Ruby Ridge, Waco....
I realize this will tick off the members of the Church of Saint Randy Weaver, but there is no comparison between an attempt at apprehending a defiant crook that goes bad and a gov't that chooses to murder or starve more than a million of its own citizens. Waco was in part self-inflicted suicide, so also not comparable.
Not much different than when Democrats try and defend one of their lawmakers facing 30 felony counts by finding a Republican with a speeding ticket from 20 years ago and screaming, "See, both sides have had trouble with the law."
Isolated incidents do not add up to a general policy of terror. That's the same mistake the MSM and 'Rats make when they take isolated incidents like Abu Gharib and try to paint us as no better than Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Don't get me wrong -- I had no use whatsoever for Bubba and Janet and Donna and the rest of that sorry crew, but people that compared them to dictatorial regimes were just over the top and painted as wingnuts. We're better than that!