His ravings about the government declaring martial law over Y2K have been proven total nonsense. He refused to answer any questions on January 2nd. His attitudes are widespread amongst religious fundamentalists in Sullivan County. He said Friday he believes by the end of the year every American will understand his distrust as the government deals with the impact of what he says will be a year 2000 computer shutdown.
Man is about five minutes away from becoming a savage.
Weaver is an honorably discharged Green Beret and an admitted racial, religious and political separatist who gave up life in suburban Iowa in 1983 to move to a remote 20-acre plot in Boundary County, Idaho, to live life within his own definition of freedom. In October 1989, he sold two illegal sawed-off shotguns to a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms informant, and a year later he refused to become a federal informant to have the charges dropped. In February 1991, he missed a federal court date on weapons charges that he'd been told was set for a month later, and it was that mix-up that led to the highly publicized siege at Ruby Ridge. To this day only one man has done any time in prison over this, and he is the FBI agent who admitted to shredding documents that would have proven who gave the order to shoot me on sight. Weaver is in Kingsport this weekend at a gun show being held at the MeadowView Conference Resort and Convention Center to sell and autograph the book he wrote with his daughter, Sara.