209.244.109.245 writes:

i received this in email today November 04,1999 William

I do not see any coverage of the Washington, DC viewing of Mike McNulty's
Waco: A New Revelation. Lee Hancock of the Dallas Morning News has already
reported and submitted her Waco story to print and online. I am very
disappointed that no word of this was mentioned given the recent important
evidence about Waco.
Your continuing silence about Waco, and lack of journalistic investigating is
disheartening at the very least. Did any of you file FOIA's?
When someone breaks this case wide open, you people barely yawn!
Why has the silence over Waco been so deafening? I cannot believe what I
have seen happen, ever since the FBI started it's one sided news conferences
in 93'.
That was the complete end of any real unbiased reporting, and it continues
today.

Dead Branch Davidian Michael Schroeder's MISSING dark blue stocking cap has
been FOUND in an evidence room by Mike McNulty! VITAL evidence that his
mother has been desperately searching for! FBI told us it was LOST.

NO one told or is telling their side, no one was allowed to see the innocents.
NONE of you show those faces... those mothers and babies, who were normal and
HUMAN as any of us. I do not care what they believed in, and that certainly
wasn't an issue there. But the FBI demonized them in front of all America,
in effect, mocking them. They didn't bat an eye in the end, to send in a
deadly mixture of CS gas and MC (methylene chloride)with the Bradley's.
When CS is burned, it produces hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used to execute
prisoners on Death Row. WHY weren't you reporting that to us?

FBI called burn units prior to the gassing putting two hospitals on stand by.
Not to mention various other "precautions" taken in the likely event of a
fire. (Likely since the entire home was nothing but plywood scraps and 2x4's,
NOT to mention the FBI intelligence that tells us there were literally
hundreds of Coleman fuel canisters in there to light lanterns and candles,
for warmth and light since they were totally without POWER. Strange that the
local FIRE STATION was NOT fore warned of the upcoming event, even though
hospitals were. (WHY is no one answering these questions?)
Government says fire couldn't have been better planned for. They lie.

*CS gas in large doses causes the victim to be come disorientated, it greatly
diminishes their ability to make decisions.
It blinds them, and burns their lungs, causing vomiting of mucus and bile,
and muscle wrenching seizures. Extended exposure causes unconsciousness and
it can and does KILL*

Another FACT, It is NOT normally dissolved into a solution!
Janet Reno authorized the CS/MC combination.

Janet Reno is highly educated in chemistry. In fact,Bachelors Degree in
Chemistry at Syracuse University, later on to get her Masters Degree in
Chemistry at one of our nations top chemistry colleges, Cornell University.
For her to claim ignorance after the fact, is to call us blind and deaf.

It's right before your eyes. Why are you not reporting this? Who's pocket
will it be hurting to have such a thing printed? I don't understand the press
and how it is ran. I'm 28, mother of two severe hemophiliacs, I vote, I
abide the law, and I thought this was a free, great country. I do not
understand, a one man crusade to publish EVIDENCE showing GROSS governmental
injustice and negligence, and a PRESS that IGNORES it! The cry that any one
opposing the "official" spin on things is immediately deemed a conspiracy
nut, does not excuse away clear and viable evidence that exists, showing a
clear trail of horrible mistakes, and forth knowledge of their negligent and
intentional actions. They have admitted to targeting the room where the
women and children hid. They CONCENTRATED on that room, awaiting the mothers
"instincts" to get her children out of there. It's too bad most were dead
from the cyanide gasses expelled from the heated fumes, some while their
children were still alive to witness this! Where's the story about THAT? A
dangerous chemical that kills... being used against AMERICANS? BEFORE we find
them guilty of ANYTHING!?
The Branch Davidians are all but DEAD! And the ones that survived are so darn
OLD and sick, not to mention basically homeless... it's pathetic and sad.
NO ONE is speaking out for them, and they are being demonized a second time,
and only a handful of people have even LOOKED into their cases!
I recently became aware of the plight of a mother of one of those Branch
Davidians.
Sandy Connizzo, her son Michael Schroeder was killed by 14 law officers on
February 28, 1993 while trying to ENTER Mt. Carmel after hearing word that
his family was being shot at. His wife, infant son, and 3 step children were
trapped inside their home that day.
Michael carried with him a 9MM, fully registered and legally owned.
6 of the 14 officers allowed to be questioned (the others have NOT been)
state Michael stood in an open field,approximately 100 yards away, wearing a
dark blue stocking cap, when officers say they called out to him to halt and
put his hands up and after a period of 30 seconds of just staring at each
other, Michael raised his weapon and fired at officers. Officers say he fired
three times in their direction then with return fire, they opened up on
Michael's position. All 14 officers were carrying various weapons ranging
from snipers rifles, to pistols and shotguns, Michael was armed with a
pistol.
Opposing accounts come from a 62 year old man, laying face down in the grass
between Michael Schroeder and the firing agents. He swears the first three
shots were from a large caliber rifle, the second shots were from Michael's
side. The first coming from the barn where agents were stationed.

Equally important is the collaborating statement made by one of the Special
Agents who, when interviewed on March 5, by Texas Rangers, said: "Now, the
fire, the fire sounded to me like what I know as rifle fire because it had
that, that familiar crack at the end... it DIDN'T sound like 9mm fire. I
know what 9mm rounds sound like."

They eventually hit Michael from his indefensible position, and he jerked a
couple of times, the officers stated, and he fell. They watched him for
several minutes, and called a cease fire while they waited to see what would
happen.

Unfortunately what the coroners pages tells us is much different....
It shows four shots hit Michael's torso and limbs. As an example, one shot
entered his right shoulder, punctured his lung, and another which struck him
just above the waist on his right side, puncturing this young mans iliac
artery.

Official cause of death is "internal injuries due to multiple gunshot wounds"
Due to the extensive damage the above stated wounds caused, common sense
shows he wouldn't have been standing very long, if at all after the first
shot hit him.

The VERY important fact of this coroners report, is the fact that Michael
Schroeder also suffered three other wounds that wouldn't have been listed as
his cause of death, being they were received after the killing shots.

Two were on the right side of his head, going to the brain, the other was at
the back of his head. Presumably an exit wound from one of the other two
bullets.
According to trial testimony of 6 of the agents, none of the lawmen
approached Schroeder, or his corpse, to make sure that he was dead, WHO he
was, or to perhaps offer him custody in a guarded hospital room till he was
healed?

They walked away from his body. They claimed they didn't deliver any close
shots to his head for any reason, and did not visually inspect the dead
"suspect" what so ever.

The coroners report would correspond with the officers statements about no
close head shot being delivered.
Because there was no trace of powder residue usually found in such cases.
Michael's dark blue stocking cap would have acted as a filter for the
residue, but there was a problem....
it disappeared en route to the coroner.

Michael's DARK BLUE STOCKING CAP was last seen placed inside the hood of his
sweat shirt,just inches from his head when his body was recovered FOUR days
later. Then IT DISAPPEARED.
It was not in his body bag, and did not turn up when Rangers tried to
investigate the shooting a second time.

Law officials LEFT that mans body to rot for FOUR days, while JEFF JAMAR
REFUSED Rangers or ANYone from retrieving it, or investigating. NOT one shot
was fired from the Branch Davidians side, since before the BATF removed it's
agents from the property. The fear of being shot was NOT a valid excuse for
leaving this man out there, and NOT allowing investigators inside to view the
evidence.

FOUR days later, after constantly being questioned by fearful parents of
Michael Schroeder WHERE their son was, they told them he was dead.

TEN DAYS later, JEFF JAMAR allowed a limited search of the area surrounding
Michael's death.
The Rangers requested to make MOLDS around Michael's body to see if any of
the lawmen approached Schroeder's body. JAMAR REFUSED. Rains further washed
away any possibility of gaining evidence, and Texas Rangers bitterly
complained that vital evidence was being lost. Jamar STILL REFUSED.

Both federal officials involved in this initial investigation called for an
independent inquiry. Along the way such talk was either mooted, or denied.
NO word has been given to Michael Schroeder's mother about the events of what
happened that day, or whether ANYONE is further investigating the serious
inconsistencies in agents reports, testimony of the 62 yr. old man present
(now 68yrs old), the agent confirming his testimony about law officers
shooting first, or the fact that JEFF JAMAR was impeding a crime
investigation which Texas Rangers had full jurisdiction of, being it was in
Texas.

NO ONE has reported that Investigator Mike McNulty has FOUND Michael
Schroeder's dark blue stocking cap in the evidence locker currently in
storage!!!
He reported that it DID have residue of some kind on it, and it NEEDS
ANALYZED!
WHY aren't you contacting Sandy Connizzo? (HREF="mailto:sandycon@zephyrnet.com">sandycon@zephyrnet.com)
Or the investigators and lawyers involved?
(Dan Gifford,
SomFord@worldnet.att.net),
(Branch Davidian lawyer Dave Hardy -
dhardy@goodnet.com)

Sandy has filed FOIA's for almost 7 years now will very tiny results. She
received a REDACTED copy of her own sons autopsy report, and coroners notes,
after repeatedly battling the system to recover them. WHY!?!?!? WHY was most
of it blacked out????
SHE DEMANDS to see a full report. WHY isn't she being allowed Michael's
property? Why isn't Michael's surviving wife being allowed? Judge Walter
Smith, the judge presiding over the Branch Davidians wrongful death suit,
admonished the lawyers for even attempting to bring Michael's case before the
court. He called it frivolous, and threw it out. IF that is the final
ruling, they need to give this mother her sons belongings. WE will conduct
our OWN investigation,and have the evidence analyzed.

There are too many unanswered questions in this case to simply walk away.
This case is not over.
I am so sad, that the press has ignored any and all calls for help from these
Americans.
Where is the unbiased reporting? History making investigative reporting?
Showing BOTH sides of an issue, and not always repeating only what you are
fed.
Please do not let that be the case here. This woman and this family
desperately needs help. Michael's step children and son are growing up now,
and they are trying to get on with their lives. This new information has
opened old wounds, and they hurt deeply. Everyone's silence and lack of
caring are incredible, and deeply sad.
She is being given the SAME run around that Arizona Attorney Dave Hardy was
given when he finally sued and won his suit against the government. She is
being abused a second time, and no one hears her pleas for help. She did
nothing wrong. She only wants answers, and her boys belongings.
Why is our government stonewalling her????

Even if you read this and turn away, please be aware of this family and what
happened to them. It is a very important issue at Waco, that should not be
forgotten or lost in the shuffle. I IMPLORE you to not look away after
knowing these facts! Please.

Thank you


William McGivers
News Page