Ruby Ridge And Siege
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The Ruby Ridge Massacre [ & Siege ] began on 21 August 1992. The president was George H. W. Bush. The FBI murdered a boy, Randy Weaver's son and lost one attacker. Mrs. Weaver was murdered later by Lon Horiuchi, a thug who was never charged and is still walking the streets as a free man. But see FBI Murderer, Lon Horiuchi Gets A  Pass. He probably has a government issue alias. They failed to murder Randy Weaver or Kevin Harris; they put them in prison instead.
PS They did another murderous action replay at Rainbow Farm in Michigan but there was not much publicity round that one.
PPS Correction: I was wrong Horiuchi is still out there marketing murder machines in America.
PPPS Now, in 2018 the Deep State has proved its vicious nature again using the Bundy Standoff.

H-S Precision Puts Women And Children First
Horiuchi, the man who murdered Randy Weaver's wife as she stood with her baby in her arms recommends H-S Precision products, its rifles. It is rather like Rudolf Höß, the commandant of Auschwitz praising Zyklon B for its effectiveness.

 

Ruby Ridge ex Wiki
Ruby Ridge was the site of a deadly confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992 between Randy Weaver, his family, his friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The events resulted in the death of Weaver's son Sammy, his wife Vicki, and their dog (Striker) as well as Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan.

At the subsequent federal criminal trial of Weaver and Harris, Weaver's attorney Gerry Spence made accusations of "criminal wrongdoing" against every agency involved in the incident: the FBI, the USMS, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) [ BATF ] aka Jackbooted Government Thugs and the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for Idaho. At the completion of the trial, the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility formed a Ruby Ridge Task Force to investigate Spence's charges. The 1994 task force report was released in redacted form by Lexis Counsel Connect, an information service for attorneys. It raised questions about the conduct and policy of all the agencies.

The Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 Waco siege, involving many of the same agencies and even the same personnel, caused public outcry and fueled the widening of the militia movement. The incident was similar in some ways to the 1985 MOVE conflagration, in which police dropped bombs on a West Philadelphia house. To answer public questions about Ruby Ridge, the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information held a total of 14 days of hearings between September 6 and October 19, 1995, and subsequently issued a report calling for reforms in federal law enforcement to prevent a repeat of Ruby Ridge and to restore public confidence in federal law enforcement. Likewise, it became a motive, along with the Waco siege, of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

 

FBI Murderer, Lon Horiuchi Gets A  Pass
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A week after a sharply divided federal appeals court ruled that an F.B.I. sharpshooter could stand trial in a 1992 shooting in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the county prosecutor there announced today that he would not proceed with manslaughter charges against the agent.

''It is unlikely the state will be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the criminal act set forth,'' the Boundary County Prosecutor, Brett Benson, said today in a news release issued by his office.

The 11-day siege in August 1992 ended with the deaths of three people: William Degan, a deputy United States marshal; Vicki Weaver, the wife of Randy Weaver, a white supremacist whom federal officials were seeking to arrest on weapons charges; and Samuel Weaver, the couple's 14-year-old son. Along with the Branch Davidian siege [ the Waco Massacre ]a year later, the Ruby Ridge case has been held up by antigovernment groups as an example of the excessive use of force by the federal government.

On June 5, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled, 6 to 5, that the sharpshooter, Lon Horiuchi, could be tried on state manslaughter charges.

That decision was viewed as a major setback for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Today's announcement by Mr. Benson, while not necessarily quelling the furor over the Ruby Ridge incident, does mean it is unlikely to be revisited in the courtroom soon.

''The Ruby Ridge incident was a tragedy that deeply affected and divided many of the citizens of this county and country,'' Mr. Benson said. ''It is our hope that this decision will begin the healing process that is so long overdue.''

In 1995, the federal government paid Mr. Weaver and his three surviving children $3.1 million in a civil lawsuit stemming from the incident.

Charges of involuntary manslaughter against Mr. Horiuchi had been filed by Mr. Benson's predecessor, Denise Woodbury, but she lost to Mr. Benson in last year's election. Mr. Benson said he would file a motion on Friday to dismiss the case.

Nonetheless, Stephen Yagman, a special prosecutor who had been appointed by Ms. Woodbury to handle the case, said he objected to the decision and hoped that charges might be brought in the future if the county elects yet another prosecutor.

''Were there to be a different prosecutor in Boundary County, the charge, or more severe charges such as second-degree murder, could be refiled,'' Mr. Yagman, who is a lawyer in Los Angeles, told The Associated Press. ''I could not disagree more with this decision than I do.''

Mr. Horiuchi's lawyer, Adam Hoffinger, was out of the country and not available for comment, an aide in his office said this evening. Mr. Weaver, who now lives in Jefferson, Iowa, did not respond to a message left on his answering machine.

Federal courts twice previously dismissed charges filed against Mr. Horiuchi in the shooting. Last week's ruling had cleared the way for a state trial to proceed, although it also would have required a federal judge to find that there was enough evidence to suggest that Mr. Horiuchi had acted unlawfully.
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You might feel that this is blatant Misconduct In Public Office or Selective non-Prosecution. Perhaps the right charge would be Perverting The Course Of Justice.

 

Rainbow Farm ex Wiki
Rainbow Farm was a pro-marijuana campground in Newberg Township, Cass County, Michigan, that was involved in a fatal police standoff on September 3, 2001. The campground was run by Tom Crosslin and his life partner Rolland "Rollie" Rohm, and was home to two annual festivals, "HempAid" and "Roach Roast", which ran from 1996 through 2001. The operation ended with the burning down of all the structures on the property and the deaths of both Tom Crosslin and Rolland Rohm.

Background
Beginning in 1996, the two annual Rainbow Farm events, "HempAid" (on Memorial Day) and "Roach Roast" (on Labor Day), were part Woodstock, part union picnic. They were family-oriented affairs, with Rohm's son, Robert, wheeling his golf cart among the soft-drink stands and hemp clothing vendors and representatives from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Guests included Tommy Chong of "Cheech and Chong" fame, High Times editor Steve Hager, Merle Haggard, members of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and John Sinclair, the White Panther Party jefe and MC5 manager who, in 1969, had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for marijuana possession. Most of these guests, unlike Crosslin or Rohm, could trace a lineage to radicalism of the 1960s, when they played to a more engaged audience. The legal loophole that Crosslin used to hold these gatherings without sparking mass arrests was that he, his employees and the concessionaires who paid to be a part of the festival sold absolutely no drugs.[1]

These events from 1996 through 2001 made Rainbow Farm the center of marijuana activism in Michigan. It was listed by High Times magazine as "fourteenth on the list of twenty-five Top Stoner Travel Spots in the world".[2]

Investigation and arrests
Rainbow Farm was the focus of an investigation by Cass County prosecutor Scott Teter. A Rainbow Farm festival was linked to the death of a Berrien County teenager killed April 21, 2001, after his car crashed into a school bus carrying Eau Claire High School students. After a few months of unsuccessfully trying to gather evidence using undercover police officers, the investigation eventually came to a head in early May 2001, when Michigan State Police troopers served a tax-fraud warrant and found more than 200 marijuana plants.

Tom and Rollie were arrested on felony manufacture and weapons charges, and Rollie's son, Robert, was taken into foster care. Crosslin was charged with felony possession of a firearm, growing marijuana and maintaining a drug house. He faced 20 years in prison and was out of jail on a $150,000 bail bond, as the state was moving to seize Rainbow Farm under civil asset forfeiture proceedings. During this time Crosslin publicly violated his bail agreement by announcing that he would throw another festival.

In August 2001, Crosslin and Rohm failed to appear at their appointed court date, and set fire to a building on their property.

Throughout Labor Day weekend, according to law enforcement accounts, Crosslin and Rohm systematically burned down the ten structures on their farm, shot at and hit a news helicopter filming the fires, shot at and missed a police surveillance plane, and sprayed the woods bordering the 34-acre (140,000 m2) property with gunfire to keep police at bay. Crosslin and Rohm also began procuring assault rifles and claiming that the farm had been mined and booby-trapped.

September 2001
The standoff began when deputies went to the farm after neighbors said Crosslin was burning buildings on his property. Believing they were outgunned, the local authorities called in the FBI. The state police and FBI agents surrounded Crosslin's house on August 31; with snipers in the woods watching the house.

Crosslin and Rohm fired several times at the police, striking an armored vehicle. They also fired on and struck the rear stabilizer of a local news helicopter containing two civilians.[3]

On September 3, Crosslin walked into the woods on his farm, and while walking back he spotted an FBI agent lying on the ground. Crosslin raised his rifle[4] and was shot in the forehead and died instantly. The autopsy report said Crosslin was shot five times in the head, and three times in the torso.

That morning, at 3:45 a.m., Rohm asked that his son be brought to see him and told police that if he was, he would surrender at 7 a.m..[5] Shortly after 6 a.m., a fire was reported at the Rainbow Farm residence. While walking outside the house Rohm was shot dead by another police marksman.

A third man, Brandon J. Peoples, suffered minor injuries when Crosslin was shot and was questioned by authorities.