Posted for L. Neil Smith by Cathy Smith                            THE LIES OF TEXAS  Okay, what have we learned?  For reasons still being kept secret, a federal agency already known  -- well enough to be examined and rebuked by several legislative  committees over the years -- for a longstanding, violent disregard of the law, invades the home of a man whose religious beliefs and  personal habits they abominate, violating his rights under the  First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to  the Constitution.   The man and his followers fight back, killing four of the outlaw  agency's minions, wounding many more, and suffering their own  losses in the process. The agency responds by cutting off his  electricity, water, and especially his contact with the outside  world. They are then free to say anything at all about him -- in  pronouncements that contradict one another daily as the agency  finds itself locked in a bitter power struggle with another outfit  eager to gain credit for "straightening out the mess" -- and, more  importantly, to script his side of the subsequent "negotiations"  any way they please.   The impasse lasts almost two months, ironically, at the same time  four L.A. cops are being given a second trial for brutalizing a  single individual, sparking one of the ugliest riots in history.  Armored vehicles surround the house, already ringed with snipers  using scoped, high-powered rifles. Loudspeakers playing obnoxious  records at the highest possible volume, and searchlights, deprive  those in the house of sleep (in the aftermath, nobody in authority  will mention the effect this technique, originated by North Korean  Communists as a battle tactic, may have had on their judgment).   Finally -- another irony -- on the 50th anniversary of the rising  of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of the armor punches holes in the house  and gas of some kind is injected. The house bursts into flame and  is reduced to ashes in less than an hour. At least 80 lives,  including those of more than a dozen children, are snuffed out.   Spokesmen for the outlaw agencies, the Attorney General, and the  President all hold press conferences to articulate a common theme:  blame the victim.   He had illegal weapons -- as soon as they can be prepared in a  secret government workshop and planted among the cinders being  "examined" by the agency that created them. He was abusing children  -- the tapes will be stored with the data on the JFK assassination.  He set the fire -- our snipers saw him doing it. Film at 11 -- in  3000 A.D. He shot his followers who tried to escape -- or was that  Jim Jones? Best of all, he's dead -- he can't say a damn thing to  embarrass us, any more than when his contact with the world was  severed at the start of the whole travesty.   A leading national paper claims 93% of the American people believe  that a man who resisted a savage attack on his home is somehow  responsible for everything that resulted. But when did you ever  know 93% of Americans to agree on anything -- doesn't this sound  more like the outcome of a Soviet election than an opinion poll?   Very well, what can we infer from the above? For starters, never  forget that, although Democratic careers are on the line (and  rightfully so) over this fiasco, by the outlaw agency's admission,  it was planned and rehearsed by a Republican administration. Which  may explain why Paul Harvey, who evidently used up all his courage  and integrity changing his mind (at about the same time I did)  about the war in Viet Nam -- has been acting as little more than a  mouthpiece for a state that has no regard for the Bill of Rights.   More importantly, when Rush Limbaugh, who's been a quivering tower  of Jello during the whole thing, takes essentially the same stance  as Bill Clinton, it's time for fundamental changes, if not in the  system, then at least within yourself.   On March 5, back at the beginning, Mary Gingell, national chair of  the Libertarian Party, issued a press release condemning the outlaw  agency and calling for its abolition. In fact, the LP has promised  in its platform since 1977, for at least 16 years, to abolish both  agencies involved in Waco. I'm proud to say I was there and helped  to write that plank.   True, the LP is tiny and insignificant (although less so than in  1977 -- ask the Democrats in Georgia if you doubt it). But, alone  in a howling wilderness of fascists scrambling now to cover their  behinds with phony polls and Big Lies, the LP is right about what  happened in Waco. And if their advice had been followed in 1977,  Waco never would have happened.   Think about it. And think about the fact that, if you've had enough  of political parties more interested in collecting and holding  power -- at whatever cost to the Bill of Rights, let alone human  life -- than in defending and expanding individual liberty, maybe  the change it's time for within yourself is to make the LP less  tiny and insignificant by a single voice and a single vote.  Think about it.  L. Neil Smith Author: THE PROBABILITY BROACH, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE, HENRY MARTYN,  and (forthcoming) PALLAS Editor: LEVER ACTION BBS (303) 493-6674, FIDOnet: 1:306/31.4 Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus NRA Life Member