south of Sudan on the Ugandan border, but have quickly spread throughout northeastern Congo. Diseases and other troubles endemic to the region were being blamed on witchcraft which in turn led to the rampaging violence.

-THERE'S MORE: According to The New Foreign Policy Magazine, in Paupa New Guinea, where the AIDS crisis has been increasing significantly, there is a surge in clashes between victims and those still relying on traditional folklore. AIDS deaths are often attributed to witchcraft and followed by brutal retribution against those deemed responsible (usually women). The government is trying to devise a comprehensive approach to the disease, but it will have to contend with deep-grained beliefs, like this matter-of-fact justification by a farmer who killed his neighbors:

"We ran after them and we chopped their heads off with an axe and a bush knife. I felt sorry for them but they were witches, they deserved to die. If they were still alive they could hurt people with their magic." (source-http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/)

The New York Times released an article in 2001. Below are the first two paragraphs, follow the link after that to continue reading:
In this verdant farm belt of West Java, where sorcery and superstition have deep roots, few were surprised last September when an angry mob decapitated a 70-year-old woman accused of casting spells that made people ill. Before lopping off her head, witnesses said, the crowd gouged out her eyes and severed some of her limbs, which they tossed into the street.

Beheadings of suspected witches are not uncommon in rural towns and villages of Java, Indonesia's most populous and perhaps most mystical island. The local police estimate that there were at least 100 witch killings in Java last year. Still, few people seemed upset by the killings, which typically occur in Indonesia's backwaters and are committed under the guise of wiping out evil.
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The Raelian Movement: Inteligent Design for Athiests

This cult is all about clones, aliens and group sex...



Still confused?
The Raelian Movement is the founder of the Clonaid company which claims to have produced the first cloned baby.
The movement claims to have about 40,000 members in several countries, although the number is difficult to verify.
The sect, which believes humans were created by extra-terrestrial beings who had mastered genetic engineering, was founded in France in 1973 by a former journalist who worked for a racing car magazine.

From the Raelian Movement Website:
On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth.

The extra-terrestrial human being was a little over four feet tall, had long dark hair, almond shaped eyes, olive skin, and exuded harmony and humor. Rael recently described him by saying quite simply, "If he were to walk down a street in Japan, he would not even be noticed." In other words, they look like us, and we look like them. In fact, we were created "in their image" as explained in the Bible.

He told Rael that:

"We were the ones who designed all life on earth"
"You mistook us for gods"
"We were at the origin of your main religions"
"Now that you are mature enough to understand this,we would like to enter official contact through an embassy"

LEVELS of a Raelian
Level 6: Guide of Guides. Planetary guide
Level 5: Bishop. Continental head. National guide. Regional guide
Level 4: Priest. National guide. Regional guide
Level 3: Assistant Priest. Regional guide
Level 2: Organizer
Level 1: Assistant Organizer
Level 0: Trainee

Korean Followers at a Raelian rally

There's more: (you have to read this!!)
Prior to Clonaid, most media coverage of the Raëlians focused on the group's sexual beliefs and practices. While the Raëlians contend that they are wrongly presented in the press as a "sex cult," they seem to simultaneously invite and dismiss the reputation. In an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Raël denies that the group is centered on eroticism, then boasts that a 65-year-old Catholic nun "discovered sexual pleasure in her tent with a boyfriend" at a Raëlian retreat. Raël also enjoys posing for photographs with his nubile, topless disciples. The group's literature features pictures of nude women who appear to be in the midst of ogasmic throes.

Raël details the origins of his free-love philosophy in his book. After meeting his fellow prophets on the Elohim Planet, a robot showed Raël to his room and asked him if he wanted a female companion. When Raël answered in the affirmative, he was presented with a beautiful, brunet, biological sex robot. Then a blonde appeared, followed by a redhead, a "magnificent black woman," a "very fine, slender Chinese female," and finally another Asian woman, this one voluptuous. Because Raël could not decide which of the beautiful robots to bed, the Elohim allowed him to take all six. "I had the most unforgettable bath that I had ever had in the company of those charming robots, totally submissive to all my desires," recalls Raël.

Raël foresees a day when all humans will be able to have sex with robots. "Of course, the feminists will not like it," says Raël. "But nobody has any feelings against using a washing machine or a dishwasher." Raël says that while there is much sex among the movement's members, freedom of sexuality also includes the freedom not to have sex.

Raëlians are programmed not to be jealous. They are taught that, if they are truly happy with themselves, they will want their partner to be happy, and if happiness means the partner must sleep around, the partner should be allowed to do so.

While Raël copulates with many of his female followers, the ewes in his flock are not required to perform sex acts on their messiah. "I am getting old," says Raël. "I am less attractive than before. I'm 54 now. There are a lot of young men in the movement who are very beautiful."

Every July, hundreds of Raëlians meet in Quebec, where the group owns land. The gathering puts Raël's free-love theories into practice. "It is a one-week seminar," says Raël. "We teach everything about the Message and being happy. There is a 24-hour fast to cleanse the body and the mind, a lot of parties, many shows and people just happy together. There are a lot of beautiful women naked. The rest of the time, people enjoy swimming in the lake."

The classes include sensual massage and coed painting sessions, where devotees rub paint on each other's naked bodies. Between teachings, the Raëlians play nude volleyball.

"I was in an exclusive relationship when I became a Raëlian," says Florence, a Frenchwoman who presently resides in San Francisco. "I started a new life. I was not the same Florence that I had been even a few months earlier, and then I discovered I was bisexual."

On the Canadian property, Raël's condo is connected to UFOland. The small theme park is basically a building that houses a replica of the spaceship that transported Raël (which some members insist is a working model) and a 26-foot sculpture of the human DNA structure.

Raël moved from his native France to Quebec to escape what he says is religious persecution at the hands of the French government. "They try to make rumors about pedophilia, which we are against. We are for sexual freedom for adults only. Any time you are in favor of sexual freedom, people try to say you favor pedophilia."

While Raël opposes pedophilia, ten years ago he married the 16-year-old daughter of one of his disciples. "She was less than 18 when I met her, and I did not want to go to jail; so we got married," says Rael. "When she reached the legal age, we divorced, because we are against marriage."

Married or not, the couple enjoys an open relationship. Or, at least, Raël enjoys the relationship's openness. "She is not a very sexual person; so she is very happy if I can find what she does not enjoy so much with other people. She's happy with once a week, and I need more; so I find it somewhere else."

Although Raëlians believe that the human race was created on April 1, the Raëlian calendar begins on August 6, 1945, the day that the United States bombed Hiroshima. According to the Raëlians, the event brought about the Age of Apocalypse. (source-Hustler Magazine/January 2002, Dan Kapelovitz. Full article --HERE--)

Go to their website --HERE--

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Stray from cults my hoods!

SANTA MUERTE photo series & rituals

Click --HERE-- to check out the photo series of SANTA MUERTE by TIME magazine.

Below, the Cult Handbook for Santa Muerte practitioners is
Juan Ambrosio’s La Santa Muerte Biografía y Culto: Ventiséis rituales personales para conseguir salud, dinero y amor.
Which is, effectively, a recipe book for Santa Muerte rituals. The book contains twenty-six rituals. Enjoy my hoods...

Ritual & Translation:

1. El poder de las tres muertes
The power of the three deaths

2. La mano de la muerte: para que se cumplan nuestros más caros anhelos
The hand of death: to fulfill the most dear yearnings

3. Ritual para alejar a las malas amistades de nuestra pareja
Ritual to send away bad friendships from our partner

4. Ritual contra la magia negra
Ritual against black magic

5. Ritual para alejar un amante
Ritual to send away a lover

6. Ritual para alejar a los novios
Ritual to send away fiancés

7. Para que tu pareja te ayude económicamente
So that your partner helps you economically

8. Para que no entren chismes o nertía negative en tu casa o negocio
So that gossip or negative energy does not enter your home or business

9. Velación a la Santa Muerte para que nos paguen una deuda
Prayer to Santa Muerte so that a debt is paid to us

10. Ritual para socorrer a quienes estan presos
Ritual to comfort those in prison

11. La balanza de la justicia: ritual para resolver problemas legales
The balance of justice: ritual to resolve legal problems

12. Ritual para quienes serán sometidos a una intervención quirúrgica
Ritual for those who will undergo surgery

13. Bálsamo de la Santa Muerte para que marche bien tu negocio
Balsam of Santa Muerte so that your business does well

14. Ritual para incrementar las ventas en tu negocio
Ritual to increase sales in your business

15. Ritual para limpiar tu dinero
Ritual to clean your money

16. Tres recetas sencillas para obtener dinero
Three simple prescriptions to obtain money

17. Ritual del chocolate para dominar al amante, novio o esposo
Ritual of chocolate to dominate your lover, fiancé or spouse

18. Baño de la Santa Muerte para el amor
Bath of Santa Muerte for love

19. Novena para ligar a una persona
Novena to bind a person

20. Para un amor difícil
For a difficult love

21. Amuleto de la Santa Muerte para tu automóvil
Amulet of Santa Muerte for your automobile (used for protection when buying a
vehicle, when suffering frequent vehicle problems, or suffering accidents, or
when vehicle is jinxed)

22. Para retirar al mal vecino
To send away a bad neighbor

23. Ritual para que se alejen las malas amistades de nuestros hijos
Ritual to send away bad friends of your children

24. Otro ritual para alejar malas amistades
Another Ritual to send away bad friends

25. Velación a la Santa Muerte para que nuestros hijos no abandonen los estudios
Prayer to Santa Muerte so that our children do not abandon their studies

26. Velación para que un matrimonio no se realice
Prayer so that a marriage does not happen

*does anybody know where to find santa muerte clothing aside from Mexico City and Van, BC???