Comments | sarahansani: p-raise it

sarahansani

p-raise it

Oct 09, 2008 11:35

All the hype with Obama makes me think of the hype over Hitler...the reich singing for Der Furher.

And this makes me think that if Obama is elected, another Randy Weaver (remember during the Clinton administration?) incident may ensue. Of course, there wasn't much hype about that incident because the media tried their absolute best to keep it under ( Read more... )

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sarahansani October 9 2008, 16:20:32 UTC

Yeah, and I'm too lazy to fix the embedded YouTubes.

bourgeoishippy October 23 2008, 01:13:20 UTC

Regarding Randy Weaver -- at the time it happened it received an awful lot of publicity, but unfortunately a lot of people simply bought into the gov't account of the episode. Latch on to a copy of Gerry Spence's (Weaver's defense attorney) book From Freedom to Slavery and read the chapter on Weaver.

Gerry Spence got him acquitted on all the serious charges (only a bogus charge of failure to appear was left standing), and ultimately Randy Weaver & his kids won a large settlement from the gov't.

One other little problem: Your time-line is off. The siege at Ruby Ridge occurred in 1992 during Bush I. It was, however, Clinton's DOJ under Janet Reno that bungled the prosecution & was sanctioned for fabricating evidence.

WACO, on the other hand, was a 100% a Clinton/Reno debacle. :(

Mike