These people should be swept up nets....

"Revolution is not a tea-party."

When you take up arms against a government, which these people were doing, there are supposed to be consequences....

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automatic weapons and wear face concealing masks. Kind of like SWAT.

Terrorism has little to do with what weapon the terrorist uses, or whether they have a mask or not. It's about threatened and actual violence by a non-state actor aimed at a state. Not recognising the state and doing what these folk are doing definitely falls into the category of domestic terrorism...

edited to add: I just realised yr the same person who a week or so ago said you kind of support Bundy and those extremist RW militias..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4815319

we should have sent helicopter gunships and tanks to crush these teabagger-NRA types, a bunch of people flamed me. Now Harry Reid is calling them terrorists but will they be dealt like terrorists and thrown in Guantánamo?

Walking around armed to the teeth, asserting power because they know no one wants to escalate.

Lets just hope these kinds of thugs aren't on the rise thanks to these methods succeeding.

just like any other terrorist.

Let’s see if our government goes after white terrorists with the same zeal they do going after brown and black ones.

Sometimes they call themselves one thing, sometimes another. Sometimes they espouse different things, like the murderous elderly bastard in Kansas who thought he was murdering Jews but murdered three other innocents instead. But they have certain things in common and they are connected.

Let me repeat: They are connected. If nothing else, the Internet and social media make that a foregone conclusion by now.

Rachel Maddow was all over this issue last night. It is about @#$%! time that someone like Harry Reid said it out loud.

It costs us taxpayers money for the BLM to round up his cattle and then let them go. And then for the security, and cops who had to keep an eye on the home grown terrorist.

I know his name is not Al. But he's about as smart as Al.

But that operation was cut short, so I guess that amount would be somewhere between $0 and $1 million that he might or might not be expected to pay.

These yellow bastards were going to let women and children be used as human shield.

My husband keeps looking for a reason for this guys behavior. He is crazy, no other reason. He grazes his cattle on Federal land and refuses to pay the fees, I have no sympathy for him. When you are self-employed, and your business is having trouble, for various reasons, much of which in farming and ranching is because of climate change. That is not the fed's fault, it is because the world is changing, your business climate is changing, the climate is changing. Water is scarce, especially in Nevada and pointing a gun at someone doesn't change that. I hope I don't sound like I am babbling. But his world is changing and that is not the fault of the Fed's. He is just scared shitless, him times 2,000 could make this a scary scenario.

A little boy who won't grow up and play straight with the big boys because it's hard to do. It's just not fun to do corny things like pay your bills; fun is watching your money grow.

I'm glad you have no sympathy for him at any rate.

I want to make it clear, I have no sympathy for this guy. He should be paying his bills, including grazing fees. I just sometimes think these guys are afraid because their world is changing - that includes climate change. So they respond with a gun and blame everything in the federal government. I actually hate guys like that. You need to drive through western Kansas and see the lush fields of corn. This is semi-arid country and corn is a high water crop. They grow it with lots of irrigation. That type of farming is NOT SUSTAINABLE-okay. They are in lala land. They think global warming is not real-they come up to me and say I don't believe in global warming. I tell them it is not a religion-it is based on science. When their livelihood becomes doomed-they are going to become very afraid, and arm themselves even more. I think sometimes they could become dangerous at that point. Anyway-we are on the same page, I don't like them and you don't like them. I just see them up close.

The local media is telling the truth about the situation. That he is a right wing nut that has a LONG history of causing trouble.

In addition, the idiots showing up are being depicted as crazy extremists who want to think they can kill the gubmint.

Newsflash. Shoot one of these cops and he will get a funeral with a flag draped coffin.

You get shot and you will NOT go down in history as a martyr for the cause like Horst Wessel. You will be associated with the likes of Charley Manson.

Armed, extremely dangerous, and flaky as all-get-out.

Whenever citizens dare to stand up and oppose the government, whether on Wall Street or in the desert, it is right to label them terrorists.

What if those same citizens do not recognize a legitimate government, and refuse to pay the same fees and taxes as everyone else, aim weapons at law enforcement, and choose to place children in front of them as shields?

Did any of that happen during the Wall Street protests? Seems to me that conflating the two (regardless of whether its disingenuous or not) is an accurate example of bias (at best).



(However, I do realize that many people will melodramatically sing any false equivalency that may be imagined to better validate a striking level or irrational thought...)

You can always tell when he's snuggled between elections.

Glenn Beck has been dismissive of what he calls the right-wing Occupy Wall Street crowd for supporting Cliven Bundy. But Harry Reid took it to a whole 'nother level.

Harry Reid may have compromised a bit too much in the Senate...BUT he can verbally slap the crazy right.

It's about fucking time that somebody outside of DU noticed it.

I played as long as I could, but it gets old after a while

Or some other incapacitating agent. Then collect them, incarcerate them, and prosecute them with taking up arms against the United States.