Tom Cook for Livingstone Fagan.

Postmarked August 21st 2001

Waco: The Siege Continues…

I write this paper in anticipation of a serious crisis I foresee soon to unfold. The circumstances of my incarceration require me to be less specific than I would like, but sufficiently so for the discerning to see.

It has been 8 years now since this government perpetrated its brutal assault on our community in Waco, Texas. At the conclusion of that assault 80 of our members (including my wife, mother and relative) were murdered by agents of this government. Since that time those of our community who remained alive have borne a cumulative array of injustices as this government has sought to cover-up its wrong doing in an effort to hold itself not guilty.

Several of our young men (including myself) continue to be held imprisoned after a trial that was so transparent in its mockery of justice that one is left wide-eyed in disbelief. In the course of my imprisonment I have encountered many things. Not least of which is the number of prisoners who like myself have been the victims of this government in its blatant injustices carried out in the name of the citizens of this country. On top of all of this the fierce administrative, psychological and outright brute force employed in the prison regime to keep suppressed the cry of these prisoners for justice. I still carry scars from some of the encounters I’ve been through.

It has been a year now I’ve been held at this maximum-security unit here in Marion, known notoriously in prison speech as "little Alcatraz." Like most prisoners held here I have gone through a number of state and federal facilities before my arrival. It was here I learned of a covert government program of religious inoculation known as "E-code." It is presented under the cloak of "rehabilitation." The program consists of a series of stages the prisoner has to complete prior to his release. When I first learned of it there were two specific aspects that immediately caught my attention.

Firstly, participants had to formally consent and in so doing agree to keep confidential all information pertaining to the program. Secondly, as a part of the curriculum under a subheading "Peace maker" lies a clause soliciting an agreement to "…reconcile to God as we know him through spirituality…" I was curious to learn who the "we" referred to. I later discovered from a member of the prison staff involved that this program was conducted in conjunction with the Baptist and Lutheran religious organizations. I thought to myself "so much for church and state separation."

As you know the Baptist religious organization is the largest protestant denomination in this country. The Lutherans as you also know claim an historical link to the 16^th century reformer Martin Luther. The man principally accredited with the dawn of the reformation giving birth to protestantism.

I sought to engage the prison staff member in a discourse hoping to place before

him the situation this creates in my circumstances. Upon reflection, there we were in Waco, Texas, a religious community in pursuit of God under the supposed protection of the 1^st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We were subsequently attacked by the government who seemingly did not like our brand of religion. We are mercilessly decimated, the greater number of our members murdered. Of those who remain alive several of us (including myself) are imprisoned following a bogus trial not unlike that of Christ 2,000 years ago. Our lives are made to be extremely uncomfortable. And now in order to be released from this condition I am forced to undergo a program of religious inoculation supposedly to "reconcile me to God" according to the understanding of the Baptist and Lutheran religious organizations. Further, with the full force and support of the government.

When I confronted the staff member, without saying a word he hastily scurried away from my cell door. Since I will not pursue this program I imagine my release from Marion remains in doubt.

No where in this memo does it mention the purpose for this. Significantly also, where in Law has it been established that the government has a right to our blood above our refusal to give it? I consider this a declaration of war. I have a conscientious obligation to defend myself. The framers of the Constitution knew what they were doing when they included the 2^nd Amendment. They too recognized the conscientious right of self-defense. Against criminals and tyrannical governments alike.

It was interesting that sometime prior to receiving this memo I read an article in the "USA Today" about establishing a DNA databank. Also there were several TV programs lauding the virtue of DNA testing using prisoners as guinea pigs. Upon reflection I now see clearly what was behind all that.

The "scientific" community has unleashed upon the world a battery of highly specialized, highly dangerous technology over which it has little or no control. In their singular devotion scientists are seemingly oblivious to the social and political consequences of their inventions until after the fact. Nuclear weapons have been the single most irresponsible invention that has so frightened and changed the world since 1945. Einstein’s effort to stem the tide of nuclear proliferation after having been responsible for its initial creation only serves to highlight this irresponsibility. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the scriptures tell us were for purposes other than the mere hitting back at the Japanese. That situation merely provided an opportunity. Humanity now labors under the fear and tyranny of nuclear annihilation. The very conditions that inevitably brings it about. As a blackhole it daily sucks the blood and joy of life from the bosom of mankind robbing us of our future. Our sons and daughters are dashed against the wall. Like piss, their blood split, a human sacrifice on the altar of science.

Just having the technical know how alone is not enough of a determinant to decide whether a thing is to be created or not. Assurance of proper judgement and motive in the use of it is of greater consideration. It is understood that men are not generally trustworthy. I can imagine a situation where DNA material is planted in order to frame a person innocent of a "crime" in question. Then what? Not to mention other sinister purposes for which DNA material can be used. If one thinks this kind of thing doesn’t or won’t happen, then one is a fool. In this sinful world everything is subject to misuse and will be misused.

In contemplation of the above situations that have now presented themselves I sense we are once again at that place similar to the one we were presented with at Waco. If the government wishes to force us to believe as it wants us to and at the pain of death then the same outcome is to result. I have no intentions of abandoning my faith and the faith of my dearly departed friends (murdered at the hands of this government for their faith) in order that their murderers can live with themselves. Not that I believe these people care. In fact I think they are passed caring. Nonetheless, they will have to murder me also.

There are others held here at Marion and other facilities, though not of my particular faith but believers nonetheless, who similarly would rather face death than comply with this incursion upon our faith and bodies that this government intends. It is of vital importance that this be understood. I am acutely aware of how the government spins the truth in order to conceal itself. Like believers in God before us we commit the keeping of our souls into the hand of God. Rev 4:1-3; 5:1.