Ruby Ridge standoff

And he plays Amazing Grace 800 miles away in his Arizona studio for the church known as Branch Davidian.

sounds like lord of the rings what you're talking about yeah just the wrong side of this immediately he says ruby ridge was a shock test the way silent weapons described it in his book you do something to a marginal person nobody cares about and you measure whether anybody objects and if nobody does you go on to a bigger one april 19th the tanks go in and the place burns and he cannot get out of bed uh and his first show back opens with America the Beautiful No More, the second battle of the second American Revolution just ended, and folks, we lost.

He drives to Waco with Annie and Pooh, sits in the bar where the ATF drink, and watches them strut around like roosters, he claims, and goes out to the site at night after the button vendors all go home, and he says the first thing that hits you is a smell he remembered from the river, sweet and sticky.

So he goes out to fucking Waco and like re-traumatizes himself.

so messed up this

time

and fill her up by his own account in his own memoir says i think we probably did referring to stepping on their own dicks this time he thought the irs should have warned the marshals that bill cooper was not an ordinary citizen citizen behind on his taxes that he had come to talk because after Ruby Ridge and Waco, nobody in the bureau wanted to play tough guy anymore.

And he told Jacobson, the man on the hill, that that day was a different man from the one who had gotten a thrill out of meeting a real G-man two years before.

Hear that?

The predecessor that became the Patriot Act was written in the aftermath essentially of the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco and Ruby Ridge.

That is what led to a first anti-terrorism bill that would then essentially, according to Joe Biden at the time, just become the Patriot Act, like taken off the shelf.

This is a crisis, and here we've got this thing.

But what you said, you know, you reading that in the beginning, I think we as a nation took our eye off Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, and it, it really happened in '95 with the Murrah bombing, when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah building.

And then we had, uh, Ruby Ridge, and, uh, there was, uh, Waco.

Um, suddenly it was domestic terrorism.

Everyone was talking about domestic terrorism.

I ...

Yeah, China and Iran didn't start Ruby Ridge.

They didn't do Waco.

They didn't do Oklahoma City bombing.

First card in the pack.

It's Ruby Ridge.

Holy shit.

We got Ruby Ridge.

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

I'm gonna shoot your baby and your dog.

Burn your life? Let's go.

Shout out Ruby Ridge.