TroutMan:
The militants are broadcasting a live stream from the refuge on Youtube. Not much to see right now, it just shows a backhoe doing something.
And a bit of good news: Blaine Cooper has reportedly taken up the feds on the offer to leave the compound, leaving Jason Patrick as the sole remaining person from the original “leadership” group.
Live feed no longer working…conspiracy!
Even worse…the article says the government ACTUALLY has a BLACK helicopter ready:eek:
Chimera:
Happy, Troutman?
Getting better. I shouldn’t post before coffee.
All cop-choppers in America should be painted black.
Just for the lulz.
Muffin
January 27, 2016, 7:02pm
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From the Mayo Clinic:
The signs and symptoms of lead poisoning in children may include:
Developmental delay
Babies who are exposed to lead before birth may experience:
Learning difficulties
Lead poisoning symptoms in adults
So after presumably making it through life without suffering impairment from lead, lead caught up with Blue Tarp Guy anyway.
I’m celebrating that this horseshit occupation appears to be coming to an end, and that the thugs who organized it are in the pokey; but I’m not celebrating Finicum’s suicide-by-cop. I’m not overly mourning it, mind, but I really wanted to see the sonofabitch in an orange jumpsuit.
Disgusting. I don’t care how much speed you’ve taken, you should wipe every time.
MacCat
January 27, 2016, 8:22pm
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Slow_Moving_Vehicle:
I’m celebrating that this horseshit occupation appears to be coming to an end, and that the thugs who organized it are in the pokey; but I’m not celebrating Finicum’s suicide-by-cop. I’m not overly mourning it, mind, but I really wanted to see the sonofabitch in an orange jumpsuit.
Suicide-by-cop is exactly what it was. I agree about the orange jumpsuit but he took his preferred way out. The fool probably heard about martyrs getting 72 virgins in heaven…
Yeah, but in the Mormon version they *stay *virgins.
It would have clashed with the tarp.
MacCat
January 27, 2016, 8:31pm
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Complementary colors? He should have used a camo tarp, they never would have found him.
davidm
January 27, 2016, 8:34pm
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And here is the board on which he posted his call to arms. Check out the responses. http://www.operationmutualdefense.org/discussion/index.php?topic=26.0
Grsz11
January 27, 2016, 8:46pm
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Interesting…isn’t that a like-minded message board? Also clashes with the videos McConnell posted that basically said if you come now they’ll tell you to go home because you should have been there from the start.
wolfman
January 27, 2016, 9:05pm
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No no no, you misunderstand. That was the first shift. You know the guys who make patriotic public statements, look defiant on camera, and flip off the cops. That shift was full. Now they’re trying to fill second shift, the guys who get shot in the face for the cause.
Amanda Marcotte: Oregon militiamen fell right into the feds’ trap: Sorry, liberals, the government was right to wait before taking them out.
Instead, the feds let the militia get complacent and bored. They let the media attention drift away, forcing the militia to have to take more risks and leave the refuge more to get attention. What looked like federal inattention now looks a whole lot more like it was a trap being set to draw the militia members out.
If so, it worked perfectly. The militia members felt emboldened enough to travel 100 miles away from the refuge, and it was out there, without the shelter of the refuge, the presence of cameras, or the ability to use children or neighbors as human shields, that they were finally nabbed by law enforcement. No expensive destruction of property, no dead kids, no officers killed. Only one would-be martyr lost his life.
But this wasn’t just a success from a damage control perspective, either. The federal strategy also kneecapped the propaganda value of this occupation. As I wrote earlier this month, the lengthy occupation gave the militiamen near-daily opportunities to show the world their true colors, proving that they aren’t manly warriors taking a stand so much as a bunch of clowns playing dress-up.
The arrest is more of the same. Instead of staging some Alamo-inspired last stand in the refuge, they apprehended in the middle of nowhere because they were stupid enough to go on a road trip. The only way this could have been more demoralizing for their cause is if they were wearing adult diapers when they got caught.
davidm
January 27, 2016, 10:13pm
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I don’t get why she says “Sorry, liberals”. Was there a loud cry for blood on the left? Was there a lot of support for these guys on the right?
davidm
January 27, 2016, 10:16pm
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This is pretty much what I expected. The guy is now an undeserving martyr.
