Posted on 05/12/2022 10:33:57 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
Edited on 05/12/2022 1:01:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
RANDY Weaver, the survivalist known for his role in the Ruby Ridge standoff with the FBI, has died at the age of 74.
His daughter Sara confirmed the news on Facebook on Thursday.
Weaver's wife Vicki and 14-year-old son Samuel were killed by an FBI sniper during an 11-day standoff in the mountains of Idaho in 1992.
The standoff began when the US Marshall Service tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear on a firearms charge.
Weaver had chosen not to surrender and remained inside his cabin on Ruby Ridge for a year and a half with his family.
When Marshalls showed up at the property, a shootout took place when Weaver, his son Samuel, and a friend Kevin Harris came out to check out the situation.
Samuel was shot by Marshalls, and Harris then shot dead Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan.
The following day, Weaver's wife, Vicki, was shot in the head by an FBI sniper while she held their 10-month-old daughter in her arms.
Weaver turned himself in 11 days later and was charged with killing Degan, but a jury acquitted him.
He ultimately served 16 months in jail for the original gun charge but following the horror that shook Ruby Ridge, where the family lived, stayed with Weaver until his dying day.
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Lon Horiuchi...witness protection program....name change.
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Yup,
I remember.
Bag Pipes!?!
Yeah, that sounded like BS to me.
That was my wake up call. I have seen nothing whatsoever to change my mind since then.
Yup. Barr should be on the same wall as Lon Hourichi. Evil bastards.
Words cannot describe. Even in a hot war zone, the intentional killing of an unarmed woman holding a small child would be considered a war crime. This was an act of murder, and no one was ever held accountable or brought to justice.
Yep, this is when we knew the FBI was a filthy, ugly, corrupt organization. Just as the meme says, Elon Musk was thinking about buying the FBI, but the Clinton’s aren’t selling.
“The standoff began when the US Marshall Service tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear on a firearms charge. “
Let’s get this straight. The federal prosecutor changed the date of the trial without bothering to inform Randy Weaver. That’s why he didn’t show up.
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HEROS. 💫
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It was murder sanctioned by the government. Janet Reno took “full responsibility” for Waco knowing that she would never actually be held responsible.
IIRC, at first Weaver refused to cut the shotgun barrel down and then after urging from the government informant/FBI agent, he agreed. It was entrapment from the get go.
I met him at a gunshow in Tennessee.
Sheesh. You’d think that at least these “journalists” would know the proper spelling for Marshal.
That’s what I remember, too.
It was meant to be an entrapment move.
Yeah, it’s BS
BINGO!!!!
You meant suppository writing class, didn’t you? Because that’s where he pulled his composition skills from.
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