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The House of Mirrors

When President Clinton was in the middle of the Waco standoff with David Koresh, he had an unsettling dream. In it, he entered a house of mirrors. In the first room was a beautiful woman. She was wearing a feminine and decent dress. She had the longest dark hair and deepest eyes, little makeup, a nice full nose and pair of lips, and her complexion was dark, through not Negroid. She was standing in the middle of a room encircled with mirrors, yet in each of the mirrors President Clinton saw his own reflection, not that of the woman. He suddenly turned to see David Koresh at his side, who said to him, "Go on into the next room."

President Clinton, in this dream, walked into the next room, and saw there a man half wolf. His face was pulled into a snout, he had four legs and no arms, which were covered in human skin but very hairy; and as he watched, the wolf-man’s tail grew, until it was full. The wolf-man’s tail, upon his seeing the President, shot between his back legs, and he started to whimper and whine. Again, the wolf-man was surrounded by mirrors, but all the President could see in them was his own reflection. David Koresh, who hadn’t left his side, told him he should go on into the next room.

When President Clinton got into the next room, he found a man studious at work at a desk. The man had a long gray beard, and was reading a book through glasses. When he saw the President he merely glanced at him and then went back to his reading. As in all the other rooms, the President only saw his own reflection in the mirrors.

He passed on with David Koresh into what he knew was the last room. In the last room there was a harsh disciplinarian, someone of authority. He was beating a little child with a horsewhip. The child was crying out, and was probably only seven or eight years old. The President grew very disturbed as he watched the disciplinarian dressed all in black beating the child on his backside with the whip. He looked to the mirrors, and again he only saw his own face and body.

In this dream, David Koresh took him by the hand and led him back into the room with the wolf-man. He took the wolf-man on a leash into the first room in the house of mirrors, the one with the beautiful woman. When the wolf-man saw her his naked penis grew erect, and he immediately began clamoring about her. She tried to escape, but the wolf-man pinned her to the floor with his paws, drew her underpants down with his teeth, and proceeded to rape her. The President looked to David Koresh, deeply disturbed, and saw that the man was laughing.

Suddenly he found himself in the room with the disciplinarian dressed in black, who was old and bearded, very stern. The disciplinarian this time was beating the student, the old student who had done nothing put his nose in his book. David Koresh was there as well, laughing hysterically. It was then that the President awoke.

That day, he made a call to Janet Reno, and told her to burn the Branch Davidian compound to the ground. He was very disturbed by his dream, and wanted to put an end to the David Koresh that had brought it on.

After the compound was burned, the President made a televised address to the nation to the effect that armed insurrection in the United States would not be tolerated, and any new insurrection could expect to be met with the same power he had shown at Waco. Then, after a late night of phone calls on other matters, the President went to sleep.

He had a dream that night as well. In the dream, he was wandering the streets of Washington, and people kept saying to him, "Who are you? Who are you?" He kept replying, "I am President Clinton," or, "I am Bill Clinton." But the people would say to him, "Stop lying," and, "Get out of here." Finally, he saw Al Gore standing next to him, who said to him, "Who are you?" The President replied, "Why, I’m the President, and you’re my Vice President." "Nonsense," said Al Gore, pointing to the house of mirrors from the President’s earlier dream, "the President is to be found in there."

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