{"id":205,"date":"2006-11-02T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/another-shot-at-ruby-ridge\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T15:23:54","slug":"another-shot-at-ruby-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/another-shot-at-ruby-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Shot at Ruby Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Atkins, a reporter for the Boston Herald, called me yesterday regarding Deval Patrick, the Democratic candidate for governor in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Patrick played a notorious role in the Ruby Ridge scandal, overruling a Justice Department panel regarding FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi.\u00a0\u00a0 Horiuchi\u00a0 was the guy who gunned down Vicki Weaver as she held her baby in the cabin door on an Idaho mountaintop in 1992.\u00a0 Patrick decreed that applying the death sentence was not &#8220;excessive force.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Atkins <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/localPolitics\/view.bg?articleid=165265&#038;format=text\">quoted &#038; tagged me<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt was obscene,\u201d said author James Bovard, an outspoken critic of federal officials\u2019 handling of the case. \u201cThere was no need for the excessive force the FBI used in gunning down a mother holding her baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is refreshing to see this issue being raised\u00a0again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Let&#8217;s see if Massachusetts liberals give a damn about excessive force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Atkins, a reporter for the Boston Herald, called me yesterday regarding Deval Patrick, the Democratic candidate for governor in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Patrick played a notorious role in the Ruby Ridge scandal, overruling a Justice Department panel regarding FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi.\u00a0\u00a0 Horiuchi\u00a0 was the guy who gunned down Vicki Weaver as she held her baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bovard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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