JumpinJack
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Oh you mean Tim McVeigh? Actually when I read the book American Terrorist about the OKC bombing, it pretty much told his life story, and he seemed fine until he got out of the Army, and something changed, big time! Either he was suffering from mental illness (which might very well be true since he did have a breakdown and was suicidal) or he was always an odd duck. Still I remember reading about the militia movement that started with the FBI murder of Randy Weaver's wife and family dog at Ruby Ridge, then of course the Waco mess, and that just got the militia movement going stronger.
Yes, that's him. McVeigh. I don't subscribe to the notion that someone who does something evil has a mental illness, any more so than any other criminal. All violent criminals are disturbed in one way or another, or they wouldn't be violent criminals.
The Ruby Ridge incident: There was no murder, except intentional homicide of one of the deputies (the first shot fired at a person killed the deputy).
Weaver has a large weapons cache in his cabin. The whole family took up arms and set up in armed positions around the cabin. A firefight erupted. The siege lasted for days.
The marshals were doing their job. They could've handled it better, but when you take up arms against the feds, you are assuming the risk you'll get shot. Even if you are a woman or teenager. They took a risk that they surely knew they were taking, and they were on the losing end....as all criminals are when they resist arrest from the feds. Weaver was finally arrested, after he placed his family in jeapordy.
None of the marshals was found guilty of wrongdoing. There was no murder.
Wacko country bumpkins. If Weaver had just gone with the arresting marshals, none of the killings would have happened. These people who hang out in the woods filled with hatred for the government are very dangerous. Bad things tend to happen whenever they're around.