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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

They charge him and a court date is set. (this is where my memory gets a little grey) I believe his court date was changed (moved up) and when he didn't find out he of course didn't show up.

Exactly correct. The BATF also lied to the Federal Marshals service telling them that Weaver was a suspected bank robber and had a violent past -- (he didn't).

The FBI got the big hit for Ruby Ridge, but it was the BATF lies that started it all and got a US Marshal, a 12 year old boy and a women killed. Ya, Weaver is a nut, but he was not a dangerous nut.

A couple of years later, the BATF did another grandstand publicity stunt at Waco that got a bunch more people killed.

IMHO, they should have been cleaned out top to bottom and replaced the gung-ho PR/glory hounds with some professional law enforcement personnel.

118 posted on 09/29/2006 1:54:21 PM PDT by Ditto

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119 posted on 09/29/2006 2:05:28 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)

To: Ditto; Travis McGee

There were a number of agendas going on at Ruby Ridge. The Gov't got off cheap at $3.1 million. But after Waco, BATF got the word and settled down to harassing geezers at their gun show tables.

Still, they are not to be trusted.

120 posted on 09/29/2006 2:09:23 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)

To: Ditto; Travis McGee

There were a number of agendas going on at Ruby Ridge. The Gov't got off cheap at $3.1 million. But after Waco, BATF got the word and settled down to harassing geezers at their gun show tables.

Still, they are not to be trusted.

121 posted on 09/29/2006 2:09:32 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)

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