Oh now NPR is a credible source. (snort)
Did Mr. Weaver do some stupid things? Absolutely. Does the government bear a large share of the blame for the deaths of all those involved? Abso-freakin-lutely.
Do Randy Weaver's actions justify the actions of the government? Let's say he didn't pay his taxes? How much did he owe? Seriously. Let's say he did saw off that shotgun (at the government agent's request)? What's the penalty for that? What should have been a commensurate reponse? Obviously shooting his kid and his wife is the correct answer.
For some reason, you have an inability to assign any blame to a government who deserves plenty in this situation.
NPR is a whore to the government just like some posters on this thread. But the higher ups at NPR are slow and sometimes news from the field, like an interview with members of Weaver's defense team, gets on air uncensored.
Similarly just after the 1994 elction results came in NPR reported that a large number of blacks had defected to the GOP (true). That story was replaced hours later by the "angry white man" myth. So it goes.