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Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down
Ambush at Ruby Ridge How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down Author:Alan W. Bock Ambush at Ruby Ridge chronicles the U.S. Marshals Service elaborate multi-million-dollar 18-month surveillance of Weaver, an Idaho backwoods resident known as a white separatist, indicted on a minor firearms charge many claim was a government act of hatred and blackmail. The resultant 11-day standoff in Weaver's small family cabin and the parami... more »litary attack that ensued are described through graphic and closely documented accounts from the details surrounding the initial siege to the shoot-to-kill orders given by FBI headquarters.« less
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This was a very eye opening account of a family who did not believe in equality, but kept mostly to themselves. I had not heard of this in the media, so when I began reading it I found it hard to identify with the family because of their ideals. It is impossible not to be outraged at what happened to them, it's a sad sad tale.
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Before the Waco incident, the cause celebre for those who feel U.S. federal law enforcement agencies have become worse outlaws than their quarries was the case of Randy Weaver, a white separatist (not supremacist) living with his family on Ruby Ridge in remote northern Idaho. According to Bock, after a government stooge baited Weaver into an illegal gun sale, U.S. marshals and the FBI laid siege to his home and shot his 14-year-old son and his wife to death. A marshal died, too, but at trial, the jury acquitted Weaver and family friend David Harris of murder. Meanwhile, defense attorneys had exposed a swamp of arrogant government misconduct. Bock stands squarely with Weaver's defense, but his report is no intemperate partisan rant. It is a thoroughgoing account of the siege, the events that shaped Weaver and led to his running afoul of the government, the government's and major news media's characterizations of the affair, the trial, and the uncertain aftermath of an appalling case of law enforcement overkill. Better, it is unputdownably engrossing. Ray Olson
