Oregon: The occupiers are emboldened. And that's a big problem.

[haele]

12. Perhaps that's part of the line in the sand the Feds have.

Waiting for a local or environmentalist to get frustrated enough to go in and get injured or killed by the trigger happy yahoos when they confront them on the site. Right now, all the confrontation is being done in "safe" areas with a lot of press around - not only safe for the locals, but for the yee-hadists who can hastily retreat to their "base" and complain in the mirror about cowardice and traitors to their particular Libertarian version of the constitution.
Someone other than the "Tyrannical Gumment" can corner them in their compound, with a lot of press around, and they have to be able to control their rabid, selfish, stupidity - or they aren't going to look very heroic at all.
To use the Bundy bunch's "Wise Use" mythology -
Captain Moroni, the supposed hero who leads an army of abused citizens that takes down tyrants simply by opposing them through peaceful civil disobedience, quickly becomes General Moron, the dangerous whack-a-doo in charge of a gang of slack-jawed ignoramuses who hanker after the blood of anyone who "disses them".

Haele