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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Ruby Ridge ... The FBI --- License To Kill Ruby Ridge and the FBI License to Kill Guest Post by James Bovard Today is the 29th anniversary of FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi killing Vicki Weaver as she stood in the door of a cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, holding her baby. The FBI initially claimed that killing Mrs. Weaver was justified and then later covered up key details and claimed it was accidental. FBI chief Louis Freeh pretended his agents had done nothing seriously wrong. After an Idaho prosecutor indicted Horiuchi for manslaughter, the Clinton administration Justice Department swayed a federal court to dismiss the case based on the supremacy clause of the Constitution. But the Founding Fathers never intended for federal supremacy to nullify all of the Bill of Rights. Federal judge captured the soul of the case in a dissent that warned of the new James Bond 007 standard for the use of deadly force against American citizens. Kozinski summarized the case: A group of FBI agents formulated rules of engagement that permitted their colleagues to hide in the bushes and gun down men who posed no immediate threat. Such wartime rules are patently unconstitutional for a police action. Though the FBI insisted its agents had behaved impeccably, the feds paid a $3 million wrongful death settlement to the Weaver family. A top FBI official was sent to prison for destroying key evidence in the case. The FBI has become more powerful and more dangerous since Ruby Ridge. After 9/11, the FBI turbo-charged its entrapment operations, compensating for its profound failures to detect the 9/11 plotters by generating endless headlines of crimes that its own agents had helped spawn. In 2016, the FBI interfered in a presidential election. Special Counsel John Durham may soon file charges on the FBIs role in using false information to spur illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign. Just before the 2020 election, the FBI announced that it had thwarted a high-profile plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, but that court case is struggling badly after revelations that the FBI itself was at the heart of the scheme. After the January 6 Capitol Clash, FBI chief Christopher Wray jumped on the Biden administration bandwagon, labeling that ruckus as a domestic terrorism event. Across the nation, the FBI agents tracked down and interrogated anyone who was at that protest, and more than 500 people have been charged in federal court. The feds crackdown was spurred by presuming that trespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism. But last Friday, a news report revealed that FBI agents had concluded that the allegations against most of those protestors were wildly overblown. Ruby Ridge remains the key for understanding how the FBI is no longer leashed by the law. anon I Ruby Ridge remains the key for understanding how the FBI is no longer leashed by the law. Hardly a key for that. We were a police state long before that. The B#rg certainly used it to paint militias and 2A groups as radical white supremacist terrorists. That era was our last real opportunity to revolt and have something resembling a country left but the Faux-licans watched as we were systematically prosecuted and persecuted by Billarys goon squads with the unspoken but rock solid support of the Newt/Dole gangsters and comfy Republicrats. Poster Comment: yes we con hoax chains whiTe slavery Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread |
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