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This story tells the sad tail of the lack of justice in our justice system these days.
The federal police have a heavy hand and apparently can continue to use it
indiscriminately. This whole issue makes me sick, and don't forget old trigger finger
Horiuchi was at Waco too.
On Fri, 15 June 2001, Peat wrote:
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> <DIV><BR><A href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/dieteman/dieteman57.html";><FONT
> size=3>http://www.lewrockwell.com/dieteman/dieteman57.html</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
> size=3>June 16, 2001<BR><BR>Killing without Consequences<BR>by David
> Dieteman<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";><FONT
> size=3>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT size=3>Recently, the federal
> Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 6-5, that the<BR>state of Idaho could
> prosecute federal sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi for<BR>manslaughter in the killing
> of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge.<BR><BR>Horiuchi shot Mrs. Weaver through the head
> at 200 yards with a 30-06 sniper<BR>rifle. She had a baby in her
> arms.<BR><BR>After Mrs. Weaver was killed, federal agents taunted the surviving
> family<BR>members.<BR><BR>Federal agents, one must recall, were there to arrest
> Randy Weaver for what<BR>the Washington Post refers to as “relatively minor
> weapons charges.”<BR><BR>Indeed. Weaver was charged with sawing one-half of an
> inch off the length of<BR>a shotgun. At this point, one must question the
>Post’s
> choice of words:<BR>“relative” as compared to what? The “weapons
>charge” which
> ultimately led to<BR>the death of Vicki Weaver is objectively minor, unless the
> word “minor” is<BR>to lose part of its meaning. (And so we see how the
> mainstream media<BR>insidiously sanitizes the news, giving perhaps half of the
> truth).<BR><BR>Did I mention that Weaver sawed the hideously evil half-inch off
> the length<BR>of the shotgun at the request of a federal informant in the hire
> of the<BR>Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms?<BR><BR>Weaver, by the way,
> had failed to appear in court because he had been given<BR>the wrong date for
> his hearing.<BR><BR>That justifies killing? Apparently it does in the eyes of
> some people, who<BR>perhaps cannot imagine any human conduct which should not be
> subjected to<BR>state control. In other words, there are some people whose
> notion of liberty<BR>is being allowed to do what the government tells you to do
> – and if you<BR>disobey, you die.<BR><BR>And now the state of Idaho has decided
> that it will not exercise its right<BR>to prosecute Lon Horiuchi.<BR><BR>Killing
> without consequences.<BR><BR>Did some federal lackey threaten to take away
> Idaho’s highway funds? Is<BR>there a cushy federal agency job in
>somebody’s
> future? So far, no one is<BR>talking.<BR><BR>The Washington Times adds that
> Boundary County Prosecutor Brett<BR>Benson, in a brief statement issued
> yesterday by his office, said<BR>Agent Lon T. Horiuchi, a member of the FBI's
> hostage rescue team,<BR>would not be tried in an Idaho court for the Aug. 22,
> 1992, death of<BR>Mrs. Weaver. The statement gave no reason for the
> decision.<BR><BR>This is more than a bit odd. After the state expends no small
> sum of money<BR>to take the case to a federal Court of Appeals, they decide to
> drop the<BR>case.<BR><BR>Disturbingly, one of the five judges who would deny
> Idaho the right to<BR>prosecute the sniper for the killing, Judge Michael Daly
> Hawkins, called the<BR>ruling a “grave disservice” to federal law
>enforcement
> authorities “who knew<BR>until now that if they performed their duties within
> the bounds of reason<BR>and without malice they would be protected...and not
> subject to endless<BR>judicial second-guessing.”<BR><BR>What exactly is
>“within
> the bounds of reason” about shooting a woman with a<BR>baby in the head from
>200
> yards? Are we to believe that the government<BR>trained this sniper to kill from
> such a distance, and yet he could not tell,<BR>or did not have sufficient
> optical devices to discern, that his target was a<BR>woman with a
> baby?<BR><BR>The majority opinion from the Ninth Circuit found that the
>sniper’s
> shooting<BR>was “more akin to recklessness than reasonable doubt.” Do we
>want
> to<BR>encourage reckless behavior by men with sniper rifles? If they work for
> the<BR>government, apparently so.<BR><BR>As the Washington Times reports of the
> Ruby Ridge killing,<BR><BR>Acting under modified rules of engagement by FBI
> supervisors saying the<BR>sharpshooters “could and should” shoot any
>armed male,
> Mr. Horiuchi was<BR>attempting to hit Weaver friend Kevin Harris when he shot
> Mrs. Weaver, 42,<BR>as she stood behind a cabin door. The same bullet also
> struck Mr. Harris as<BR>he ran behind the door.<BR><BR>Ah, he couldn’t see what
> was behind the door – that is the excuse.<BR><BR>But of course, if any private
> citizen were to shoot at someone in<BR>self-defense, but hit someone else, you
> can be certain that private citizen<BR>would face prosecution. That is because
> his private killing is not<BR>“official.” In short, those who work for
>the
> government can kill – they can<BR>violate the government’s
>constitutional duty
> to safeguard the lives of the<BR>citizens – and face no consequences. Well,
>they
> might not get a promotion.<BR><BR>The point the minority judges miss is that the
> decision to kill – most<BR>certainly the decision to kill a woman holding a
> baby, even if she was<BR>killed because she was behind a door and not the
> intended target – must<BR>always and everywhere be subject to second
> guessing.<BR><BR>The alternative is to allow the government to create more men
> like Tim<BR>McVeigh – who was, of course, trained to kill by the government
>–
> who kill<BR>without remorse.<BR><BR>The state of Idaho owes the world an
> explanation. Since the Justice<BR>Department spent $3.1 million in tax dollars
> to settle one lawsuit stemming<BR>from Ruby Ridge in 1995, perhaps someone
> believed that justice had already<BR>been served.<BR><BR>But if that is the
> case, was the state of Idaho merely making a point by<BR>pursuing its appeal to
> the Ninth Circuit?<BR><BR>I doubt that very much.<BR><BR>To be blunt, something
> doesn’t smell right about this decision to let a<BR>killing go
> unpunished.<BR><BR>In that regard, the Washington Post reports that the newly
> elected<BR>prosecutor who decided to drop the case, Brett Benson, “is
> being<BR>investigated by the Idaho Attorney General’s office at the request of
> the<BR>Boundary County Board of Commissioners because of allegations that
> he<BR>falsified two notarized documents.”<BR><BR>Benson won his job by
>defeating
> the old prosecutor, Denise Woodbury, last<BR>November. And surprise, surprise,
> it is the defeated Woodbury who appointed<BR>the special prosecutor, Stephen
> Yagman, to handle the case against the<BR>sniper.<BR><BR>Yagman, the special
> prosecutor, called the decision to drop the case<BR>“unjustified and done in a
> sneaky way.”<BR><BR>Who backed the Benson campaign? Was the decision to drop
>the
> case his alone<BR>to make?<BR><BR>The plot thickens.<BR><BR>Mr. Dieteman is an
> attorney in Erie, Pennsylvania, and a PhD candidate in<BR>philosophy at The
> Catholic University of America.<BR><BR>� 2001 David Dieteman</FONT><BR><FONT
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