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This will be an on-going section in DnA magazine. This section will
report/expose current abuses of power by our wonderful phederal agencies that
are supposed to "serve" us.
For our premier article, we present an agency that needs no introduction.
They were the hosts of the "Most Expensive Barbecue In History", the ones that
can't even serve a search warrant without screwing it up, the ones that throw
"frag" grenades at their own people. I give you: the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms. A big hand for the BATF!
The following is in tribute to the BATF. A branch of the government that
doesn't seem to have to answer to anyone except themselves.
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Written by: Alan W. Bock 6-28-93
In Idaho, the BATF strikes again
The firestorm at Waco and its aftermath have pretty much fallen off the
media's scopes. But another case, now being played out in Idaho, offers
further evidence that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has
sometimes operated as something of a rogue agency, engaging in deliberately
provocative actions that often lead to shoot-outs.
Randy Weaver, 45, the main defendant in this trial, is probably not the
person most of us would choose first as a next-door neighbor. He is at least
on the fringe of being a white supremacist. A slight, crew-cut former Green
Beret, he moved to Idaho in 1983 with his family. He bought a plot of land
and built himself a little house without electricity or running water. He
lived on what he could hunt, grow, or trade. Quite a few people, for various
reasons, live pretty much that way in the Idaho woods.
As The New York Times reported June 23, "despite his beliefs, Mr. Weaver
never had a run-in with the law until he met up in 1991 with the federal
undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The
agents said they would buy two shotguns from Mr. Weaver if he sawed off the
barrels, making them illegal. Mr. Weaver altered and sold the guns to the
agents."
Maybe that's entrapment, maybe not quite. Mr. Weaver's friends say the
BATF used the firearms infraction as leverage to get him to inform on friends
in the white-supremacist Aryan Nation (Weaver himself doesn't seem to have
been an activist). Weaver said no. As the trial proceeded, he became
convinced he was being railroaded, so he simply went back to his mountain
retreat.
Weaver was then accused of failing to show up for his trial, although
federal authorities have admitted he was given the wrong date. Would he have
shown up if he had known the right date? Who knows?
Failure to appear wouldn't seem to justify a military-style assault. But
that's what happened. The Times reported, "testimony showed that the federal
authorities never attempted or even considered a simple arrest. They spent
nearly $1 million for an operation that involved 16 months of surveillance of
Mr. Weaver's cabin and a final siege with about 400 heavily armed federal
agents."
Last August 21, three of the government's sharpshooters, hiding in the
woods and dressed in camouflage, were flushed by Weaver's dog, out for a walk
with his 14-year-old son, Sammy. The agents shot the dog dead. The son shot
in their direction, and he was shot in the back. A family friend also shot
back, and a federal agent was killed. Later, Weaver's wife was shot in the
temple by a sharpshooter with a scope, as she stood in the doorway with her
10-month-old baby in her arms. An armed stand-off ensued.
The government tried to create the image of a dangerous neo-Nazi who
plotted an armed confrontation. But, to quote the Times again, that image
"has been eclipsed by courtroom revelations. Federal authorities have been
sanctioned by the judge for withholding evidence, and the government's case
against Mr. Weaver has been contradicted by its won witnesses. At one point,
Judge Lodge said that 75 percent of the testimony and evidence presented by
the government had aided the defense."
The similarities to Waco are eery: A zealot seems again to have been
targeted because of his zealotry, with marginally illegal actions induced or
alleged as justification. BATF agents seem determined to have an armed
confrontation. When things went wrong, they covered up and lied.
The BATF, in search for a real mission since Prohibition was repealed, was
almost abolished during the Reagan years. It should have been. It should be
now.
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