I have met Randy Weaver, and I live in Idaho and know exactly what happened up there based omn his accounts, talking with people in that direct area, and talking with his original lawyer.
Randy Weaver did no wrong. The BATF decided that he and his would be good candidates to try and infiltrate the Aryan Nation filth. Randy Weaver served his country honorably and had they come to him straight up and asked, my guess is he would have served again. But that's not what they did. Instead, they sent an agent in under cover to befriend him for several years who then tried to entrap Weaver and coerse him into infiltrating that group.
Weaver told him no and then they determined to make an example out of him. They intentionally sent him a misdated summons and then issued a warrant when he did not show up. They then inserted, again, under cover, officer on his property to surveil he and his family. At some point they decided to act and provoke he and his family because they knew that they always came out when the dog barked.
So, they agitated the dog from cover and when Weaver, his 14 year old son, Sammy, and a friend came out to see what the ruckus was about, one of the officers popped up from behind cover and shot the dog right in front of the 14 year old. Did not announce who he was and then turned his weapon on the kid.
Weaver, who was on the other side of the Ridge yelled for everyone to get back to the house (he never discharged his weapon). The son was shot in the back as he retreated up the hill. In the fire, one of the officers was killed as well and it was later ascertained that he was killed by his own in a friendly fire incident. At that point the marshalls retreated down the hill and called in a lot more help, the full weight of the Federal government against a small family who only wanted to live alone in peace (they had a forced evacuation of all families living within 20 miles of the Weaver cabin), and Weaver and his friend went to the cabin where Weaver found out about his son.
That night Weaver retreived the body of his son and was going out the next morning to spend time with his son's body when he was shot, unannounced by a sniper, Lon Horiuchi. As Weaver, wounded, retreated to the house, Horiuchi fired again, striking Vicki Weaver in the throat as she held a six month old baby in her arms and held the door open for her husband.
Again, Weaver never fired a shot.
So spare me all the talk about how it was Weaver's fault and how he sent his kid out front and center to do battle while (based on your insinuations) Weaver somehow held back. As I said from the get go, it is unadulterated BS and the only question is whether you are spreading it out of ignorance, or knowingly.
I can't read your heart and mind, so I do not know and will let the Man upstairs do that judging...but the truth of the matter is that what you are saying is just plain wrong and bears no resemblance to what happened up there.
That's why Weaver and his friend were found innocent of all murder and death charges and he was only convicted on the original entrapement when the undercover agent aasked him to saw off the end of a shotgun he was buying from Weaver and showed him where to do it.
BTW, Weaver's son and wife were cremnted on the hill top by the Feds when it was all over and Weaver was taken into custody. NO forensic evidence left to study there...all the more reason the jury found as it did...niot only in the crimnal charges by the government, but later in the civil suite as well.
As to threats on your life...and as to "my buds", I do not know what you are talking about. I have not read the entire thread, just responded to your initial post and now to this. There are several hundred thousand people signed up on FreeRepublic from all over the country and the world. I have been here a long time, but know a relative handful of people personally...so, you ought to cut that line of BS as well...it seems like you are stretching all the more with such accusations.