And when it comes time, you people are going to be brought to punishment,” Jones says, thrusting a finger towards the reporter. “A revolution of peaceful information is coming. The reporter nods, smirking, as Jones lays into him. “You’ve got a big problem, buddy.”Īs Jones gets closer to the man in front of the camera-a reporter for CBS-the lower-third of the screen offers a helpful, if misleading, title for the journalist: “FBI AGENT.” Jones marches up to them and starts getting into it: “I’m sick and tired of hearing your lies, when you machine-gunned a bunch of men, women, and children,” he’s screaming. The camera pans over to another film crew. The shaky camera cuts to Jones making a beeline across the field, with more wreckage in the background. Jones, who was until recently a marginal and out-of-work radio host in Austin, was visiting the former site of the compound, just outside of Waco, Texas to shoot a documentary for his fledgling online media network.įrom behind black sunglasses, he nods to the industrial carnage: “They always destroy the evidence and don’t let locals in to document anything. The Branch Davidians, led by their prophet David Koresh, swore they would not be taken alive, and they lived up to the promise: 82 members of the sect died during the standoff and ensuing raid. Inside were 100 members of the Branch Davidian cult. Seven years earlier, on the exact spot where Jones is ranting to camera, federal agents moved in on the Mount Carmel Center. This is “monument to the wreckage of the police state,” he tells the camera. There’s one piece jutting out, to eye-level with his squat frame. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyĪlex Jones is standing next to a heap of concrete slabs.
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