Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy and I had a rollicking time rehashing the crimes and outrages of Ruby Ridge on his podcast.
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Video: How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup
Update: Almost 50,000 views for this video on Twitter/X On June 30, 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I got hold of a 542 page confidential Justice Department and wrote a Wall Street Journal piece exposing the official lies on the FBI killing of Vicki Weaver as she […]
How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup
How I Busted the Ruby Ridge coverup By James Bovard, June 30, 2026 On this day in 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. For millions of Americans, those brazen killings epitomized how the U.S. government had become a deadly peril to their rights and liberties. In 1991, an […]
Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge by James Bovard 01/26/2026 • Mises Wire • James Bovard On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis killed protester Alex Pretti, shooting him in the back 10 times after they had taken away the pistol he legally carried. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller quickly A few hours […]
New York Post: Ruby Ridge Helps Explain FBI’s Gestapo Image
New York Post, August 24, 2022 Ruby Ridge, 30 years ago, helps explain the FBI’s ‘Gestapo’ image By James Bovard In the wake of the massive raid at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, politicians and pundits are hectoring Americans to blindly trust the FBI. “The men and women of the FBI,” Attorney General Merrick Garland proclaimed, […]
Ruby Ridge and the FBI License to Kill
Today is the 29th anniversary of FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi killing Vicki Weaver as she stood in the door of a cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, holding her baby. The FBI initially claimed that killing Mrs. Weaver was justified and then later covered up key details and claimed it was accidental. FBI chief Louis Freeh […]
Ruby Ridge, the FBI, and Louis Freeh – My 1995 Cover Story
Here is my all-time favorite magazine cover story – my 1995 tribute to FBI boss Louis Freeh. This story came out five months after Freeh publicly denounced me in a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Freeh was outraged over a piece I did on the FBI’s killing at Ruby Ridge. One of Randy Weaver’s […]
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charles bukowski
Trump caused this. Do Not Forget.