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Ruby Ridge: The Age of State Terrorism Begins
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Enemies of the State: Samuel and Vicki Weaver (left and rear-center) pose with Sara and Rachel. |
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Future Murderer Lon Horiuchi. |
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As the indispensable James Bovard pointed out sixteen years ago, the Marshals Service “gave its highest award for valor” to the five surviving members of the home invasion squad that murdered Samuel Weaver. In presenting the award, then-director Eduardo Gonzalez hymned the praises of the “exceptional courage … sound judgment in the face of attack, and … high degree of professional competence” displayed by the agents whose actions precipitated the needless deaths of three people, and the attempted murder of two others.
Like Kenney, Guthrie would later be the victim of an anomalous prison suicide: His body was “found” by a guard hanging from a bedsheet. Just before his death in 1996, Guthrie had told the Los Angeles Times that he was writing a memoirthat would, among other things, describe connections between the ARA and the OKC bombing.