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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI/ATF apparently doesn't give a rat's ass about Domestic Terrorism in our face
Now they are using the Malheur Refuge as a national stage for white supremacists to promulgate hate, armed insurrection, and land-grabbing Federal property at the point of a gun.
"KrisAnne Hall, a prominent national face of the so-called patriot movement, will visit Burns on Monday to conduct public workshops supporting the point-of-view of those occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Hall, a Florida attorney and radio talk show host, is scheduled to lecture from 5-7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Harney County Fairgrounds. Her assistant said she will cover two topics: sovereignty of the state and the constitutional limits of the federal government's control.
Hall is an outspoken critic of the federal government who supports privatization of federal lands.
In a YouTube video posted Jan. 5, she defended the tactics of Ammon Bundy and his group of armed protesters, who seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 15 days ago and say they will not leave until the land is turned over to local landowners."
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/oregon_standoff_talk_show_host.html#incart_river_index
Rex
(65,616 posts)Try any other political type or skin color and you will see a most violent reaction. The obvious double standards could not get any more obvious by now...OWS was a peaceful protest against a government-corporate wrong and was treated like a terrorist movement.
Future leaders of America learning about how the PTB hate protestors and treat them like criminals.
Future leaders of America learning that the PTB are scared shitless of them and they love it.
postulater
(5,075 posts)Maybe I'll move in. It seems like a good time to stake a claim.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)I'm glad they arrested at least one. Every damn time one of those yahoos leaves, he should not be allowed back in, should be arrested and have his phone confiscated. He can wait for his "one phone call" until he sees a judge.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)but they are refusing to do so, which i their fuck job. If they were doing their jobs, it
would look more like this:
a) cut off all access (in & out) to the Federal facility and lands involved,
surround the place with wide perimeter if necessary.
b) cut off all utilities, jam the cell phones & computer access, cut off water, electricity, etc.
c) wait them out and arrest them when they leave, or use tear gas, as needed to force the issue.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)being served at the moment to send the lineworkers in, according to local commenters
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Water lines are no doubt underground, and the federal gov't has engineering drawing showing
where they are located. Jamming cell phones is not rocket science.
Are you really convinced that LE authorities can't figure this shit out?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)they've been dandled by the state since the Palmer Raids
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)like KrisAnne Hall should get the same penalty.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)It will calm down.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)taking Federal employees security badges to hack into their computer accounts, including their SS numbers
and credit card information, tearing down public fences, stealing Federally owned vehicles, harassing local
Burns residents while heavily armed, etc.
Tell me, who else could do these things on national TV with impunity, and simply get away with it, for
16 days now?