Wendigoon has released another milquetoast breakdown of a well known government fuckup, this time Ruby Ridge. He spends a large portion of the video decrying Weaver just as he did Koresh and Ted, but it's even more of a blatant editorializing than his words on Koresh and Ted. He equates Weaver to members of the Aryan Brotherhood by showing a lack of understanding of how someone can prefer their own race but not hate others and decries the Weavers for believing in and practicing insular Christianity. He shows a flagrant lack of professionalism by continuing to include corrections from himself after saying something false (i.e. whether Lon knew he shot Vicki). It's obvious that he wants to remove himself from the more fringe crowd he gathered during the conspiracy iceberg videos. When he's not making asides instead of second takes, giving basic information, or editorializing, he's begging people not to hate the government and the existence of government. One major fact which he glossed over was the attempted trial of Lon. Since we no longer have a Randy Weaver memorial thread, I'll repost what was posted there here.
>The sniper, Lon Horiuchi, was charged by Boundary County for killing Vicki (though only on state-level manslaughter charges rather than murder), but, since he was actively working as a Fed when the crime was committed, the USG scooped it up and immediately dropped it by the hand of Judge Edward Lodge (the same Judge who presided over the cases against Weaver and Harris) on the grounds of "sovereign immunity". However, a committee made by the Ninth Circuit went as far as to overturn the dismissal, but the new Boundary County Prosecutor Brett Benson (who had won against the previous Prosecutor and one who had initially made the charges, Denise Woodbury, in the previous election) dropped the case immediately because he felt that too much time had passed, there was not enough certain evidence, and the county should heal by washing its hands of the affair.
He doesn't note the change in prosecutor and states that the county eventually gave up because they couldn't charge the government rather than because there was no one who still wanted to charge the government. Toward the end of the video, he furthers the accepted story of the OKC Bombing despite his own claims of being critical of the government and previously covering stories such as the "Boys on the Tracks". This may have been for optics purposes, for he only covers "safe" conspiracy theories such as the assassinations of MLK and Kennedy rather than those of GLR and Malcom X and the Unabomber rather than the OKC Bomber.
However, an interesting aspect of this video is that he mentions having seen the lives of others be held at the point of the ATF's measuring tapes. If you check his original and now defunct podcast, he mentions having previously been a Boogaloo Boy, calling himself as such on his first account and claiming to be the original then fedposting on his original Wendig00n channel, a channel which he doesn't mention in his Reddit post. However, he has also given conflicting reports about whether he became a militant for politics and where his channel name comes from. In his original podcast, he states that he did it for home defense and because he liked the aesthetics but was scared off when the group became more political and potentially honeypot-ish. On Reddit, he stated that he joined explicitly for the sake of revolution and that he left when his political opponents started joining and even claims he was so influential that he started the trend of Hawaiian shirts being worn by libertarian dissidents. On YouTube, he has stated that he chose to have "goon" in his name not for political affiliations; he instead said it was because it was part of backwood Southern culture. On Twitter, he states that he's not rightwing.
Ruling out the possibility of him being a midwit who became popular based on charisma and outrageousness like Tariq Nasheed, I think Wendigoon was scooped up by the government, probably for a potential gun charge or fedposting, and turned into an asset like Tariq Nasheed to control anti-government discourse online.