[bkepley]

Didn't you watch the hearings? It cost American citizens years of abuse, threats, and just the type of ridicule you've expressed before real hearings were held by the Congress.

Yes and I thought Weaver did an excellent job. Someone else made a reference to his "low IQ" but I doubt that.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I was referring to reply #6; i.e., where it appeared to me that you agreed that "Randy Weaver shoulders full responsibility" and your "blaze of glory" comment.

As I recall from the long-resisted hearings it was pretty well accepted that Weaver had been set up by an informant to cut too much off a sawed-off shotgun.

His boy had been shot dead and his body still lay in the dirt. He and his family were surrounded. At the time I don't think that Weaver knew that a U.S. Marshal was killed but he knew for sure that the feds were likely surrounding the cabin.

I don't recall the timing but I believe that both he and his visitor had been wounded -- what glory? He was trying to think of some way to keep what was left of him, his family and his friend alive. IMO.