Revisiting Ruby Ridge
The Weaver Family wanted to be left alone. The U.S. Government said "Bang, Bang!"
The U.S.A.’s dissatisfaction interests me because it infected the world.
It probably began with the rebellion against the British, but took a while to become a form we recognise. It grew eyes in the Korean War, legs in Vietnam, personalities in celebrities and serial killers, and started running with Ruby Ridge (and then Waco).
Mainstream media (MSM) is a hypocrite because it reports what Government wants, yet sometimes makes decent documentaries years down the line. PBS is that ‘luminary’ today.
‘Ruby Ridge’ is a damn good way to learn a lesson and be entertained in 50 minutes.
What an outrage! When my wife and I were traveling across the country, we stopped in Bonner's Ferry. The road to get up the hill is called Ruby Creek Road. We talked to people who witnessed the massacre. BAD TASTE for government in Bonner's Ferry! For example, in Idaho, if you actually call the sheriff, THEY WILL NOT STEP FOOT ON YOUR PROPERTY unless you come to the line and give them permission! The wrongful death hearing that Randy won was in Bonner's Ferry.
This happened over an ATF scam! From:
https://ammo.com/articles/ruby-ridge-siege-forgotten-history-weaver-family-atf-standoff-militia
The ATF claims that in 1989, Faderley purchased two illegally shortened shotguns from Randy Weaver. However, Weaver disputes this, saying that the shotguns he sold Faderley were entirely legal and were shortened after the fact. The notes from the case show that Faderley purchased the guns and showed Weaver where to shorten them, which would constitute illegal entrapment. What’s more, the government preyed on the destitute nature of the Weavers, who lived in a small cabin in the woods with no electricity or running water.
In June 1990, Faderley’s cover was blown. It was then that the ATF reached out to Weaver, stating that they had evidence he was dealing illegal firearms. They told him they would drop all charges if he would agree to become their new informant regarding the investigation of the Aryan Nations groups in the area. Weaver refused.
To coerce him into changing his mind, the Feds staged a stunt where a broken down couple were at the side of the road. Weaver stopped to help them and was handcuffed, thrown face down in the snow and arrested. He had to post his home as bond. Still he refused to become a federal informant.
To coerce him into changing his mind, the Feds staged a stunt where a broken down couple were at the side of the road. Weaver stopped to help them and was handcuffed, thrown face down in the snow and arrested. He had to post his home as bond. Still he refused to become a federal informant.
The irony of the federal government’s desire to obtain informants within the Aryan Nations is that different branches of federal law enforcement and intelligence gathering occupied five of the six key positions in the organization. This means that the Aryan Nations were effectively a government-run shop, with agents spying on each other to ensure the integrity of an investigation – into an organization almost entirely run by the federal government.
That PBS documentary was /is an exaggeration and mischaracterisation on the events from my second hand sources some 30 years ago, although it does illustrate the excessive abuse of federal powers then and even more so today.