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abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Ruby Ridge was a shootout between a family of paranoid religious whackjobs and the feds after they cocked up handing a guy a warrant, which eventually got taken by what today would be called “Magats” as a rallying cry.

Bonus army saw 17,000 vets, 26,000 supporters against the US Army and their tanks.
Kent State was a load of unarmed college kids against The Ohio National Guard.
Blair Mountain was 10,000 coal minters against The Police, Army, and a Pinkerton Company.

They call make Ruby Ridge look like a bar squabble.

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HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s crazy that you believe that government propaganda from then, but rightfully distrust the government now.

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- abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  lemmy.ml is over there.
  
  I literally got information from Wikipedia. The wife believed that the end of the world was nigh. Now I will admit, even back then, you didn’t need to believe the end of the world was nigh to not trust the government. But let’s be frank, ruby ridge was not on the same level as the bonus army, or the battle of Blair mountain, or Kent state.
  
  If you think I shoot out between a conspiratorial family who believed at the end of the world was nigh and group of incompetent cops is equivalent to the battle of Blair mountain, then frankly, I think it’s you that’s fallen for the propaganda.
  
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  - HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I am not saying it’s worse, I’m saying it was still a collosal government fuck up that resulted in the deaths of an entire family.
    
    Are you trying to tell me that it was ok simply because they believed in a sky daddy???
    
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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Semester3383@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah, no. The religious nutter part is utterly irrelevant.

What IS relevant is that the ATF entrapped the dude; they wanted him as an informant, so they spent a long time cajoling and threatening him into cutting a shotgun down for them (“short barrel shotgun”, a National Firearms Act of '34 violation), and when he did, they immediately fucked his life. He ended up getting arresting him, he bonded out, and then got multiple differing dates for a court hearing. He didn’t trust the courts because he thought the gov’t was out to get him (spoiler: they were), and so skipped court. The judge issued a warrant improperly, and then the US Marshalls showed up, and everything went downhill.

It was a very, very clear case of entrapment, and what the gov’t did was inexcusable. It doesn’t matter that they wanted him to spy on the Aryan Nations, what they did to try and bend him to their will was evil.

Don’t minimize that shit.

The gov’t can, and will, crush every single person that they can get away with crushing.

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