Needs2know: have you read this thread at all?
Randy Weaver was a White Seperatist, not a White Supremacist. He did not believe in the superiority of the white race, which is why he had reservations about the Aryan Nation. He was a religious fundamentalist, in a sort of Old Testament Biblical Patriarch kind of way. His wife agreed with him. They raised their children up that way.
He and his wife agreed to move to Caribou Ridge, Idaho. They believed that the various races were not yet meant to live amongst one another. If he had gone around blowing up minority’s homes, or trying to destroy minority communities, he would then be truly reprehensible.
Instead, he and his wife sold their house and property, moved to the wild hinterlands of Idaho, cut down timber and built a home in the woods, to raise his family up the way he and his wife wanted to, in their religious fashion.
Odd, but mostly harmless.
He didn’t put a gun to their heads and march them into the woods to live and die; neither he or his wife actively sought to defy or violently confront the federal government.
Are you seriously trying to say that living your life your way, peacefully and not bothering or harming other people, is a crime worthy of death!?
That failure to appear, most likely due to a clerical error, is automatic grounds for termination?
Did you skip over the part about the gov’t agents opening fire first?
Have you read the 1st Amendment? The Bill of Rights?
You come across as exactly the kind of person who seriously dislikes “The Man”, and distrusts the Federal Gov’t.
Yet you applaud the death of a 14 year old boy and his mother, as receiving their “just deserts”, because they wanted nothing to do with racial integration, or American Society as a whole, due to their religious beliefs.
Shit. No wonder the pilgrims left the old world.
Generally Speaking
As one of the resident gun nuts, Horiuchi’s story is unadulteratred horseshit. The only way it makes any kind of sense is a “kill them all, for God shall recognize his own” rule of engagement. They were out for blood to avenge Deputy Marshall Degan. He, as well as Vicky and Sammy, are truly the innocent victims of one great fuckup. His family have my condolences and sympath as well.
I no longer trust the F.B.I., as an institution. Fool that I am, I still have some faith in individual human beings, so the majority of individual agents are probably good, decent people. A few bad apples, and some institutional failings, are ruining our premier federal law enforcement agency. Maybe beyond the ability to recover their good name, and the trust and confidence of the American public.
