Excuse me, he violated a whole series of weapons law, shot at the law enforcement officers coming to serve him a warrant and continues to resist arrest. The neo-nazi was no innocent and the FBI just didn't pick hi s name out of a hat.. He broke a series of laws, resisted lawful arrest and shot at law enforcement officers. He deserved what he got.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "they should have stormed the place sooner and shot quicker. That neo-nazi > gun runner deserved what he got." > > And the rule of law be damned! Some citizens should not have the rights > that other citizens have. > > The government can do what it wants, when it wants. Right Larry? > > From wiki: > > Both the internal 1994 Ruby Ridge Task Force Report and the public 1995 > Senate subcommittee report on Ruby Ridge criticized the rules of engagement > as unconstitutional. A 1995 GAO report on use of force by federal law > enforcement agencies stated: "In October 1995, Treasury and Justice adopted > use of deadly force policies to standardize the various policies their > component agencies had adopted over the years." The major change was the > requirement of a reasonable belief of an "imminent" danger of death or > serious physical injury, which brought all federal LEA deadly force policies > in line with US Supreme Court rulings (Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 18 > (1985) and Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989)) that applied to state and > local LE agencies. > > Timothy McVeigh cited the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents as motivation for > the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995. > > The surviving members of the Weaver family filed a wrongful death suit. To > avoid trial and a possibly higher settlement, the federal government awarded > Randy Weaver a $100,000 settlement and his three daughters $1 million each > in August 1995. In the out-of-court settlement the government did not admit > to any wrong-doing in the deaths of Sammy and Vicki Weaver. > > FBI director Louis Freeh disciplined or proposed discipline for twelve FBI > employees over their handling of the incident and the later prosecution of > Randy Weaver and Harris. He described it before the U.S. Senate hearing > investigating the incident as "synonymous with the exaggerated application > of federal law enforcement" and stated "law enforcement overreacted at Ruby > Ridge." > > FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi was indicted for manslaughter in 1997 by > the Boundary County, Idaho prosecutor just prior to expiration of the > statute of limitations for the crime of manslaughter, but the trial was > removed to federal court and was quickly dismissed on grounds of sovereign > immunity. > > Kevin Harris was also indicted for the first-degree murder of DUSM Bill > Degan; the charge was dismissed on grounds ofdouble jeopardy because he had > been acquitted in the federal criminal trial on the same charge in 1993. > > The attorney for Kevin Harris pressed Harris' civil suit for damages, > although federal officials vowed they would never pay someone who had killed > a U.S. Marshal. In September 2000 after persistent appeals, Harris was > awarded a $380,000 settlement from the government. > > > J > > - > > Good fences make good neighbors. - Robert Frost > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331330 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
