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(73,812 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)here in AZ, we have "constitutional and open carry" so they're not breaking any laws.
mopinko
(73,812 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)and there are FBI snipers watching them very closely.
spanone
(141,866 posts)fuckem
Skittles
(172,223 posts)FUCK THEM
GoCubsGo
(34,958 posts)Good Gawd.
AggressiveCanary
(53 posts)I like that one.
I wonder if they have steak.
GoCubsGo
(34,958 posts)At least, he's the first one I heard using it.
They might have steak, but I suspect that their diets consist of white bread, potatoes, and processed crap.
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,884 posts)doc03
(39,119 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 14, 2022, 04:19 PM - Edit history (1)
for their protest. What a bunch of losers.
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doc03
(39,119 posts)MAGA losers.
orthoclad
(4,729 posts)Worked with the People's Convoy when they assaulted cities.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)wait, where's everybody else?
Pathetic morons.
Roland99
(53,345 posts)lmao!
CanonRay
(16,203 posts)It's spelled right.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,527 posts)... they were good for Germany too.
DFW
(60,321 posts)I wish they would tell the Trumpanzees to disarm and disperse, give them 5 seconds to comply, and then take out each one with a gun with sniper fire if they don't. it's only a matter of time before some of these nut cases turn out to be a deadly menace to the public nearby, who have every right to expect law enforcement to protect them from armed thugs.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Put bluntly, it ought to have happened at the Michigan Capitol two years back. We'd not be near where we are if it had.
"Kill one, warn one hundred."
DFW
(60,321 posts)But I agree fully.
We don't bring heavy firearms to a debate. They do. They have now started demonstrating that some of them intend to use them.
Even one is one too many.
shrike3
(5,370 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)You would have FBI agents shooting citizens for doing something that's legal under AZ law?
I understand your frustrations, but shooting law abiding citizens is not the answer.
DFW
(60,321 posts)Even in open carry states, unprovoked threats to the public and against law enforcement are not perfectly legal. What these people were doing goes beyond peaceful bearing of arms. It is a direct threat against the Bureau.
Driving a car is perfectly legal in Arizona. Driving a car into a crowd of people is not. Driving a car in a reckless, seemingly threatening manner is not. It is one thing to be prepared in case of trouble. It is quite another to be the instigator of that trouble. It doesn't take a PhD in criminology to distinguish between the two. If a guy is carrying an assault rifle on the street in downtown Phoenix, no assumptions can be readily made. If he steps into an elementary school with it, assumptions CAN be made. These clowns were not casual passers-by whose paths just happened to converge in front of a Bureau installation at the same time.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)The law is the law and here in AZ, open carry is legal, I live here in AZ, this is not unusual to see and suggesting the FBI give them 5 seconds to disarm, which again, would be unlawful, or they will be shot would be murder, especially if all they're doing is protesting.
I wouldn't worry too much about those jackwagons, I'm quite sure the FBI is keeping a close watch on them and are ready for any attempted attack upon the building.
DFW
(60,321 posts)I'd say there is a good case for a violation of A.R.S. section 13-1202, "threatening or intimidating"
This would be the SAC's judgment, of course, but in light of recent events in Ohio, this would be fresh in his/her mind.
Again, this was not a coincidental gathering but a deliberate confrontation. If I were SAC and saw that outside my building, knowing the threat was directed at me or my subordinates, I would not automatically assume they meant no harm. Especially these days.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)the Feds have no jurisdiction over them, they are on public property, not Fed. property, this is for local police and they can't do anything other than watch them, cops can't even make them show ID, AZ is not a stop and ID state.
As long as those jackwagons remain on public property protesting, they are well within their right to protest and there's nothing local police or the Feds can do about it.
What part of they're not breaking the law do you not understand?
ShazzieB
(22,732 posts)Here's how one Arizona law firm explains it:
https://www.salwinlaw.com/criminal-defense/assault/threatening-or-intimidating-ars-13-1202/
IANAL, but I think DFW may have a point.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)but you can bet the farm that they were ready to move in in force if they did break the law.
This whole convo started because one member here wanted the FBI to get on a bullhorn and order them to drop their weapons and if they didn't comply withing 5 seconds, then they would be shot,
which would result in the agents being charged with various crimes and the resulting unrest it would cause and it would give the repukes in Congress a golden gift just before the mid terms.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)It needs only the color of law for immediate action, and the vainglory of the 'militia' can be relied on to provide pretext for deadly force.
This is going to have to be broken. A state which cannot enforce and maintain a monopoly on legitimate use of violence for political purposes is not a state at all, merely one more competing interest.
"Mad or sane, rebels must hang. Your Excellency knows this."
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)so the Feds have no jurisdiction over them, it would be up to local police, and they're not going to do anything except watch them, because again, these jackwagons aren't violating any state law.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Besides, the point, as it so often is, is simply to do it, and make the enemy catch up to what's happened.
Federal officers emerging under arms from the building, commanding dispersal, will not be resisted by local police, and if resisted by the insurrectionists, can break the resistance.
For make no mistake, a body gathered under arms to menace a government facility and personnel are engaged in insurrection.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)If armed Feds came onto state property, IE public property and dispersed them by force, then they can be arrested and sued civilly for violating their civil rights, it has happened quite often with the Feds/officers being reprimanded and or fired and criminally charged.
And I can pretty well guarantee that if the Feds came out to state property and tried to disperse them, the Phoenix Police would intervene and tell the Feds to get back on their own property and leave law enforcement to local police, the Feds are not very well liked here in Phoenix.
Heres a question, suppose the protesters refused to leave PUBLIC PROPERTY, then what? The Feds can't arrest them, they don't have jurisdiction.
I know, i live here.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)And no, local police are not going to shoot it out with Federals. That's the kind of big man down the bar bluster that needs to be punctured.
It's the immediate effect which matters, consequences can be managed, even made to go away, when they are incurred in the government's interest.
What is necessary is to show these people nobody's playing anymore, that their cosplay ends in blood. Takes the fun out of the thing. Weeds the amateurs out, leaves just a few ugly clots of hard core exposed without a trace of cover.
It's going to have to be done sooner or later, and the longer it is put off, the worse will be the head it comes to.
"Violence solves very little, but what it does solve nothing else can."
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)that's ridiculous, but the local police here in AZ would tell the FBI agents to get back on their property and leave local law enforcement to them and the Feds couldn't do jack shit about it, just like they can't do jack shit about the protesters on public property, which these jackwagons are on.
The FBI can't even get ID's from the protesters, and neither can the local cops as long as no laws are being violated.
DFW
(60,321 posts)A.R.S. section 13-1202
It is somewhat vague, and could be interpreted in a number of ways, one of which could be that the armed thugs "meant no harm." But the congregation of similarly armed people in the same place blaring the same message does not exactly inspire a sense of security in the ones inside the building. The incident in Ohio is certainly fresh in the mind of every senior Bureau installation chief, and the armed gang outside had to know that, whether or not they feigned ignorance about the incident.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,153 posts)they're NOT ON FEDERAL PROPERTY, the Feds have no jurisdiction over them, they're not breaking any AZ law.
roamer65
(37,965 posts)WarGamer
(18,761 posts)JanMichael
(25,725 posts)Just to let them know what's up if they want to fuck up.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,376 posts)We used to help them back in the 60's with medicines to deal with their anti-psychotics incidences.
maxrandb
(17,466 posts)or, if you want to see what is wrong with this shit, light a box of firecrackers and toss it near them.
Emile
(42,722 posts)a new level stupidity!
BSdetect
(9,048 posts)HAB911
(10,495 posts)
Vinca
(54,166 posts)Big, bad tough guys strutting around with their weapons. Young women Trump would deride as fat skanks. Old people who are living off demon socialist Social Security. What a bunch.
Owl
(3,770 posts)ShazzieB
(22,732 posts)AntiFascist
(13,753 posts)roamer65
(37,965 posts)My money is on the people in the black helicopters with sniper rifles.