About Oregon

[branford]

1. The military will not be called in to deal with a bunch of fatigue-wearing yahoos

occupying an otherwise empty cabin in the middle of nowhere, Oregon in the middle of winter. There has not been anywhere near a breakdown in public order, and there's no need to even opine on the legality of such an act.

Not only are our various and ample domestic law enforcement officers more than capable of dealing with far, far worse than this, use of military troops will confirm all of the worst anti-government, black helicopter, "there coming to take your guns" suspicions of anyone to the right (and many to the left) of Bernie Sanders in the USA. The very suggestion is right out of the fevered minds of the paranoids at Infowars.

All that would be accomplished is encouraging a thousand occupations of government buildings, or worse, more events like the Oklahoma City bombing, the possible impeachment of the the president, and likely a President Cruz or Trump (who might use such a imprudent use of the armed forces to justify similar actions against demonstrators on the left).