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2019-11-25 -Land of the Free
The Guns of Ruby Ridge
[Guns America] In the summer of 1992, a violent confrontation between Randy Weaver and federal Law Enforcement agencies led to three needless deaths and an 11-day standoff.

The repercussions of this horrible event still resonate today. The very mention of Ruby Ridge still elicits powerful emotions.

In 1992 with a Republican in the White House, the full might of the US government was unleashed on an American citizen and his family. I’ll not debate the man’s politics or the righteousness of the investigation. What is indisputable, however, is that a 14-year-old boy, an unarmed mother holding an infant, and a US Marshal died violently in a miserably botched Law Enforcement operation.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-25 06:37|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 Hans shot first two. Like the FBI, Lukas has been trying to cover it up since.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-25 06:52||   2019-11-25 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Law Enforcement officials accused Weaver of creating two illegal short-barreled shotguns but offered to drop the charges if he would infiltrate nearby white supremacist organizations.

The recruitment of Carter Page may (or may not) have been a bit more subtle.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-25 07:02||   2019-11-25 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 I never got the full story until this article.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-25 08:47||   2019-11-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 My family lived a few miles from there. This whole thing stunk. BTW the FBI set contracts for the hotels and for food at restaurants. When it all went bad and the FBI left, mostly from fear of the locals, they did not pay a single bill, bilking small towns in Idaho. Second, after they shot the wife, residents put flowers at the mailbox. FBI agents took turns running over the mailbox and flowers. They entrapped a guys, blackmailed him, played by no real legal boundaries, and killed two innocent people. The FBI lost in court, but that does not bring back the dead. From Sandpoint to CDA this is not just an emotional event, this was what big government has become.
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-11-25 14:57||   2019-11-25 14:57|| Front Page Top

#5 And dems and rinos want to give the govt more unlimited facial recognition powers, like the ChiComs do?

The Feral Govt keeping up with the despots?

Surely you jest. When US Attorneys and their FBI lackeys never get repremanded, fired, or convicted of transgressions, there are two standards of justice in this country: for the deep state denizens and for the dirt people.

[and don't call me Shirley]
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-11-25 18:23||   2019-11-25 18:23|| Front Page Top

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