Word: weavers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heading theOklahoma City investigation, was promoted today by Attorney General Janet Reno to Deputy Director of the FBI, the agency's second highest position. Less than a month ago, he received a written reprimand for his mishandling of the fatal 1992 raid on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver. Potts was also in charge ofthe Waco siege...
...express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths of white supremacist Randy Weaver's wife and son in a 1992 Idaho confrontation and the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas, that resulted in the deaths of 82 cult members, including leader David Koresh. Mark Koernke, a prominent militia member who produces videos promoting patriot ideas and goes...
...duster who last year joined a "Christian covenant community" in Idaho, glimpses signs of the "mark of the beast" from Revelations in government fiscal policy. He shares a widespread fear among Christian patriots that bodily implanted microchips will replace cash, ultimately spelling slavery for ordinary Americans. Vicki and Randall Weaver had visions of an apocalypse brought on by a Babylonian Federal Government, or ZOG (Zionist-Occupied Government). The apocalypse that came to their Idaho mountaintop in 1992--over flimsy gun charges against Randall--is one the Weavers surely helped bring on. But when an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver...
...woman in the Timex commercial. This woman jumps out of an airplane (she's a hard-core skydiver). Her chutes don't open. She smashes into the ground form serious heights, does not die, just bruises her tailbone, and she's still jumping today. And then there's Sigourney Weaver in Alien. But I would say the Timex woman...
...patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...