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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2017
‘What are your Labor Day weekend plans?’
“I generally do not
celebrate. I might
have dinner with my
boyfriend, though.
That sounds good.”
“Stay home and work
on a classic car.
Might have two of
them by next week-
end.”
Gail Griff ey, Astoria
“Taking my two black
Labs to the North Jet-
ty and letting them
run and splash in the
ocean. They make me
laugh, and we have a
blast. We pick up trash
while we’re out there, too.”
Dave Ambrose, Astoria
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Janie Steinberg, Knappa
Radical movement grows from legacy of Ruby Ridge
surrendering on Aug. 31,
1992.
Twenty-fi ve years later,
here’s a look at the stand-
off and some of its lingering
effects:
Inspiration for
extreme politics
By NICHOLAS K.
GERANIOS
Associated Press
experts say.
The standoff is one of sev-
eral things that spurred the
resurgence of right-wing
extremism in the 1990s, said
Mark Pitcavage, a spokes-
man for the Anti-Defamation
League, a Jewish civil rights
organization.
“We are still in the midst of
that,” he said.
Anti-government
inspiration
SPOKANE, Wash. — It’s
been a quarter-century since
a standoff in the mountains of
northern Idaho left a 14-year-
old boy, his mother and a fed-
eral agent dead and sparked
an expansion of radical right-
wing groups in the United
States that continues today.
The gunfi ght at Ruby
Ridge occurred when agents
approached Randy Weaver’s
property near the Canadian
border looking for a place to
arrest the military veteran on
gun charges. They had been
investigating him for possible
ties to white supremacist and
anti-government groups.
Weaver, his daughters and
a friend holed up in the fam-
ily’s cabin for 11 days before
“Ruby Ridge continues to
be an inspiration for the rise in
extreme anti-government pol-
itics,” said Ryan Lenz of the
Southern Poverty Law Center,
which tracks and studies radi-
cal groups.
The number of far-right,
anti-government militia groups
grew dramatically after the
election of Barack Obama, the
country’s fi rst black president,
Lenz said.
Such groups historically
drop off when a Republican
becomes president, Lenz said.
Instead, they burst into the pub-
lic arena with the election of
President Donald Trump.
That led to the recent vio-
lent confl ict between white
The Weavers
AP Photo/Jeff T. Green
Randy Weaver supporters at Ruby Ridge in northern Ida-
ho in 1992. It’s been a quarter century since a standoff in
the remote mountains of northern Idaho left a 14-year-old
boy, his mother and a federal agent dead and sparked the
expansion of radical right-wing groups across the coun-
try that continues to this day.
supremacists and their oppo-
nents in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia, and disputes over Con-
federate monuments.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
55
Low clouds
Mostly sunny and
beautiful
Last
Salem
60/85
Newport
53/65
Sep 12
Coos Bay
56/70
First
Sep 19
Associated Press
La Grande
52/82
BROOKINGS — Fire-
fi ghters in southern Oregon
on Tuesday gained a toe-
hold on a fi re burning near
the coastal town of Brook-
ings but new evacuations
were ordered after a fl are-up
on a different complex of
lightning-caused fi res in a
Baker
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Ontario
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Burns
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Klamath Falls
44/87
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
3:58 a.m.
3:43 p.m.
Low
0.9 ft.
3.0 ft.
REGIONAL CITIES
City
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Bend
Brookings
Eugene
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Klamath Falls
Medford
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Newport
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A few months after Ruby
Ridge, federal agents laid siege
to the Waco, Texas, compound
of the Branch Davidians, a
religious sect. An assault was
launched, and a fi re destroyed
the compound and killed more
than 70 people.
Timothy McVeigh cited
both Ruby Ridge and Waco as
motivators when he bombed
the federal building in Okla-
homa City in 1995.
remote area near the Califor-
nia border.
Authorities allowed some
residents back into their
homes near Brookings but
several thousand more remain
evacuated. The 184-square-
mile fi re is now 5 percent con-
tained with a full containment
date of mid-October.
The blaze began from a
lightning strike on July 12
but grew rapidly last week, at
one point forcing about 4,500
people from their homes. Fire
crews are bracing for more
diffi cult conditions later this
week, with very low humid-
ity and triple-digit tempera-
tures forecast. Winds on the
fi re have also been gusty and
erratic.
Lakeview
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Ashland
54/92
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Tonight's Sky: Marked by its brightest star Vega, the
constellation Lyra the Harp will stand high in the sky.
Waco and
Oklahoma City
Firefi ghters make slow progress
against Oregon’s big blazes
Roseburg
57/89
Brookings
55/79
Sep 27
John Day
53/86
Bend
47/85
Medford
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Warrenton Police offi cer to graduate
The Daily Astorian
An incoming Warrenton
P olice offi cer will graduate
next week from the state public
safety academy in Salem.
Offi cer Joshua Hollaway
is listed as one of 37 that will
graduate with the Oregon Public
Safety Academy’s 370th basic
police class. The graduation will
take place at 11 a.m. on Sept. 8 .
The 16-week basic police
class includes lessons and exer-
cises that teach survival skills,
fi rearms, emergency vehi-
cle operations, ethics, cul-
tural diversity, problem solv-
ing, community policing, elder
abuse, drug recognition and
dozens of other subjects.
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi Lo
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70 59
80 64
93 62
82 62
80 61
90 65
62 43
86 72
82 64
80 59
105 84
97 75
77 70
93 81
80 68
85 74
77 66
82 62
78 65
83 65
92 68
70 57
75 60
79 68
Prineville
46/87
Lebanon
58/85
Eugene
53/84
New
Pendleton
57/86
The Dalles
63/89
Portland
62/82
Sunset tonight ........................... 7:58 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 6:35 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 3:41 p.m.
Moonset today .......................... 12:29 a.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
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Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Very warm with plenty of
sunshine
Tillamook
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SUN AND MOON
High
5.9 ft.
7.1 ft.
78
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ASTORIA
55/69
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.38"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.05"
Year to date .................................... 50.05"
Normal year to date ........................ 37.99"
Time
10:28 a.m.
9:39 p.m.
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
SUNDAY
82
57
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 69°/54°
Normal high/low ........................... 69°/52°
Record high ............................ 88° in 1944
Record low ............................. 42° in 1985
Sep 5
76
57
A blend of sun and clouds
ALMANAC
Full
SATURDAY
69
52
Experts also point to a sep-
arate case involving anti-gov-
ernment icon Cliven Bundy,
of Nevada. Last week, a fed-
eral jury in Las Vegas refused
to convict four men accused of
threatening and assaulting fed-
eral agents by wielding assault
weapons in a 2014 confronta-
tion near Bundy’s ranch.
Much of this tumult
stemmed from Ruby Ridge,
The roots of Ruby Ridge
were planted in the 1980s,
when Weaver moved his fam-
ily to Idaho to escape what he
saw as a corrupt world.
Weaver eventually was sus-
pected of selling two illegal
sawed-off shotguns to a gov-
ernment informant. To avoid
arrest, he holed up on his land.
On Aug. 21, 1992, a team
of U.S. marshals scouting the
thick forest to fi nd suitable
places to arrest Weaver came
across his friend Kevin Har-
ris and Weaver’s 14-year-old
son, Samuel, in the woods.
A gunfi ght broke out. Sam-
uel Weaver and Deputy U.S.
Marshal William Degan were
killed.
The next day, an FBI sniper
shot and wounded Randy
Weaver. The sniper also killed
Randy’s wife, Vicki, with a
shot to the head, and wounded
Harris.
The survivors stayed in
the cabin Weaver built, ignor-
ing pleas to surrender from
people like Aryan Nations
leader Richard Butler, whose
now-defunct neo-Nazi group
was based in nearby Hayden
Lake. Ruby Ridge became
a magnet for people with
anti-government leanings, who
gathered near law enforcement
barricades.
The family fi nally surren-
dered, and Randy Weaver was
acquitted of the most seri-
ous charges against him. He
and his three daughters fi led
a wrongful death lawsuit, and
the government paid them $3.1
million in 1995.
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sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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ON THE RECORD
Assault
• At 1:55 a.m. Saturday,
Gregory Adams Jr., 26, of Wol-
cottville, Indiana, was arrested
by the Warrenton Police
Department on the 1000 block
of Pacifi c Drive and charged
with fourth-degree assault
and harassment. He allegedly
became angry when a bar-
tender at the South Jetty Din-
ing Room and Bar refused to
continue serving him alcohol.
When employees attempted to
escort him from the restaurant,
he allegedly threw multiple
punches, hitting a bartender in
the chest and knocking her to
the ground. He also allegedly
hit a cook in the face, leaving a
visible injury.
MEMORIAL
DUII
• At 7:49 p.m. Saturday,
Mark Alfred Lamie, 56, of
Astoria, was arrested by the
Warrenton Police Department
on U.S. Highway 101 near
Glenwood Village and charged
with driving under the infl u-
ence of intoxicants. His blood
alcohol content was 0.25
percent.
• At 11:59 p.m. Monday,
Sharon Laferriere, 57, of War-
renton, was arrested by the
Warrenton Police Department
on the 70 block of U.S. High-
way 101 Business and charged
with DUII. Police allegedly
could smell marijuana when
they approached her, and she
admitted to “dabbing.”
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