The Constitutional Conservatives By Daniel John Sobieski 6/4/2021
No, that is not David Chipman standing in the ruins of the burnt-out Waco compound, site of the 1993 slaughter of members of the Branch Davidian religious group led by David Koresh. He was too busy back at the office helping to manufacture and disseminating lies about what went on at the compound to justify a brutal, murderous, and unnecessary assault.
The animus he exhibited in his tenure at ATF towards gun owners and gun rights, to the point of using violence as a gun-control tactic, reflects a view he holds today and shares with the likes of Biden “gun czar” Beto O’Rourke, and includes gun confiscation by armed agents of legally purchased guns ownd by law-abiding citizens. His definition of assauly rifle is so broad as to include virtually all rifles owned by lawful gun owners.
He is no fan of rge Second Amendment which was put in the Bill of Rights to protect the other nine, put there by Founding Fathers as an ultimate bulwark against tyrants and tyranny. It was written to protect individual gun ownership because the British were coming, noy because deer were in season. It was written to prevent such tyranny as David Chipman envisions,
The Branch Davidians could be described as an earlier verion of Obama’s despised “bitter clingers”, clinging to their guns and their interpretation of the Bible but basically just wanting to be left alone. You might call their compound an early “autonomous zone” set up by the genuinely violent and dangerous Antifa and BLM protesters that ;ooted, burned, and killed at will while law enforcement pursued the law-abiding gun owners of America. As it was the Branch Davidions could have been dealt with non-violently. Chipman felt otherwise, making up false horror stories to justify a violent assault.
As Tiana Lowe notes in the Washington Examiner:
Chipman
was indeed a case agent in the Waco siege of the Branch Davidian compound. The incident was a massacre of civil liberties and the rule of law, in addition to the 82 lives it ended unnecessarily. Rather than bring up credible sexual assault charges against cult leader David Koresh, who could easily have been arrested during his jogs around the compound and jaunts into town, the ATF staged a militarized and performative military action against American citizens.
The Waco stunt, endorsed by the Clinton administration as a part of its crackdown against the Second Amendment, also found a quiet defender in then-Sen. Biden. Even after evidence emerged that the ATF had whipped up baseless charges about a meth lab in order to secure helicopters and charge firearms violations, Biden proved a partisan,
opposing oversight hearings that were certain to damage the Clinton administration.
Chipman was a serial liar in pushing for and justifying the massacre by ATE at Waco. An example of his ;ies that fanned the flames of Waco, no pun intended,
was provided by the New York Post:
The gun-control advocate, who once worked as a case agent in the Branch Davidian trial, answered questions on Reddit as part of an “Ask Me Anything” forum in September 2019.
During that forum, he falsely claimed, without noting his time as a case agent for the trial, that Branch Davidian sect members had shot down two helicopters during the Waco Massacre.
“At Waco, cult members used 2 .50 caliber Barretts to shoot down two Texas Air National Guard helicopters,” he wrote in an answer, “It is true we are fortunate they are not used in crime more often.
While it is largely understood that Branch Davidian members shot at the helicopters, the vessels themselves did not go down.
Most notably, no Barretts were recovered at the scene of the massacre.
“Although all of the three helicopters sustained damage from weapons fire, none of the National Guard crews or ATF aboard were injured,” a 1996 House report conducted in tandem by the Oversight and Judiciary Committees found.
More:
https://www.theconstitutionalconservatives.com/editorials/atf-nominee-and-waco-special-agent-david-chipman-lied-in-pushing-?xg_source=twitter
