Highway Through 'Hallowed' Ground - Texas Highway Project Threatens a Cluster of Branch Davidians in Waco | |
mopar28m (OP) User ID: 292831 United States 09/03/2007 11:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Highway Through 'Hallowed' Ground - Texas Highway Project Threatens a Cluster of Branch Davidians in Waco cont - Fending off a Super Highway Pace's latest cause may just attract some anti-government types to Mount Carmel. The state of Texas is considering building a north-south superhighway through the Waco area, part of a massive statewide project known as the Trans-Texas Corridor. One county map, drawn up merely for "guesstimating costs," the county insists, shows the highway going straight through Mount Carmel. "I'm getting very militant," said Pace. "Because I want to vindicate these people's names -- I don't want them to be forgotten and paved over. They want to put a road through here and just destroy this whole place, basically pave it over. I think that would be a sacrilege." Will he fight the highway project? "Yes, we're going to fight it," he said. "They'll have to carry my cold body off this place. Or bury me here with the rest of them." Tough, provocative words from a man occupying the site of one more violent chapters in American history. But Pace said he's not talking about taking up arms. The state of Texas says that while Mount Carmel lies within a large swath of land being studied for the project, no decisions have been made about the actual route. The building of the highway, if it ever happens, would be many years away. 'I'm Waiting for Them to Come Back' In the meantime, Pace continues his lonely ministry, raising his family in a beautiful, if haunted place, fixated on keeping its memory alive. The few Davidians who survived the siege of 1993 seem not to want much to do with him. They tend to believe that Koresh was a messiah figure who would one day return, and they view Pace as a nonbeliever. One exception is Ophelia Santoyo, who escaped the compound before losing her daughter and five grandchildren in the fire, and who lives at Mount Carmel with the Pace family. Santoyo still believes David Koresh was "the Lamb of God" but seems unconcerned about Pace's views. She says it simply brings her comfort to live at the spot where her loved ones died, including Koresh. "I'm waiting for them to come back," she said. "I'm waiting to be able to see them again." vaccinefreehealth blogspot com The risk far outweighs any benefit as the risk will vary from child to child. facebook.com/graphixyourway |
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mopar28m (OP) User ID: 292831 United States 09/04/2007 12:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Highway Through 'Hallowed' Ground - Texas Highway Project Threatens a Cluster of Branch Davidians in Waco We could once again see a seige at Waco. How many more innocent lives are going to be lost? vaccinefreehealth blogspot com The risk far outweighs any benefit as the risk will vary from child to child. facebook.com/graphixyourway |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 207220 United States 09/04/2007 01:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Highway Through 'Hallowed' Ground - Texas Highway Project Threatens a Cluster of Branch Davidians in Waco There are some Iowa farmers that could teach the BD's a thing or three about delaying Inetrstate Hwy development, but in the end, they, too, lost out to TPTB. No doubt, something about "emminent domain". Same thing goes on all the time with pipe line & power grid right-of-way issues. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 293221 Netherlands 09/04/2007 12:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Highway Through 'Hallowed' Ground - Texas Highway Project Threatens a Cluster of Branch Davidians in Waco That's what Lloyd Bentson did while he was senator. And got richer. . |