RUSH BLAMES RENO FOR RUBY RIDGE --
This morning on The Rush Limbaugh radio show, Rush blamed Janet Reno for Elian, Waco and Ruby Ridge. A lot of conservatives are blaming Reno for Ruby Ridge. This is no accident and it is coming from the top down.
George Herbert Walker Bush was president when the siege of Ruby Ridge began. It is in the best interest of all Republicans to forget this and blame Janet Reno for Ruby Ridge.
If you really want to know the truth -- you have to know the truth about Republicans, conservatives, Democrats, liberals and everything else. .. communists and Christians included! No group can be or should be exempted from the truth.
Now -- let's get the time line right ---
What year did Ruby Ridge happen? -- 1992
Who was president in 1992? -- George H. W. Bush -- father of George W. Bush
When did Janet Reno become Attorney General? -- 1993 after the Siege of Waco BEGAN --
Do you even know what went on at Ruby Ridge? Did you take the time to find out the real story? Or did you just believe what the media and Hollywood told you?
Here is a small excerpt from someone who lived through Ruby Ridge. This is taken from Maynard Campbell's book: "Assault at Ruby Creek -- The Idaho Massacre" (Campbell was jailed shortly after the publication of this book, and was murdered in our Federal Gulag. His story is told in "The AmeriKan Gulag," available from Rumor Mill News)
-- "Cowering on the floor of her dark cabin with a rifle and a Bible, Sara Weaver was ready to die. For days, her mother's body, covered by a blanket, lay in a pool of blood in the kitchen. Her brother was also dead; her father was wounded; and she was sure her friend Kevin Harris was slowly bleeding to death. Her ten month old baby sister wanted to be breast fed and was crying "Mama" as Federal agents lit the cabin with floodlights and tried to coax the family to the door.
"I was praying that if they were going to kill us, they'd take us all at once, because I couldn't stand to see any more of my family hurt." said Sara Weaver, 16, "I couldn't watch them pick us off one at a time. I was praying that they would just firebomb us."
Fortunately, Michael S. Vollmer has taken the time to put the facts down on paper. I will defer to his webpage for the rest of your education on the timeline and the events that took place at Ruby Ridge --
Remember -- Ruby Ridge -- which became the precedent for Waco -- occurred under a Republican Administration. If Republicans are outraged at what happened to Elian -- then you need to know what your party did to a family in Idaho.
If you think Elian won't be scarred by what happened at Miami, you should ask Sara Weaver and her sister if they still have nightmares.
Ruby Ridge Updates -- What's Happening & What Can We Do?
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From Michael's webpage --
Perhaps you won't feel as passionate as I about this issue. Perhaps you feel that that Randy Weaver was a racist copkiller who got what he deserved. In either case, I'd recommend you start first with some of the background material that others have written. Then, I'm sure, you'll share my passion.
"Don't call Randy Weaver paranoid. His worst fears about the government have already come true." Jonathan Karl
"It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Voltaire
Is Janet Reno To Blame for Ruby Ridge?
By now anyone with access to a TV has seen yesterday morning's appalling images of federal INS agents trashing a Miami home ("smash & grab seizure") to "rescue" 6-year old Elian Gonzales.
Just as Randy Weaver likely would have surrendered if the local sheriff had knocked on his door and David Koresh could have been picked as he was out jogging, federal agents could have patiently waited for a more opportune moment to effect a far less dramatic (not to mention traumatic) transfer.
Ruby Ridge, 1992
Waco, 1993
Miami, 2000
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But to return to the question at the top of this box.
As the events in Miami have unfolded ---snip -- a number of talking heads in the media have blamed Janet Reno for "Ruby Ridge, Waco and now Miami".
In fact, Ruby Ridge occurred a year before Janet "Barbecue" Reno took over at the Justice Dept. By the time she was appointed, the government's case against Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris was already unraveling in a Boise courtroom, resulting in the acquittal of Kevin Harris on all charges and of Randy Weaver on all charges except failure to appear.
Janet Reno could have done little with regard to Ruby Ridge except to abort the Federal government's pathetic prosecution; she does, however, bear full responsibility for the Justice Department's obfuscation and failure to account and compensate for its actions and to hold its hired killers responsible for for the slayings of Vicki and Sammy Weaver. Eight years later, one civil case and one criminal case are still bogged down in the Federal court system.
Update as of 4/22/2000
Fourteen months later, not much has changed:
Idaho's appeal of the dismissal of the criminal case against Lon Horiuchi is still pending. Court filings in the criminal case can be viewed at:
http://www.id.uscourts.gov/wconnect/wc.dll?usdc_racer~get_case_jb~3:97-cr-97~~All+Documents~on~PUID=NOBILL
Harris vs. Roderick et al. is still scheduled for trial on 8/7/2000. A flurry of motions has recently been filed by both sides seeking summary judgements. A few claims have been dismissed, and all claims against a few minor defendants have been dismissed.
Late last year, some defendants filed a motion to depose a prison inmate under seal citing as a reason for the secrecy the fact that documents filed in this case are available on the internet. That's YOU, gentle reader, that they're afraid of! You can read the documents yourself at
http://www.id.uscourts.gov/wconnect/wc.dll?usdc_racer~get_case_jb~1:94-cv-359~~All+Documents~on~PUID=NOBILL
Randy Weaver remarried & moved from Montana back to Iowa a few months ago.
Randy & Sara Weaver's book The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words is available from amazon.com.
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