On some level, I do feel sorry for these guys. They’re stupid assholes, but like Clothahump, they don’t know that they’re gullible.
If you believed everything they believed you’d be angry too. They’re unwitting victims of RW media misinformation.
But then I think of them in jail, and I laugh.
I said nothing about killing everyone or carpet bombing anybody. Did you quote the wrong post? If not, then put words in your own mouth, not mine.
I just watched the meeting between the Sheriff and Bundy. Bundy doesn’t seem to understand that he is placing people in real jeopardy with his stance. While the Sheriff didn’t say specifically what is coming next, any fool can read between the lines. The smart ones in the group will get in their trucks and get the fuck out before things get rough. Whoever stays will see what pressure feels like when communication, utilities and food are cut off, the press isn’t allowed to approach the compound, and they start turning on each other. Bundy seems to think he’s in a reality show.
You see, Ammon?! This is the kind of thing that makes America great!
FFS, this shit is beyond ridiculous now. What is with the Sheriff “offering” anything except a fucking ultimatem: get out or face the consequences? The handcuffs should have gone on his wrists the instant he said no.
They brought out a caravan of 4 cars, I’m guessing there were a lot of guns at that meeting.
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Why do you insist that there are no federal authorities present? It’s been made clear repeatedly that the FBI is present.
These people are not “protestors” they are militants.
Are you just trying to match adaher for being wrong about so many different things?
The FBI is NOT present in the sense that they are confronting or in contact with the teabillies. At least nothing I have seen indicates this. They may be nearby in the event that the shit hits the fan.
And? Not being flip here, but that’s exactly why it’s time to cut the shit already. If the mere prospect of enforcing the law is scary because we think these guys might go Rambo, then why again are treating them like harmless Twinkie-eating blokes? I don’t get this.
The FBI is coordinating efforts to assemble bleachers with which to cordon off the Bubbabundyites, and then charge the general public admission to watch the freak show from the stands as the Bubbabundyites throw shit at each other.
Oh come on, that is just insulting. These are salt of the earth people hundreds of miles away from their loved ones. If anything sexual is going on, it is them having long distance phone sex with their cows.
I’d like to see an armada of aerial drones, maybe 50 of 'em, all GPS synchronized and decked out with flashing LEDs, orbiting the compound, and streaming video as the goofus brigade takes potshots at them.
Maybe if they took potshots at the drones, some of that loose ammunition might just rain down on them?
No, he does not see. In one report, I saw him quoted as saying that he does not have a “tweet account”.
They’re militant protesters. Armed protesters. Like the old Black Panthers, with whom I’m sure they have nothing else in common.
And as we all know, when faced with the Black Panthers, the FBI proceeded with careful deliberation and a healthy respect for an American Citizen’s right to bear arms.
In the tradition! After all, it was the FBI that broke the back of racial terrorism in places like Mississippi! Saw the documentary.
Saw was a documentary?
It looks like a posse is headed up from Utah. It includes an attorney who represents one of the [del]batshit crazy[/del] “protesters” and has the following to say:
Ya think?
Unfortunately for all the fun, they’re going to try to help manage the message.
Deescalate? Could it be any more deescalated than it already is? No one is paying attention other than to point and laugh.