I have a possible fix for the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff

[passiveporcupine]

33. I live in a rural area, and I agree

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It's not like Portland. And they can't do a lot of damage where they are, in terms of getting innocent citizens killed, but they are terrorizing the small town of Burns.

They can stay there for a long long time, as they already have proved, and that is their intention. So if the Feds can't do anything without starting a fire fight, the only way I see of resolving this is for the people...the citizens of Oregon to stand up and say enough.

And the only way to do that is passively, or else they too will cause a fire fight.

So no resistance...no weapons...no signs and shouting. Just a passive sit-in.

Other than a cop spraying mace onto a crowd of protesters sitting on the ground, have there been other incidents of a passive sit-ins resulting in protesters being killed?

Usually sit-ins are pretty peaceful, and while people are arrested, seldom are they injured (and as far as I know, not killed).

How could the militants legitimately attack protesters without losing their game, which is totally covered in the news. Every little thing they do is covered in the news. Their popularity (and unfortunately, they have a lot of it) would go downhill fast if they were suddenly seen as the bad guy by people who side with them now. And the public would be totally enraged if they hurt or killed anyone.

I'm not sure this would work, but other than something like this, we will just have to sit and wait it out, and I'm not sure that is fair to the people of Burns. I think the militants (some of them, probably not all) are willing to keep this up for as long as they can get away with it.