Down Home Terrorists

[sexobon]

That's why they didn't wait longer to do this even though more time would have been useful to cache resources in the vicinity. They realized they wouldn't be able to survive long without air conditioning once the power was cut in warmer weather.

Well, that and it's easier to detect intruders in the snow.

[Griff]

They'll probably start shooting each other the day they run out of coffee.

[glatt]

Maybe I'm late to this, but as the traditional news media struggles with how to label these guys, social media steps up with:

"y'all-qaeda," "yee-hawdists," and "yokel haram."

[Spexxvet]

Funny. It's the people whose attitude is "If the government (a cop) tells an unarmed black man to do something and he doesn't do it, he deserve to be shot" now have the attitude "If the government tells an armed red neck to do something and he doesn't do it, the government is evil"

Nitwits.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You can buy a bumper sticker...
http://www.byebyeblm.org/

CATO, yeah I know, but they have very good one page background of this mess called, "No Good Guys in the West". Definitely worth a gander.

[Dr. Zaius]

More militia showing up. Don't these people have jobs or do they live off the state they claim to despise?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Farms and ranches are slow in the winter, the hired hands can handle things.

[sexobon]

If we put up a Malheur Occupation Memorial with their names on it, maybe they'll be satisfied and go home.

[Griff]

A suggestion for next time, leave your guns at home, find a BLM facility, chain yourselves to it, write a coherent list of grievances, engage with your representatives and the rule writers in the administration. You lost us at armed take-over.

I've seen organized groups of people make incremental change by engaging with their government. It takes a huge shift from where we've been intellectually but a functional democracy demands that of us.

[Undertoad]

precisely

Nobody is interested in what their beef is or whether it's even logical or reasonable. We do know they made a bigger fuckup of things and acted more tyrannically, more irrationally, and with more planned deadly force than the government did.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Griff

A suggestion for next time, leave your guns at home, find a BLM facility, chain yourselves to it, write a coherent list of grievances, engage with your representatives and the rule writers in the administration. You lost us at armed take-over.

I've seen organized groups of people make incremental change by engaging with their government. It takes a huge shift from where we've been intellectually but a functional democracy demands that of us.

Yes, And obey the law until you can change it.

[glatt]

Only if it's an important law. For example, requiring pedestrians to push a button so they can cross at a signaled intersection. I'll push the button, but if the timing is off and I get there just as the lights are changing and I get a green, but no walk signal, there is no way in hell I'm waiting for a full cycle of the lights just so a walk signal will pop up for me 2 minutes later and I can be all legal about it. It's bullshit and I'll break that law in a heartbeat. Fucking prejudiced highway department.

So yeah. Taking over a federal building by armed force is going too far, but crossing a street with the lights is reasonable. Even if both are illegal.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

We do know they made a bigger fuckup of things and acted more tyrannically, more irrationally, and with more planned deadly force than the government did.

The Feds learned that it is a mistake to be rocking like Janet Reno.

I don't oppose breaking a law to make a point as long as you're willing to accept the consequences and nobody is injured by your actions.

[Pamela]

They should have called it Occupy BLM, never washed and lived in tents. Then that would have been a-okay.

[Griff]

if they left their guns at home