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women and children died in the fire purposely
      set ("a satchel of explosives") by Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor
      and Fire Chief William Richmond to open a hole in the building for tear
      gas delivery. But Pennsylvania state law was ruled to grant them
      personal immunity from Federal civil rights charges because they were
      state employees [what???]. The incident occurred in May 1985.

    o Waco. CS tear gas attack by the FBI using Army tanks.

The government, across the decades, keeps managing to burn people to death,
rather than bringing them to trial.

Often, tear gas is involved.

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Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge.

Persisting, a BATF informant persuaded Weaver, a DECORATED GREEN BERET
VETERAN of Vietnam with NO CRIMINAL RECORD, to sell him two shotguns,
but insisted that Weaver saw the barrels off one-quarter inch short of
the legal limit.

Monitoring him, they knew Mr. Weaver needed money for his family.

Why did the government target Mr. Weaver?

Blackmail.

One of the FBI's favorite activities is spying on political organizations.

They wanted to use him to infiltrate white supremacists groups for the
government. Or face prosecution.

When Weaver refused, he was indicted on guns charges. He was sent two
conflicting court appearance dates. He became paranoid the Government
was out to get him, so he didn't show up. [He was eventually acquitted
of all charges except the original not showing up in court!]

To justify a militaristic retaliation, BATF agents lied to the U.S.
attorney's office. BATF agents claimed that Weaver had a criminal record
and that he was a suspect in several bank robberies.

Both charges were fabrications, even according to BATF Director John Magaw,
who admitted the accusa