I Hope Bob Livingston Is Over the Top — If He's Not We're All In Big Trouble

SEE HERE I remember two events that made me think we'd gone too far. The first was Ruby Ridge where an FBI sting operation originally for the sole purpose of getting an informant into a White Supremacist group went very bad indeed. A team of agents sent on the grounds that a man had not showed up in court on an appointed date (he never received the information apparently) led to a fire team dispatched to his house which ended up killing the family dog, the man's son and the man's wife. I suppose you could construct that as an overreaction. I certainly did. Indeed, the whole operation smelled from top to bottom. RUBY RIDGE

The second was the disaster at the branch Davidian compound some years later. In some ways this was far more inexcusable since the original charges were all hearsay and largely fabricated. It ended up with the government to all practical purposes executing a whole bunch of religious extremists who had retired from the world largely to await the second coming. WACO I don't know about you, but the government story that they were just executing a search warrant is patently ridiculous. They could have knocked and not shown up instead with an army of armed men.

So just in case you think that Livingston is completely off the reservation, just contemplate what the government was willing to do not so long ago. What might they be willing to do today?