Same here. Waco is what "radicalized" me - not so much the massacre itself (though that was certainly bad enough), but more so the complete absence of any accountability whatsoever in the aftermath of the massacre. I had been willing to chalk the incident at Ruby Ridge up to a "glitch" along the lines of "no system is perfect, human existence is tragic, the rain falls on the just and the unjust, and sometimes, shit happens and things just fall between the cracks".
But the deliberately orchestrated self-absolution of the feds from any responsibility at all for their deliberately murderous actions (AG Janet Reno's utterly and ludicrously inconsequential mea culpa to the contrary notwithstanding) was the final insult. Over the course of events following the Waco holocaust, it became abundantly clear that this was not the result of some kind of "glitch" in the system - it was the system, naked and exposed. What happened at Waco (and what followed - or, rather, what didn't follow) laid bare the real point and purpose of the system. Upon the revelation that "muh roads" and such were just fig leaves being coyly used to conceal that shame, I went from being a "moderate" libertarian to being a "radical extremist" libertarian.
All my sincere thanks go to the ATF, FBI, Janet Reno, Chuck Shumer, et al. for lifting the scales of naivete from my eyes. It might not have happened without them.
