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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 08:41 PM Apr 2014

Cliven Bundy And Pals Planned To Use Women As Human Shields...and brag about it!

Oath Keeper Richard Mack told Fox News in an interview today that if the Bundy Ranch standoff had continued, or if federal agents started shooting, they planned to put women in front of the men in order to generate sympathy and publicity.

TPM:

“We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,” Mack said in a Fox News clip pulled by The Blaze. “If they are going to start shooting, it’s going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.”

SPLC has much more on Richard Mack:

One Oath Keeper is longtime militia hero Richard Mack, a former sheriff of a rural Arizona county who collaborated with white supremacist Randy Weaver on a book and who, along with others, won a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the Brady Bill gun control law in the 1990s. "The greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our federal government," Mack says on his website. "One of the best and easiest solutions is to depend on local officials, especially the sheriff, to stand against federal intervention and federal criminality." Mack's views echo those of the Posse Comitatus, which believed that sheriffs are the highest law enforcement authorities in America. "I pray for the day that a sheriff in this country will arrest an IRS agent for trespassing or attempting to victimize citizens in that particular sheriff's county," Mack said in a video he made for Oath Keepers.

According to Mother Jones, Mack is active in the Tea Party movement as well as militias, and also worked with the Gun Owners of America to defeat any and all gun safety measures in the works after the Sandy Hook shootings.

If being a patriot means behaving like Iraqi soldiers under Saddam Hussein, I'll choose the opposite approach, thank you. As a woman, I have to wonder why on earth any women would follow behind these disgusting people and agree to put themselves out there as cannon fodder. That question is probably best left to experts, because it just boggles my mind.


http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/cliven-bundy-and-friends-planned-use-women

#arrestericparker (the guy taking aim at federal officers)
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Cliven Bundy And Pals Planned To Use Women As Human Shields...and brag about it! (Original Post) WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2014 OP
Freeze all their bank accounts. ... JEFF9K Apr 2014 #1
I am arguing on antoher board about that and hollysmom Apr 2014 #5
All non-violent measures should be tried. JEFF9K Apr 2014 #6
Sounds about right. Like most of the fucking redneck nutbags I've known-- TwilightGardener Apr 2014 #2
To quote Warner Bros: muntrv Apr 2014 #3
He thinks using women as shields would generate sympathy? Ilsa Apr 2014 #4

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
5. I am arguing on antoher board about that and
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:24 PM
Apr 2014

the person there keeps saying that they are not allowed to do it? If companies can put leins on your bank account why can't governments?

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
2. Sounds about right. Like most of the fucking redneck nutbags I've known--
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 08:43 PM
Apr 2014

(and I know a few, sadly)--cowards when the shit hits the fan.

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