In a shocking display of imperial hubris, the violent force of the government's police and military might came down on one helpless family in their self-built Idaho mountain home.

For a year authorities trespassed and spied on the Weavers depriving them of every last semblance of privacy. Then one day without warning or cause police sharp shooters killed their dog and then their 14 year old son, shooting them both in the back as they fled the ambush that had been waiting for them on their own private property. Days later another police sharp shooter blew a bullet through Mrs. Weaver's head blasting out one full side of her face and jawbone, killing her instantly. This was done as she stood unarmed in front of her home holding her infant daughter in her arms.

The days and nights that followed were hell for the Weaver family, holed up in their home wounded and traumatized, the dead and bloodied bodies of their family members wrapped in blankets in nearby rooms. Police surrounded their home 24 hours a day, even underneath it where the Weaver's could hear them under the floor boards. They used heavy equipment at night to roll across their yard, crushing their property and utterly destroying it. They taunted the Weavers daily through bullhorns, telling them to come outside. The Weaver's knew they would never be allowed to survive the ordeal and all of them expected to be killed.

What could Randy Weaver, a husband and father who took his family out of the rat race to live off the grid, have done to deserve what was done to him and his family? Did this horrendous punishment fit the crime? Or wasn't the government's attitude and treatment in fact an exponentially worse crime than anything Randy Weaver had ever done?