[cripplecreek]

Weaver was of no danger to anyone till he was surrounded and cornered. The original crime that he was eventually convicted of brought him less than a year in jail.

If they wanted to arrest him that badly they could have simply waited till he went to town and done it then.

[taxed2death]

"If they wanted to arrest him that badly they could have simply waited till he went to town and done it then."

agree 100%.

Mismanagement at the top by Rambo types always leads to this same scenario.

[Kevmo]

If they wanted to arrest him that badly they could have simply waited till he went to town and done it then.
***Same thing with David Koresh, and that 92-year old lady who died in a no-knock drug warrant in Atlanta recently. The adrenaline cowboys have taken over policy.

[ScubieNuc]

The original crime that he was eventually convicted of brought him less than a year in jail.

His original crime, as I remember it, was buying modified guns, (shotguns I think) with shortened barrels from FBI agents. They set him up, because they could find nothing else on him, and they wanted information on the Arian Nation.

When he tried to settle the gun thing, the government stalled because they wanted him to spy for them on his Arian Nation neighbors. He refused, so they applied delaying tactics. He made the long drive to many court appearences only to be told "Oops, can't do it today. Maybe next week." He finally said Screw this, and didn't appear.

Now that just pissed off the agents trying to get him to spy for them more irate. A new warrent was issued for his arrest. They tried to snag him on a back road, feigning engine troubles, but failed. He felt penned in, and just hunkered down.

Then comes the FBI assasins squad, and the rest is history. I'm not saying that he made all the right moves, but the majority of the blame goes onto the governments shoulders. The scarey thing is that these kinds of people still exist in these agencies, and under a different administration, we WILL see this kind of thing again.

Sincerely