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This Sunday, April 19th, marks the 33rd anniversary of the FBI & ATF murdering 76 people - including 28 children - in Waco, Texas. What I learned from producing this tweet every year is that the number of people who will defend the actions of those who rule over them no matter how heinous those acts are is legion. When the event took place, the entire political apparatus and the mouthpieces that serve them circled the wagons. No one involved was ever punished. If you don't think that the people who bomb innocents every day and who committed and defended these evil acts aren't capable of the unthinkable things that they've been accused of lately then I strongly suggest that you reconsider. Because there is no bottom to the extent of their depravity. None.

Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child. *RubyRidge Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1993. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home. You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why. The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly. All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate. Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property. After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy. They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip. But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother. Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯