A Win for Civil Liberties
Newsweek, June, 2001 by Jonathan Alter
In most of America, the words "Ruby Ridge" don't mean a lot. People vaguely remember the incident: A standoff between federal agents and white separatists outside a remote Idaho cabin. An FBI sharpshooter killed a woman. Timothy McVeigh and other militia types got all worked up about it, which meant-for the casual observer-that maybe the whole thing was another one of those right-wing-conspiracy fantasies. Yawn.
But Ruby Ridge is an important case even for those of us who don't worry about black helicopters or don't "live off the grid." The decision this week by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to allow Idaho to try to hold the FBI responsible for the woman's death was an important boost to our constitutional rights. I'm one of those people who believes that, by and...
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