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Waco: Initial raid was because D. Koresh allegedly owed a $200 tax on an NFA weapon. He could easily have been arrested in town, but the BATFEebs wanted publicity. Turns out he didn't owe the tax and didn't own any NFA weapons, so the FedGoons cooked up a "meth lab" story which also fell apart in short order. From there, they came up with the "child sex abuse" angle, which lasted about 10 days, and had finally progressed to "this lunatic thinks he's Jesus." Shortly thereafter, the FedGoons roasted everyone alive.
Ruby Ridge was essentially revenge. Vicki Weaver had offended a local judge in a "Letters to the Editor" column. This judge happened to have friends at ATF, who he persuaded to trick Randy Weaver into sawing down a pair of single-barrel shotguns. The BATFEebs then went to Weaver and tried to blackmail him into spying on a local White Supremacist group for them "Do this for us or go to Pound Me In The Ass Federal Penitentiary" was the gist of it. Weaver refused. ATF and FBI then spent several months surveilling the Weaver farm before laying siege to it and murdering Vicki and Sammy weaver, severely wounding Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, and slightly wounding Weaver's two eldest daughters.
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