Remember Waco A Look Back at the Tragedy at Mt. Carmel On February 28, 1993, an eighty-vehicle convoy of BATF agents in full combat gear approached the Mt. Carmel Center, a sprawling ranch-style complex where 120 Branch Davidians lived, worked, played and prayed. With snipers in position and helicopters providing air support, the BATF began a violent assault which ended with four agents and sixteen Branch Davidians dead. After a 51-day siege, the FBI led a final assault on the complex, and a blaze erupted which consumed almost eighty women, children and men. The outrages committed by the government -- criminal acts, legal deceptions, outright lies -- are too numerous to summarize here. Something terrible happened in Waco, and it wasn't just the tragic loss of life. The BATF and the FBI crossed an invisible, but understood, line that exists between the People and the State, and in a lot of ways, things haven't been quite the same since. To promote full understanding of the events at Waco, ParaScope takes a look back at the tragic events through the eyes of survivor Livingstone Fagan, whose wife and mother died in the blaze. Read "Mt. Carmel: The Unseen Reality," the manuscript Fagan wrote soon after starting his 40-year prison sentence. For more first-hand information on the Waco fiasco, read "The Last Testament of the Branch Davidians," a transcript of a videotape smuggled out of Mt. Carmel during the seige. The videotape contains short interviews with over a dozen Branch Davidians, almost all of whom in the flames on April 19, 1993. To see the wreckage of the place that 120 people once called home, browse the Waco Photo Gallery; consult the Waco Weblinks for more information. Livingstone Fagan's "Mt. Carmel: The Unseen Reality" The Last Will & Testament of the Branch Davidians Waco Photo Gallery Waco Weblinks What do you think? Tell us in the message boards!