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In reply to the discussion: BUSTED: Guess What The Bundy Militia Was Doing While They Were Not In Gunfights With The FBI [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The largest factor by far for the lack of blood is that this is being handled by federally trained operatives according to federal procedures.
This is in comparison to murders by dangerously incompetent and unsuited local thugs who react to "outliers" and challenges to their authority with violence -- usually supported by similarly dangerous and biased law-enforcement cultures. I say "outliers" because many people are killed by cops who are of their own race but who labeled their victims as..."those" people, not "our" people. Outliers. Outside the worthy group to be protected.
You know, the feds not only have overwhelming advantage, they also have lots of time, and, as already said, they really don't want another standoff bloodbath that would feed extremist ideology for decades to come.
As for the feds doing nothing, that's so obviously not true.
They are allowing interviews with journalists villifying government and glorifying crime. They are allowing various other civilians in (including armed militants!), communications out (including coordination of prospective crimes with other local ranchers!). And so on. I'm not making a joke. They could have blocked all that, isolated these schmucks completely. But they didn't and aren't...