[YaYa123]

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!!"

(sorry bout that...I love movie quotes) Here's "the truth" as seen by the U.S. Government.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/Pre_96/August95/444.txt.html

"DAG
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1995

CIVIL SUITS SETTLED IN RUBY RIDGE CASE

The Department of Justice announced today that it has resolved all claims by the Randy Weaver family against the United States and its employees.

Under the settlement, each of the three children of Vicki Weaver will receive $1 million and her husband Randy will receive $100,000 to resolve $200 million in claims filed by the family after the deaths of Mrs. Weaver and her 14-year-old son, Samuel, at Ruby Ridge, Idaho in August, 1992.

The settlement reflects the loss to the Weaver children of their mother and brother. By entering into a settlement, the United States hopes to take a substantial step toward healing the wounds the incident inflicted.

Samuel Weaver was killed on August 21, 1992 in a firefight with U.S. Marshals that left Samuel and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan dead. Marshals were surveilling the property in preparation for serving an arrest warrant on Randy Weaver.

Mrs. Weaver was accidentally killed the next day when a bullet fired by an FBI agent struck her as she stood out of sight behind a cabin door.

The United States does not admit wrongdoing or legal liability to the plaintiffs. At the instance of the government, the settlement agreement explicitly provides that nothing in its language is intended to interfere with or reduce the availability of information or evidence in connection with the incident."

[Lurker]

Read "Every Knee Shall Bow". I don't have the author right away, but it's available from Amazon.

L

[Restorer]

I recommend Ambush at Ruby Ridge by Alan Bock. It's been a long time since I read it, but if I remember correctly the author has no ideological axe to grind and when he started his research was very unsympathetic to the "extremist" Weavers.

[NetValue]

The most factual article I read (as I recall) was in the Wall Street Journal.

[axxmann]

You're not going to find a dispassionate report on Ruby Ridge.
The reason is that it took several years after it happened for it to hit the news. It didn't make the press until after Randy Weaver was aquitted.
The mainstream media (that's almost all there was back then) didn't deem it "newsworthy"....yeah right, federal marshall, 14 year old kid, dog and woman holding a baby are all DEAD and that's not "newsworthy".
I grew up in Idaho so I knew a little about it. The earliest mention in the media (besides local reports and one snippet on CNN) was in the NRA's magazine called Rifleman.

[oldvike]

Badabump! I saw that show too. They show was sympathetic to the Weavers (as it should have been) and made the US Marshals and the FBI out to be the unrestrained murderers that they were.

[exmarine]

Try researching the Idaho newspapers (e.g. Boise). You won't find an unbiased account in the mainstream liberal press. Try finding the transcripts of the Randy Weaver Trial.

[SUSSA]

Try this for a start. Ruby Ridge

[Poohbah]

Someone else mention Alan Bock's book Ambush at Ruby Ridge--it's an excellent account.

[Saundra Duffy]

I watched that last night and was struck by the federal officials (two guys) who actually shed tears over the debacle; they felt so bad. I had also never been aware of the anger and outrage expressed by the Ruby Ridge neighbors - especially the WOMEN! They went ballistic when they learned of the Weaver boy's death (shot in the back) and the mother's head being blown off. The Weaver daughter (who was 16 at the time of the tragedy) was very articulate and she cried as she remembered her last conversation with her brother and she cried when discussing her mother's death. I found the documentary very enlightening. What a nightmare for Randy Weaver!! They received a settlement but no amount of money can make up for that disgraceful federal disaster.

[backhoe]

OK.....

Return to Ruby Ridge-- SNAFU? Or Summary Execution?

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Fed Marshalls conduct million dollar investigation because an Idaho man was suspected of selling a sawed off shotgun. They wind up killing his dog, his son and literally blowing his wife's head off while she was holding a baby.

[oldvike]

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[djf]

Try this. Department of Justice Ruby Ridge Report .

Took me lots of hours to take the text file and convert it to hotmetal!

[mn_b_one]

Read the Alan Bock book. I have read many books on this, and if I had to read just one, this would be it.