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In reply to the discussion: Question , Who do you suppose is making the final decision on dealing Bundy & squatters in Oregon? [View all]99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)45. Actually, "other incidents" are now being planned, incited & actively organized
precisely because of the FBI's kid-gloves treatment of the Bundy Terrorist Gang.
Please see:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7558026
... Which includes a description of what the Armed Bundy Gang are actually NOW doing, including:
2) using the Malheur sanctuary (a Native American sacred site with
many artifacts at risk) as a National TV platform to spew their arrogant & hateful anti-Federal Gov't
nonsense into our living rooms every night. Just today, I read they have deliberately bulldozed an
area known to contain NA relics.
3) "putting out the word" to like-minded armed lunatics with cell phones and Gov't computers,
to "join them" in their armed insurrection, seizing Federal land at the point of a gun & inciting
other ranchers to refuse to pay their grazing fees and tear up their contracts with the BLM,
NONE of this ^ crap should be allowed to continue, because FBI & LE knows full-well how to
put a stop to it NON-violently, yet they sit on their hands 30 miles away in a base-camp near the
Burns airport doing nothing except 'monitoring' the situation. Here's what they could/should be
doing'
a) cut off all access (in & out) to the Federal facility and lands involved, especially roads, and
surrounding the place with wide perimeter to insure no-one goes in or out..
b) cut off all utilities, jam the cell phones & all computer access, cut off all water, electricity, etc.
c) then, simply wait them out, arrest them as they leave, or use tear gas, as needed to force the issue.
NOT doing these three things is actively enabling this RW white-supremacist land-grabbing of
Federal land & buildings by a bunch of armed thugs, and it's just wrong; and it's pissing off Oregonians
(including myself) big-time. Even OR Gov. Kate Brown has gone public with her chastisement of
the FBI for it's inexplicable inaction, bordering on complicity, while local residents of Burns OR
are being daily harassed and intimidated by armed insurrectionists. It's just bizarre beyond belief.
There's no excuse for this kid-gloves treatment of domestic terrorism. none.
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Question , Who do you suppose is making the final decision on dealing Bundy & squatters in Oregon? [View all]
Stuart G
Jan 2016
OP
it can't be the bginning because there have been so many similar occupations in the past.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#15
He probably has the ultimate word, but just delegates his situation managers in the FBI to deal with
world wide wally
Jan 2016
#2
They are doing infograthering all the time. Probably have an undercover person
Jim Beard
Jan 2016
#3
I'm so tired of hearing of the standoff described this way: either violent action or
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#4
I think to a bigger extent than we perhaps realize law enforcement sympathizes with the militias
Fumesucker
Jan 2016
#5
As a person who worked with many LEOs, I can attest to the truth of this. It's the job
Nay
Jan 2016
#30
I trust that you're not conflating my post w/ 'authoritarianism' or summary execution of Bundy jerks
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#63
Can you cite laws which allow the seizing of accounts of those who have not even been arrested?
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#14
Arrested people with evidence collected and when that is abused good people oppose it and do not
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#19
Look at the War on Drugs. Law enforcement seizes money from people all the time, without charges.
backscatter712
Jan 2016
#61
Cut off food, for sure. Water's on-site, but if they can cut off power...
Lizzie Poppet
Jan 2016
#23
If anybody at all has made a decision (an open question), it was the wrong one.
Paladin
Jan 2016
#22
I think he's being proved right as long as other incidents don't start up elsewhere
flamingdem
Jan 2016
#37
Actually, "other incidents" are now being planned, incited & actively organized
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#45
IMO it's with President Obama. Also, I bet there is a lot of discussion on how actions might
RKP5637
Jan 2016
#27
Good point. Could be an endless talking point if anyone is killed or injured.
flamingdem
Jan 2016
#38