Michael Dornier was at war...
Who is/was Michael Dornier? Do you maybe mean Chris Dorner?
Randy Weaver was at war...
Randy Weaver was at war with who? He is/was *labeled* a white separatist because of a friendship with a person who *associated* with members of a white separatist group, but he has always denied that he or his friend were members, and cited his belief in the coming
Apocalypse as the reason he took his family away from the evils of society and isolated themselves on Ruby Ridge. He was 30 years ahead of
you in believing that we were/are living in the End Times!
An angry neighbor who he had beat in a lawsuit initiated the fed's awareness of him by
lying about who the Weavers were and what they were doing up there. He was subsequently set up by an undercover FBI agent that relentlessly hounded him to shorten the barrel of a shotgun and he finally gave in to the agent's urgings. That was the basis for the warrant that ended in the death of his son, his wife and the family dog. All because he wouldn't turn informant (against people whom he denies to this day that he ever had an association with) in exchange for dropping the illegal weapons charge that
originated in the minds of federal agents who declared and conducted
open war on a family of US citizens. All any of the
Weavers ever wanted was to be left the heck
alone!
Not only was Randy Weaver the illegal and unjustifiable
target of a war on freedom by the government, and not only did he have to sacrifice his wife and his son as a result of the prosecution of that war, he was also
prosecuted for murder and
acquitted by a jury of his peers as acting in
self-defense in the death of one of the federal agents that participated in the illegal assault on Ruby Ridge and the death of his wife and son. You really
should read about the trial and know what you're talking about before you slander an innocent man who was unjustifiably persecuted by the same government you're claiming had "war" waged against it by him.
Vernon Howell was at war....
Oh my goodness!!!!! The government passes on multitudes of opportunities to arrest Koresh in town while he was unarmed, alone and unable to put up any meaningful resistance, and instead assault the Davidians complex in military fashion over
more trumped-up charges of child abuse that have
never been substantiated to this day, and here you are slandering
another victim of the government as a "war" monger!!! The government waged so much damned war that it killed 76 men, women and children on the final day of the siege.
For all your dictionary definitions of "war," it sure would seem you don't have a freakin' clue who has been responsible for waging it in two of the three most significant cases you cite here.
Timothy McVeigh was at war...
You got one out of four right!
The chest beaters here? Nope, you’re not at war. At best, you’re sneaking around behind the invaders backs using the “war” as an excuse to justify your unlawful actions
And the slander continues. Axe using words to describe his take on society's state of war or peace is hardly "unlawful," and he has described nothing in this (or any other that I've ever seen) thread that he has done that could conceivably be deemed "unlawful."
I have questions about Romans 13 as it relates to our duty to submit to government(s), but I have never heard an analysis of it that suggests that
any human being doesn't have the God-given authority to defend themselves against assault, whether it be perpetrated by government in a "lawful" manner or otherwise.
I'm not saying that I'm in total agreement with Axe about the guy who was killed by cops in the case being discussed here.
IF he was given a chance to lower or drop his weapon, and
IF he was aware that that chance was being offered by cops, he should have taken that opportunity. But these days, what with three of the very examples you cite Treo, those are two very big
IFs, which makes Axe's take on the scenario at least as valid as yours or anyone else's.
Blues