You mean like flipping burgers? By and large, most people who enlist these days are from the lower classes - joining the military is the best shot they have at a job that isn’t just minimum wage, blue collar labor, and it’s the best shot they have at upward mobility and making something for themselves in their life. It’s not an easy job, it’s not a safe job, and it’s the kind of job where you never know when the world will change overnight (as it did 15 years ago) and you find yourself in a situation you never imagined you’d wind up in on your path to finding a way to pay for college.
They fight and they die for you because they have been ordered to, in spite of your demeaning dismissal of their sacrifice.
Well, I suppose this whole kerfuffle will wind down on its own then as soon as the park ranger shows up and, in a firm but polite tone, announces “Hey, you guys aren’t supposed to be here, move along now”.
I never said that. I’m more of the popcorn type, hoping the authorities will be creative and nonviolent in dealing with these hicks, so they can all spend many many years contemplating the inside of Leavenworth penitentiary.
Of course that only holds until they start shooting at federal officers. If that happens, and I hope they’re not that stupid (even though one of the tiny dicks said he came there to die), then fuck them, I don’t care what happens.
One of these yahoos, calling himself “Captain Moroni” (using one letter too many), proclaims:
Not to live for a cause, or defeat tyranny, just to end whatever sorry excuse for a life he’s been leading. Except he doesn’t have the guts to do it himself.
Ladies and gentlemen, *your *Second Amendment Remedies! Let’s give 'em a big hand!
Captain Moroni is a heroic figure in the Book of Mormon who raised a heroic stand in defense of the people’s liberties against a group of reprobates who sought to establish a king.
So yeah, this is quite literally an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil on the part of some of the assholes involved.
Sensible enough. Attention is what these dinglemuffins want. The Hammonds (the “victims” of “oppression”) will turn themselves in tomorrow, to serve some part of their prison term, probably less than a year, followed by a lengthy parole. So, cause undermined, these heroes of freedumb will be kind of left twisting in the cold winter wind that swirls through the snowbound high desert. In less than a week, this will not even be two lines of text outside the Moonie Times.
Poor angry separatists, they will not get the press they crave. The rest of us will just WFC them to death.
Well, you can count me in the group that doesn’t approve of summary execution, but thinks that serious consequences should be followed through with here.
Having said that, it’d be interesting to see what would happen if a bunch of armed black and muslim ‘oath keepers’ showed up to patrol outside the protestors.
Even better - this is a critical stopping point for the flyway that brings ducks and geese to hunters across the West. Just need to let the hunting public know that these yahoos are messing with next fall’s duck season. Support (if there is any - and the redneck channel on my Facebook feed is not showing any yet) will dry up fast.
My mom went on a Steens Mountain birding trip with the Audobon Society a couple years ago. Mostly, I think, for the trip, she is not a huge avid birder. And the scopes tend to be a tad to tall for her to use (because normal-size people set up the tripods). But, so, yeah, that there wilderness area does in fact get visitors who appreciate the wild area.