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When a white supremacist named Randy Weaver got into an armed standoff with federal agents that August in the state’s Panhandle, it provided Gritz with his greatest opportunity ever. By negotiating an end to the Ruby Ridge siege after two days on the scene, Gritz once again attained pop-hero status.

At Ruby Ridge, though, Gritz reminded everyone that his heroism had a troubling shadow: As he left the scene and went out to talk to the crowd, he relayed a message from Weaver to the skinheads and neo-Nazis gathered nearby by offering them a stiff-armed Nazi salute.

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The far right's bullshitting heroes: Before there was Trump, there was Bo Gritz

One of the central figures of the 1990s Patriot/militia movement passed away last week, but his toxic legacy lives on in MAGA and Trump

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1995 in the aftermath of the #Waco and #RubyRidge incidents, #LaPierre wrote a fundraising letter describing #federalagents as "jack-booted government thugs" who wear "Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms to attack law-abiding citizens."[22]
Those People at Waco an Ruby Ridge were not law abiding citizens LaPierre lied
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Welp…Randy Weaver is dead
Sure the feds screwed Ruby Ridge up, but Weaver was still a racist POS. At least he knew well enough to TRY to get away from the rest of us!







Randy Weaver, the White Supremacist who became a cause célèbre for other White Supremacists and neo-Nazis when he and his family were involved in the Ruby Ridge Standoff thirty years ago this August, has died at the
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Welp...Randy Weaver is dead – Idavox

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Briggs Land 2: Lone Wolves, in which Jim Briggs tries to seize control with neo-Nazi funding https://boingboing.net/2018/03/09/dysfunctional-families.html #graphicnovels #happymutants #clivenbundy #alt-right #giftguide #rubyridge #Feature #Reviews #Comics #guns #waco
Briggs Land 2: Lone Wolves, in which Jim Briggs tries to seize control with neo-Nazi funding

In the first volume of Briggs Land, DMZ-creator Brian Wood set up a gripping scenario: a leadership struggle in a far-right separatist cult whose leader has languished in prison for decades. Now, …

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