What We Learned At Ruby Ridge
January, 1996
When the FBI screws up, as it did in the assault on Randy Weaver's cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and the massacre at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, innocent people get killed. But the larger cost is that these screwups create martyrs—and myths that will not die.We live by myths. Our politics are driven by them, and for many Americans the above incidents now form the core of a profoundly felt worldview in which the U.S. government is the enemy. They have fueled a militia movement at war with...
