Army veteran Randy Weaver believed
the world had become corrupt and dangerous, so he chose to be a
survivalist. In 1983, Weaver built a cabin in the remote Ruby Ridge area
of northern Idaho and lived there with his wife Vicky, daughters Sara
and Elisheba, son Samuel, and family friend Kevin Harris.
This brought in the FBI, which deployed some 400 heavily armed agents, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers against a single family. The rules of engagement allowed deadly force against any family member seen with a firearm, but in effect it was an order of shoot on sight.
“On August 21, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
One day later, Vicki Weaver was holding infant daughter Elisheba in the cabin doorway when FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot the unarmed mother in the face, killing her instantly. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.federal marshals shot my son Samuel in the back and killed him. He was running home to me. His last words were, ‘I’m coming, Dad.’ They shot his little arm almost off and they killed him by shooting him in the back with a 9-millimeter submachine gun. The gun had a silencer on it. He was not wanted for any crime. He did not commit any crime. The marshals killed his dog right at his feet. He only tried to defend himself and his dog.
Sammy was just 14 years old. He did not yet weigh 80 pounds. He was not yet 5 feet tall. The marshals who killed Sammy were grown men. They were in combat gear. They had their faces painted with camouflage. They were wearing full camouflage suits with black ninja-type hoods. They were carrying machine guns and large caliber semi automatic pistols. They were trained to kill. Two of them were hiding behind trees and rocks in the woods where they could not be seen. The third was around a bend in the trail in thick forest. They were under direct orders from Washington to do nothing to injure the children. They were to have no contact or confrontation with me or my family. They killed him anyway in violation of their orders.
“On August 22, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
"completely without warning of any kind, an FBI sniper shot and killed my wife Vicki. He was using a .308 caliber sniper rifle with a specially weighted barrel and 10-power scope. He was using match grade ammunition. He had years of training to kill. I heard him testify at the trial that he wanted to kill. He shot my wife in the head and killed her. She was not wanted for any crime. There were no warrants for her arrest. At the time she was gunned down, she was helpless. She was standing in the doorway of her home. She was holding the door open for me and Sara and for Kevin Harris. She was holding Elisheba, our 10-month-old baby girl, in her arms. As the bullet crashed through her head, she slumped to her knees, holding Elisheba so she would not drop her. We took the baby from her as she lay dead and bleeding on our kitchen floor."
Louis Freeh, the Clinton pick for FBI boss, expressed “regret and sorrow for Mrs. Weaver’s death,” which was “tragic but accidental.” For Freeh, a former federal judge, the sniper’s second shot was “constitutional.”
Attorney General William Barr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi,
whose kill-shot on Vicki Weaver was “constitutional,” and also an
“accident” and one of the many “mistakes” that could have been avoided
but weren’t.
In early 2020, Fox News produced a documentary on the Ruby Ridge standoff. As the film shows, establishment media branded the Weaver family “white separatists.” Since the 2020 election, those less than worshipful of Joe Biden are branded “white supremacists.” In practice, as the late Angelo Codevilla explained, that means “anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him.”
The Biden junta also brands his
political opposition as violent extremists and “domestic terrorists,” a
smear applied to parents who protest the racist indoctrination of their
children. FBI boss Christopher Wray, who strenuously denied any FBI spying on Trump, is down with all of it, and so is Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Some two months after the Ruby Ridge milestone come the midterms. Should the same massive irregularities of 2020 accompany those elections, embattled Americans might launch major pushback. And 2024 is just down the road.
“If the next presidential election is curated by the usual suspects, Soros, Zuckerberg, and the Democratic National Committee,” Roger Kimball explains, a few million people might begin “acting like Black Lives Matter during the summer of 2020.” As Kimball wonders, “what then?” Ruby Ridge provides a few clues.Randy Weaver, the man labeled a
“white separatist” by the FBI, died on May 11. He was 74, but his
testimony stands the test of time. Against a single family, including
children, the FBI deployed helicopters, armored vehicles, hundreds of
agents in full combat gear, and trained military snipers like Lon
Horiuchi. That sniper shot and killed Vicki Weaver, who was unarmed, and
neither accused nor guilty of any crime. For embattled Americans in
2022, it would be a mistake to regard this assault as a one-off.
For Codevilla, “the countless, nearly
identical pronouncements from on high in recent days can be taken as an
announcement that the ruling class has raised them into its forceful
mainstream.”
In the United States of America, with
all due respect to Sigourney Weaver and Mel Gibson, every year is the
year of living dangerously.
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Hollywood Party and other books including Bill of Writes and Barack ‘em Up: A Literary Investigation. His journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Spectator (London) and many other publications. Billingsley serves as a policy fellow with the Independent Institute.
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/05/ruby-ridge-remembered/