They are NOT protesters [View all]
By some accounts there are as many as 150+ heavily armed people at the site that have expressed the desire to stay as long as it takes (no jobs?) and shoot if they "need to"
they are creating the "need to" by illegally occupying public buildings and vowing not to leave...while heavily armed).There are 11+ buildings that were closed to the public at that site. Based on public domain accounts from the site, they are unlawfully occupying at at least 3+ of the buildings.They have mounted an armed person in a fire watch tower at the site as well and man it 24 hrs a day.
Reporters were allowed at the site but barred from entering buildings for "operational security".
These are a bunch of nutjobs playing army and trying to start a conflict.
They even talked about bringing in spouses and children which is a clear attempt to have non-combatants at the site to have human shields or increase the opportunity for collateral damage if a breach is necessary.
These people are terrorists and there is no doubt in anyone's mind that if these were anything other than white males they would already be dead.
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