* Original to Kay Shapero @ 1:102/524 in furrydom
 * Forwarded Wed May 03 1995  07:43:19 by Kay Shapero @ 1:102/524

### On <04-28-95  08:33>, Kay Shapero had this to say
### to All about "(2/2) in re whackos":

fr> At the start of the show, when it was announced that Linda
fr> Thompson would be  on the line at 3:00 p.m., I managed to get
fr> into the queue of callers with the hopes that I could expose the
fr> hoax Thompson and/or friends manufactured called, "Waco: The Big
fr> Lie."

    This woman was also on the Ken Hamblin show on Tuesday (?... might
have been Wednesday) talking about this.  Apparantly they've done
another tape called "The Big Lie Continues"...  Hamblin, who has a
_serious_ burr under his saddle when it comes to the Branch Davidian
incident, pretty much gave her free rein.

fr> I had hoped that I could point to the Soldier of Fortune Magazine
fr> which compared the satelite downlinked video against the video
fr> tape Thompson and/or her friends are (still) selling.  Soldier of
fr> Fortune Magazine found that the Thompson tape was edited to show
fr> a flame thrower mounted on a tank.

    She claims that Soldier of Fortune is a propaganda arm of the
government, who have carefully manufactured their image so as to
_appear_ (to the uninitiated) to be a friend of the citizen militias
while publishing disinformation about them.  "How better to spread
lies about the opposition than to make people think you're one of
them" (or words to that effect), is what she said in response to that
question.  She also insists that their tape is _not_ a hoax. Her
support for this claim?  Because (according to her) all of the dubbing
was done on analog tape, and she claims that one cannot alter moving
images off of analog recordings.

    Not only is her claim of "analog-only" editing nearly impossible
to prove, but I can only assume this woman hasn't seen TERMINATOR 2 or
read _anything_ about computers in a long time...  For about $10,000 I
could go down to Computer City right now and purchase a computer and
some software that would be _quite_ capable of digitizing a
several-minute video sequence, allowing you to alter it frame-by-frame
in any number of ways, then dumping it back out to videotape with no
sign that such had been done.  (Actually, the base system could
probably be had for a lot less - indeed, the system I have _now_ could
probably do most of it with the addition of a $300 video-capture card
and a few good pieces of software - but I'm assuming the need for a
few high-ticket items - such as a high-speed, multi-gigabyte hard
drive so there would be enough storage space to digitize several
minutes of video at 24-bit color depth and 30 frames/second.  Come to
think of it, a Video Toaster-equipped Amiga with a sufficiently large
hard drive could probably pull it off, and would _definitely_ be under
$10,000.)  In fact, one could even fake the "generation loss" of
one or more analog dubs if it were considered necessary to do so.

fr> In actual fact, the original satelite downlink video shows a
fr> section of wall falling; that section of the tape was edited by
fr> unknown people and turned into "Waco: The Big Lie" by adding a
fr> voice-over.  In fact, Soldier of Fortune was selling the original
fr> tape, according to many sources, in direct response to the hoax
fr> tape.

    She claims _theirs_ is the digitally-edited "hoax" tape.
(Offering no proof of this, of course.)


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