It was the George H.W. bush administration when Federal Law Enforcement decided to entrap a civilian to force him to become a government informant. Randy Weaver's young son was shot in the back and killed and his wife was shot in the face by an FBI sniper while she was holding a 18 month child in her arms. The same agency decided that citizens who ordered completely legal brochures about refurbishing old rusty WW2 British junk weapons might be planning to overthrow the government. The notion is preposterous in retrospect. The Feds could have arrested Branch Dividian leader David Koresch at the local 7-11 but what they really wanted was a media splash. The U.S. government ended up using tanks, allegedly armed helicopters and poison gas and after the conflagration was done about 80 men women and children were dead. Evidence alleged in the initial warrant of actual conversion or attempted conversion of junk WW2 weapons was not found in the rubble. The issue was ignored by the media. A couple of years later the same federal agency convinces the Obama administration to ship over 3,000 illegal weapons to drug cartels in Mexico. Somehow the fantasy plan includes tracking the serial numbers but it doesn't work out. The weapons disappear and hundreds of Mexican citizens are allegedly murdered and one American Border Patrol officer is killed with one of the weapons shipped to Mexico by our own government. Nobody is indicted or even fired because the mainstream media justified and supported the administrations at the time and there was little outrage among the public.
