Engelman: ...Next speaker is an attorney, who is involved, in the, civil
case, co-, concerning the Branch Davidians here at Mt. Carmel. I'd like
to introduce James Brannon. James?
A little too tall for me! [laughter "Me too!"]
Not too long ago, I was asked to, ah, participate in a program down in Austin- ah, where the Branch Davidians were invited to appear, and, and part of the program was, was dedicated to them, and- all I did was bring with me, uh, a part of what has been filed, by the lawyers, in the civil case. It is the part that tells, the court, uh, what our position is. And when a position is taken in federal court, lawyers more or less certify, that this is what we believe to be the truth. Uh, and I read it, and, I've been asked to read it again today. It was filed on behalf of all the lawyers; there're different groups of lawyers, representing different people, and I think that probably all of them, are, are here today. Uh- but I want to just read this to you, and I'll read it fast, because it- if I don't, it gets too long. But this is what we have filed in federal court- I didn't write it, I'm, I hasten to add: I'm, I'm, I'm part of it, but I don't take th-, the, uh, credit for being the actual author of the actual words. But I signed on to it too. And this is in the civil case that we have brought against the government and different officials of the government, for the death of the, of the folks at- just over here, at Mt. Carmel.
So let me read it to you and, if it gets a little longish, then it's just the things that we felt we had to say, and this has been filed in federal court here in Waco, and that, it, it's part of the official papers of the court. It's called a statement of facts.
(reads brief)
This is what we are saying the facts will be, when we are able, to gather more evidence and to prove them. Thank you very much. [applause]
Engelman: The nice thing is that, everything he said was absolutely true, and that's exactly what happened here.
The government agents, learned their lessons real well. I think we can consider this, as, part of the ghettoes of Poland and, Germany- And the FBI agents, as those that, kept, those in the ghettoes, shut off. Then used their power to dehumanize, to, lie about, to the American people- and those that were inside, Mt. Carmel, as were in the ghettoes of Poland and Germany, weren't allowed to defend themselves. And, we see what the results were. The government learned their lessons well, from 1939 to 1945, didn't they. I'd like to thank, James Brannon for, for reading that, and I'm glad that that's now in the records...
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