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Ford_Prefect

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3. Although I deeply want them arrested and out of the refuge there are women & children on the site,

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 15, 2016, 10:19 AM

Jan 2016

which could preclude using rubber bullets and other nasty devices, much as those might seem deserved.

I wondered the other day if the low level B-52 flight over South Korea could maybe have been re-directed to Eastern Oregon, just to make the point about who really has the biggest gun. I suppose that's better material for an Op-Ed Cartoon: along the lines of the great big bird taking back the Refuge.

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Dare them. DetlefK Jan 2016 #1

Although I deeply want them arrested and out of the refuge there are women & children on the site, Ford_Prefect Jan 2016 #3

Nonono. No threats, no forewarning, no show of force. That's what they want. DetlefK Jan 2016 #7

No!!!! atreides1 Jan 2016 #2

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