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Well. After the FBI found the murderer Lon Horiuchi's actions to be completely unconstitutional in shooting and killing Vicki Weaver as she stood holding her infant son...after a Federal appeals court found that Lon Horiuchi could be tried for manslaughter for shooting and killing Vicki Weaver as she stood holding her infant son...Idaho prosecutor drops the case against him.
"Based upon the entirety of the circumstances surrounding this criminal action, it is unlikely the state will be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the criminal act set forth in the information on file," Benson's office argued in court papers.
Really. Are you telling me that a jury of people from Idaho, where the case is currently, would not vote to convict the man? Exactly what are you smoking, sir? And what gives you the right to give up a judgement before a popular court against the illegal, unconstitutional, and unwarranted use of force against an unarmed civilian in her home? Sir, SWAT entry teams going into homes on a drug raid face down armed criminals - at literally contact range, in a chaotic situation, and DO NOT SHOOT - they take them alive. Yur dear boy was camouflaged, concealed, observing the house from a SNIPER position, and then used a precision rifle in a deliberate act to take the life of Mrs. Weaver - not in a position of snap-judgements and instant on-the-spot calls. He KNEW what he was doing, Mr. Prosecutor - and he pulled the trigger. WHY WILL YOU NOT PUT HIM ON TRIAL, SIR?
So perhaps the aptly and ominously mentioned "supremacy clause", where federal agents may not be tried for their actions no matter what, never was truly reversed. Is it the policy of the United States Government that a Federal Agent truly has a license to kill? No other agents at Waco, even the ones visible massacring over a dozen people on the FLIR videotapes, were ever prosecuted. None of the people driving the heavy armor - including an M2 Bradley, an M60 Patton, and several other tanks - were ever prosecuted. Even after videotapes taken after the fire show quite clearly charred bodies lying in the path the tanks took driving THROUGH the building that are missing entire sections cleanly cut off, noone else was prosecuted.
Lon Horiuchi was the one who murdered Vicki Weaver. He was also the one responsible for a majority of the deaths at Waco - all of the ones who died on the last day, died because of his "observations" that were not verified by anyone else. It was because of this man's actions that Timothy McVeigh's rage against the government he served as a US soldier in the Gulf War just 2 years and one president earlier began. And will the government do anything to him? No. Horiuchi, even today, is STILL an active agent with the FBI.
Another story from CNN goes further into detail about the government's opinion of events there - Horiuchi's claim that he was not firing at Vicki Weaver, but at Kevin Harris - believed armed (quite very legal in Idaho) and going into the house. Originally, government agents had contacted Randy Weaver about constructing a pair of short-barreled shotguns without registering them on the NFA lists. Weaver turned them down, repeatedly, until he finally gave in to their constant requests and demands. Does the word entrapment come to mind? When the court date came for Weaver, he stayed home in protest. The government set up "surveillance" of his cabin, and several months later Weaver's son and a Federal Marshal are killed in a shootout. The next day, for no yet-known reason, Horiuchi killed Weaver's wife - supposedly shooting at Kevin Harris to protect a government helicopter.
If Lon Horiuchi could not tell the difference with a scoped rifle between a woman with a baby and a man threatening a government helicopter - what the f*ck was he doing pulling any triggers?
Personally...I'd give the people up in Idaho even money on an attempt against Horiuchi, probably soon. Judgement is mine, sayeth the Lord...and I think someone's going to arrange an early trial.
On the subject of gun control...well, the recent assault in Japan ought to make it pretty damned obvious - it's not the guns that cause problems, people can and will still commit mass-murder with whatever they can get their hands on. It's more a case of what's WRONG with this country - fourty years ago, New York City in 1961, highschoolers carried rifles through the city itself, and took them to school - and learned how to use them. There was respect for the firearm and knowledge about its use. There was no foolish gang posturing and "disrespect" back then. Take care of your children. Give them what they need, not what they think they want at the time. How about a return to good "old-fashioned" things like family values and morality? Give the kids a reason to care, and teach respect and honor the RIGHT way. Maybe THEN we might be able to restore a safe youth.
