Ruby Ridge

by on August 25, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The Ruby Ridge standoff truly began when the US Marshals took over a grand jury indictment on March 14 to arrest Randy Weaver for not showing up for a trial over illegal firearms charges solicited by an ATF informer on February 20, when his court-appointed lawyer told him the trial was on March 20. Weaver was reluctant to trust anyone from the government by then. A seven-month period of negotiations between the Marshals and Weaver to get him to surrender did not work. The US attorney in charge of the case told the Marshals to stop negotiating in October and demanded that negotiations go through the court-appointed lawyer. The media got wind of the standoff, and sent a helicopter to fly over Ruby Ridge in April, 1992. Reports said that Weaver fired on it. Weaver and the helicopter pilot denied the reports, but the US attorney charged Weaver with firing on the helicopter as part of an Overt Act in what he called the Weavers’ Conspiracy Against the Federal Government.

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Ruby Ridge

by on August 24, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The Ruby Ridge troubles hit a legal level when Randy Weaver made sawed-off shotguns for an ATF informant. The informant solicited him to do so, and Weaver cut the shotguns to the legal limit before giving them to the informant. The informant demanded they be shortened further, which Weaver did. The ATF arrested him for making those weapons in January 1991. The ATF told Weaver the court date was on February 19 and sent him home on bail. The court changed the date to February 20, but did not tell Weaver. The court appointed lawyer told Weaver the court date was changed to March 20, and that Weaver would lose his land if he lost the case, leaving his family homeless. The judge signed a bench warrant on Weaver when he did not show up for trial on the February 20. That was escalated to a grand jury indictment for not showing up in court on March 14, 6 days before his lawyer told Weaver he was supposed to go to trial. And so started the next stage of the troubles at Ruby Ridge.

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Ruby Ridge

by on August 23, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Right now, 30 years ago, the FBI, ATF, and US Marshals were involved in a standoff at Ruby Ridge. Randy Weaver bought land on Ruby Ridge in Idaho in 1983 to get away from it all. A neighbor disputed a land deal between them in 1984, lost in court, and soon began telling the FBI and Secret Service that Randy Weaver wanted to kill the Pope, the President, and the Idaho governor. That started an FBI and ATF investigation that resulted in an ATF informant soliciting Weaver to make two sawed-off shotguns for him in 1989. The ATF tried to blackmail Weaver into being an ATF informant after that, but he declined the invitation. So the ATF said he was a bank robber (he wasn’t) and got a grand jury to charge him for making and possessing illegal weapons. ATF agents posed as broken-down motorists in January 1991 and arrested Weaver when he got out to help them, so they could inform him of the charges against him. And that was just the beginning of the Ruby Ridge affair.

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The Fourth Amendment

by on August 22, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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Dawn

by on August 21, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Dawn DeMarco found many rich and noble traitors to Earth just by looking at balance sheets or a financial reports over the years. She had a gut instinct better than any cyber I’ve ever known when it came to digging up financial skullduggery, and she never stopped hunting once she was on the scent. Dawn spent hours every day just pulling records of military contractors and looking to see if she could see any indications of fraud. Then she would dress up and go to a ball or party at night to maintain her cover as a socialite who went to all the best of each, before coming back the next morning to search through more financial records. And she pulled in her posse of misfits to help her scan records. None were as good as her, but she taught them and their cybers what to look for and turned them into probably the best team of forensic accountants in known space. They literally weaponized math to catch traitors, and that is awesome on every level.

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