I wish I could make my wife live in a separate shack during "that time of the month"
On a more serious note, what happened to Randy Weaver and his family, crazy or not, was state sanctioned murder, and it will doubtless happen again.
The guy was on a secluded ridge line, with his young family. How could the guy in charge come away with a dead unarmed mother, a man shot in his back who was not an immediate threat to anyone, and not face severe consequences for his actions. Contain and defuse, what would have been so difficult about that ? It is difficult, even during the most rational analysis of what happened, to conclude that there was not an open desire to kill the adults on that ridge, regardless of circumstance.
I think there is a fear in government that if you are hard on the actions of the police or federal authorities, then they may begin to lose their commitment to their work, suffer staffing problems, and generally fall apart. I have seen this attitude, especially in the courts in other countries, and I find it to be a very dangerous attitude for any system to adopt.
when they asked him to spy on the aryan brotherhood group that was located in the area he chose to live in. So these same agencies sent an agent who finally managed to get him to saw a few inches off the end of a shotgun. And things went downhill from there. The key here is to remember that even paraniods have real enemies - and in Weaver's case they proved that he did. :banghead:
