American Experience - RUBY RIDGE

[EspressoBuzz]

American Experience

WNETDT - 13 Tue, 2/14, 9:00 PM 1 hr

"Ruby Ridge"

New, 2/14/2017, History, Documentary, Anthology

Eyewitness accounts, including those of white separatist Randy Weaver's daughter and several federal agents, reveal the story behind the FBI siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, which helped launch the modern militia movement.

[Rattler]

Randy Weaver won millions from the Federal government after this incident occurred and is now a wealthy man.  

BTW, labeling him a "White Separatist" is a smear.  He was a gunsmith that did work on firearms for those people.  He was not one of them.  He was falsely accused of cutting a shotgun barrel to an illegal length in order for the feds to use it as leverage to get him to infiltrate and inform on, those people.  When he refused, he was attacked by the feds.

This is exactly the type of government activity that caused people to believe one cannot trust the government.  The militia was always the citizen's arm of American defense, until it became obvious the US Government could be as big a threat to citizen's freedom as any outside force we could ever encounter.

I'd be interested in seeing if this "documentary" shows the truth about what happened, or tries to turn it into an anti militia propaganda piece.

 

[EspressoBuzz]

The documentary explained just that and more. Even his daughter says mistakes were made on both sides.

[Rattler]

I found it, for anyone who wants to see it.

http://www.guns.com/2017/02/15/pbs-american-experience-ruby-ridge-video/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=58a56d9704d30166be1b0f2d&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

They also claim he illegally sawed off a shotgun by cutting the barrel less than 18".  In fact, he refused to do that, and told the under cover agent it was illegal and he wouldn't do it.  He cut them to the minimum legal length.  When the UA brought the legal length shotgun barrels to the Feds, they simply sawed them off to an illegal length and had the UA swear Weaver did it.  At that point, the Feds became the criminals and they had no concern about taking it to the level of murder, because they could do it and get away with it.

The thing I find interesting is how the Feds in the video act like they didn't know what they had done and it was all a mistake.  That lost all credibility when, just a few years later, a similar situation played out at Waco, TX.  Seems the only difference was, no survivors were left to tell their side of the story in Waco.

Edited February 16, 2017 by Rattler