I can't find the quote, but Col. Jeff Cooper periodically takes note that Lon Horiuchi remains alive and at large.
He has a lot to say on the subject..
The Federal agent who shot Vicki Weaver in the face, deliberately, while she was unarmed and holding her child is named Lon Horiuchi. Remember that name. He is still walking around loose. That man must eventually pay for his crime, here or hereafter. Lon Horiuchi.
So now it appears that Horiuchi will walk free. The opinion of the judge was that he was "only following instructions." Several German generals were condemned to death at the Nuremburg Trials for advancing just that argument. Lon Horiuchi was either seriously incompetent in the handling of his weapon, in which case the FBI is to blame for putting him on that job; or he was callously indifferent to the deliberate taking of human life, in which case he is guilty of negligent homicide. This is, of course, assuming that what has appeared in the press is reasonably in accordance with the facts. (It may be that a great deal of material was presented at the trial which is not clear to the general public.) So here we have, in reasonably close succession, O.J. Simpson and Lon Horiuchi, reflections of a justice system which is catastrophically askew. It must be admitted in fairness that Simpson's act was committed with malice, whereas there is no evidence that Horiuchi entertained any particular hatred for Vicki Weaver. But both men walk free. The ancient Greeks had an answer to that. Its name was nemesis.
We note with some annoyance that the usually sound columnist, Joseph Sobran, has come out sympathizing for Lon Horiuchi on the grounds that Horiuchi shot Vicky Weaver "by mistake." Horiuchi says he did, Rogers says he did, Freeh says he did, Janet Reno says he did, and now Joe Sobran says he did. Let us get it straight. The only way Horiuchi could have shot Vicky Weaver by mistake would have been a circumstance in which she was standing behind an obscuring device, such as a sheet of plywood, or for that matter a bed sheet. Unless Horiuchi was an utter fool and totally incompetent with his weapon, and firing at random at the house, he could not have shot Vicky Weaver by mistake. How all those people could give credence to such a story is absolutely beyond belief!
Senator Larry Craig has taken cudgel and addressed the Attorney General a specific and public letter questioning the need for official American stormtroops. I do not see how she can avoid answering this. It will be very interesting to see what she says.
As of right now, there is a rumor to the effect that federal marshals may arrest Lon Horiuchi and deliver him to the State of Idaho. Perhaps this is only a rumor, but it certainly is a good one.
(If I keep writing this sort of thing, I guess I can expect the ninja any quiet morning about 0300.)
To the best of my knowledge and belief, Lon Horiuchi, the man who shot Vickie Weaver in the face with a
sniper rifle while she was holding her baby in her arms, is still walking around loose. If I am wrong in this
assumption, please let me know.
When one raises the issue of the free status of Lon Horiuchi, the murderer of Vickie Weaver, the surprisingly
common answer is, "Nothing can be done to him because he is a federal agent!" So now, in their own eyes,
federal agents are above the law. Several periodicals have pointed out recently that we are on our way to a
police state. From this point it appears we have already arrived.
Freshly back from Africa and from our stay in the meat locker, we discover that Janet Reno is still on the
payroll, and Lon Horiuchi is still wandering around loose. Someone should have taken care of that in our
absence.
We learn that the federal assassin Lon Horiuchi is now being afforded personal security by the state. Perhaps
the need for this man to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life is in some measure adequate punishment
This from an FBI agent who must obviously remain anonymous:
"I wasn't surprised when I heard that Horiuchi had killed Mrs. Weaver. We were in the same
class at Quantico. The man was a robot. He would do anything to please his superiors."
Well, Horiuchi is still at large. One wonders how much he pleased his superiors.
In our concentration on Lon Horiuchi, the man who shot Vicky Weaver in the face while she was holding her
baby, we must not forget that he was not the only one involved. One Richard Rogers, of the FBI hostage
rescue organization, is the man who set the rules of engagement both at the Randy Weaver ranch and at Waco.
As far as I can determine, he is the man who gave the orders that Horiuchi carried out. Richard Rogers − this
is a name to bear in mind.
For the FBI to investigate Horiuchi is somewhat like Hitler's investigating Himmler.
But no matter what Reno and Freeh and Rogers and Horiuchi may say, that case is not closed. Whether
Horiuchi committed a procedural error at Ruby Ridge is not important. What he committed was a mortal
and that sin will find him out. The only appropriate demise for this man now would seem to be the traditional
route of sepukku, with which he should be familiar. If he needs a proper knife I have one, which I will provide
to him upon request.
There are people who do not mind the fact that O.J. Simpson walks free. There are people who do not mind
the fact that Lon Horiuchi is not only not punished for his atrocity at Ruby Ridge, but he continues on the
public payroll. There are those who know who killed Vince Foster, but are not bothered by the fact that the
subject has been dropped officially. I mind those things. Do you?
In keeping track of special agent Lon Horiuchi, we note that the television people are understandably reluctant
to show his face. After killing Vicki Weaver with one round to the face up at Ruby Ridge, he was put in
charge of a sniper team which went on down to Waco. Just what a sniper team might be good for in that
action is not clear, but Horiuchi has maintained that his team never fired a shot at that time. Recently released
television coverage of that action shows four empty cartridge cases on the ground at the sniper post occupied
by Horiuchi and his team. Apparently, someone else came in after the battle and dropped the four empties at
the spot where Horiuchi was located. If he says no shots were fired, I guess no shots were fired. After all,
Agent Horiuchi is a West Point graduate, and we can trust him implicitly.
We now learn that a series of courts has fully absolved Lon Horiuchi of the murder of Vicki Weaver, on the
grounds that he was "only doing his job." A number of German war criminals offered that argument at the
Nürnberg trials, but they were hanged anyway.
So now Horiuchi walks free under no legal cloud. One wonders how carefully he watches his back.
It is a long time now since Lon Horiuchi shot Vicky Weaver in the face while she was holding her child in her arms, but that is something most people would like to forget. Horiuchi still walks free with that on his conscience. The law cannot reach him, but there are many who do not forget.
Constitutional Traitor and Commissioner of the NOPD Edward Compass resigns.
He's been ducking and weaving ever since the S HTF in NOLA.
My bet is that he's hoping we'll forget all about him.
I think not. I think his name will be remembered, right alongside Lon Horiuchi.
Worse, even.
Despite the best efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we now
have access to a photograph of Lon Horiuchi, who shot Vickie Weaver in the
face but who still has not been brought to justice. Col. Bob Brown ran it
down in a West Point yearbook and it appears on page 38 of the December
issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine. It is not very clear, and it is
twenty years old, but it is better than nothing.
Despite the venerable injunction, you can get away with murder. Consider O.J. Simpson. Consider Lon
Horiuchi. And consider those experts who did away with Vince Foster. Of course it may be that those last did
not get away with it, having been taken care of Mafia style by those in charge. But in that case those in charge
are presumably walking free − and probably in pretty high places in both Arkansas and Washington.
There are people in positions of importance today who know how Vince Foster was murdered, and who did it,
but apparently we have decided to drop that subject. And then, of course, there is Lon Horiuchi. I suppose he
has squared the matter with his conscience, but I am darned if I know how.
The presumably authentic word we get in Washington is that Horiuchi will walk free, but that the BATF is being stalked and may be torpedoed. Well, as we have mentioned before, the murderer of Nicole Simpson and the murderer of Vince Foster are walking free. We should not expect too much of our current system of jurisprudence.
We have an interesting philosophical problem here. We know how the hunter uses a rifle (though he often uses it very poorly), but what exactly does a policeman need with a rifle? The only scenario that comes to mind is that of hostage rescue, since the rifle is not a defensive weapon and the police should use it only to save the life of an innocent being held at gun point. The totally egregious use of the rifle by the law enforcement arm looms as that of Lon Horiuchi, who appears to have murdered Vicki Weaver in cold blood when he himself was in no danger, and who now walks free and draws his salary on the taxpayers.
