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Ruby Ridge...documentary films?
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Posted on 03/20/2007 5:48:06 PM PDT by Chasaway
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posted on
03/20/2007 5:48:07 PM PDT
by
Chasaway
To: Admin Moderator
I think I "oopsed" on this. It's supposed to just be a vanity post. If it needs to be moved, would you do so?
Thanks.
C
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posted on
03/20/2007 5:49:59 PM PDT
by
Chasaway
(Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.)
To: Chasaway
Waco: The Big Lie is fantastic.
Death and Taxes, which is about Gordon Kahl, has good info but is rambling and incoherent.
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posted on
03/20/2007 5:56:44 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Chasaway
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posted on
03/20/2007 6:03:33 PM PDT
by
labette
(To hit the ball and touch 'em all. A moment in the sun.)
To: Chasaway; amchugh
pinging myself to check back on this thread later.
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posted on
03/20/2007 6:10:11 PM PDT
by
amchugh
To: labette
Actually, yes. I was following that thread for most of its existence.
Admittedly, I was puzzled by many of the comments that seemed to take Weaver's oddities - whether religious or social - and make them license for an almost unbelievable (literally!) overreaction by law enforcement. I understand that he acted and talked WAY out the mainstream (as did the folks at Waco), and that he was so "rural" that folks in the big city might see him as dangerous, and that he was so far removed geographically that they might see "good riddance" as a real, "okay" response to what happened.
However, I don't agree. I don't share his beliefs and he could have made some different decisions. But he didn't shoot his son, his wife and his friend. To lay the blame on him solely, or even largely, is mistaken, IMHO.
Long answer to your short question, huh? Yes, I was following the thread the other day, and then I saw the show was on tonite. After watching it with my kids, I realized they might need a little more on the subject.
Thanks,
C
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posted on
03/20/2007 6:21:36 PM PDT
by
Chasaway
(Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.)
To: Chasaway
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posted on
03/20/2007 6:29:28 PM PDT
by
labette
(To hit the ball and touch 'em all. A moment in the sun.)
To: Chasaway
Randy Weaver said the government was out to get him so he moved his family into the woods, lowered his profile and they still found him. Guess he was right.
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posted on
03/20/2007 6:54:41 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Dig deeper, more ammo.)
To: Chasaway
Weaver wrote a book on teh subject that you should be able to track down.
Also, Unintended Consequences has an extensive factual account of the event, with a firearms perspective. (The whole book is excellent, but contains some lurid sections that are inappropriate for children.)
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posted on
03/20/2007 6:59:03 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: Beelzebubba
All of this started because of one quarter inch. Randy is alleged to have sold a sawed off shotgun to an undercover fed that had a barrel that was one fourth inch too short. For that one quarter inch they shot his teenage son in the back and his wife in the head.
I have heard and read how the sniper who shot Randy's wife was shooting at another target. I do not believe this was true. I think the shooter was a highly trained marksman and hit exactly what he was shooting at. For a person with this amount of training not to see what is behind his intended target is beyond any standard of credibility. It is hard to prove what anyone intended or didn't intend to do. All we have to go on is the word of the man who shot an unarmed woman in the head while she was holding her child in her arms breastfeeding. I think he would say anything to cover his butt.
To: Chasaway
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posted on
03/20/2007 7:40:09 PM PDT
by
TFFKAMM
To: Chasaway
You may also want to look into the past of the current Governor of Massachusetts, if you have not already.
To: oldenuff2no
Randy is alleged to have sold a sawed off shotgun to an undercover fed that had a barrel that was one fourth inch too short.Should point out that he was paid by the FBI to cut that 1/4 inch off.
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posted on
03/20/2007 8:46:52 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
Weaver was an idiot............and his wife didn't help the situation. That's my take.
It all could have been avoided. Don't blame anything on the Government. Weirdos in the woods need to be polite to Authorities, too.
To: org.whodat
Weaver blew it.
That's what happened.
To: Chasaway
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posted on
03/21/2007 3:59:36 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: backhoe
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posted on
03/21/2007 4:02:01 AM PDT
by
Chasaway
(Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.)
To: Chasaway
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posted on
03/21/2007 4:08:30 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin? his way across the WWW?)
To: TheBridge
Weirdos in the woods need to be polite to Authorities, too.
ya ... being rude to a leo is a death penalty offense.
I'm usually polite on this forum , but your a trolling idiot.
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posted on
03/21/2007 4:30:30 AM PDT
by
THEUPMAN
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