Just listen to yourself. What kind of convoluted thinking is that?
Didn’t want to chance pissing off people by massacring them?
Why do you think they backed off? Because the 5,000 people showed em? It's kind of like when there is a high speed chase in a heavy populated area, sometimes you just back off for the good of the people. They backed off for the good of the people, not because they were scared.
Do you really think the BLM would open fire on the citizens of the U.S.?
What they did was to try to intimidate. When their bluff was called they left.
The fact that you used terms such as massacred and scared leads me to believe you watch to many cowboy and indian movies or you just have a vivid imagination.
The fact that 5.000 showed up to a pissing contest is real story.
They tried to do their job and uphold the law. The militia hillbillies came to try to intimidate. They are lucky the govt does not want to kill them. Same thing happened in the riots in Los Angeles. The police backed out because they knew if they stayed the situation would lead to the deaths of 100s to 1000s of scumbag Americans.
Nobody ever suggested or advocated violence, except Dirty Harry's goons who showed up with guns threatening the ranchers.
The Attorney General and head of the IRS are currently in criminal contempt of Congress...and you're surprised growing numbers of people are in open revolt? face)(*^%
If the government doesn't have to follow the law (or rather picks and chooses which laws to follow AND abuses those laws to "punish our enemies"), why should the people respect those same laws?
Have you read the Declaration of Independence?
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
This federal oligarchy from top to bottom has lost it's moral right to govern. The more people realize this, the faster restoration can begin.
Maybe it's because you're a partisan hack? :think:
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43 U.S.C. Section 1733, Subsection C:
"When the Secretary determines that assistance is necessary in enforcing Federal laws and regulations relating to the public lands or their resources he shall offer a contract to appropriate local officials having law enforcement authority within their respective jurisdictions with the view of achieving maximum feasible reliance upon local law enforcement officials in enforcing such laws and regulations.”
http://trac.syr.edu/laws/43/43USC01733.html
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What the federal oligarchy did was illegal, but this should hardly be a surprise coming from a government IS illegal.
Why is Bundy a scum bag?
The Governor of Nevada and the Sheriff of Clark County know full well that the Bundy family didn't break any Nevada laws.
The Fedzilla had absolutely no business intimidating and physically threatening the Bundy family, just as they had no business raiding Gibson Guitars a couple years back.
You gotta love the usual O-holes parroting DailyKos -- "you guys are lucky the feds didn't massacre hundreds of people!"
hno:
I disagree that the extreme left is growing at this point in time. But even if they were, there is a HUGE difference in the fringes nowadays. Back in the 60's and 70's, the leftist fringe WAS violent to varying degrees. Their desires to off the pigs is most like these lowlifes in Nevada. Now, the lefty fringes aren't violent, for the most part(of course their are exceptions, but violence isn't the goal). OWS didn't have people gathering with guns, threatening to blow the cops heads offs, like these lunatics in Nevada. The lefty fringes want to disarm.
Wrong, he was standing his ground against your overreaching Fedzilla.
Unfortunately, not enough people were awake back when your Fedzilla raided Gibson Guitars, otherwise there would have been hundreds on the rooftops doing the exact same thing.
Peaceful civil disobedience against an out of control federal oligarchy is patriotic.
Thanks for reminding everyone about your embarrassing ignorance of history, human nature and most importantly....
Why the founders in their wisdom gave Americans the 2nd Amendment.
So if the Fedzilla overreaches and shows up with guns, the people should respond with..."signs and chants!" face)(*^%
