The Oregon Militia Is Turning Out To Be Its Very Own Worst Enemy

[Generic Other]

In what is starting to look like a genius move, the federal government and local law enforcement have mostly kept their distance in the two weeks since an unknown number of out-of-town, rag-tag militiamen stormed the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and vowed to stay until the federal government turned over its land to local ranchers.

So far authorities have declined to confront the men or to put the squeeze on them by restricting movement to and from the refuge or even to turn off the electricity, which might help draw the men out of the compound in the freezing January days.

But the lack of confrontation by federal officials has not only prevented it from becoming the next Waco or Ruby Ridge but transformed it into a peculiar and mundane sideshow, a one-sided standoff where the militiamen's days are marked by visits from wacky outsiders like pretend judge Bruce Doucette coming to sniff out "evidence" against the federal government and from disgruntled community members ready for the men to leave already.

By leaving the would-be revolutionaries to their own devices, authorities have given them enough rope to hang themselves.



More on the morons at this link:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/bundy-standoff-enters-third-week-of-ridiculousness

[Gman]

1. Terrorists the world over are ashamed of them.

[99th_Monkey]

2. "By leaving (them) to their own devices, authorities have given them enough rope

to hang themselves? really? What does that even mean? They already have enough rope to hang
themselves 10-times over, but instead of hanging themselves, they are freely advocating the spread
of armed insurrection against the Federal Government, conducting meetings with groups of ranchers
telling them to tear up their contracts and stiff-arm the BLM for any payments owed for grazing fees.

They are also promising to "back land-grabbing ranchers up, with guns-ablazing, as needed".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027545577

And what does "hang themselves" even mean??? They have already broken enough Federal laws to
choke a herd of cattle, and are openly promulgating armed sedition against the Federal Gov't.
I fail to see how this is "clever" of the FBI, nor is it "avoiding another Waco"; it's enabling an armed
seditious insurrection to grab public land for private interests, for free, for the taking at the point of
a gun.

It's fucked up, is what it is.

[gratuitous]

10. All really good questions

The humor value of these polyester pioneers was long outstripped by their patent obnoxiousness. Their continued presence in a sensitive wildlife refuge degrades the ecosystem a little more with each passing day, as they take something meant for everyone and use it for their own wasteful and selfish purposes.

[Wounded Bear]

3. They are not the "Oregon Militia"....

they are invaders from outside the state.

[Generic Other]

6. True, but I didn't write the headline

Can we call them ill-bred nesters? Nester - A squatter who settled on government land, usually to farm.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I understand...

I'm not from Oregon, but I support them in their dissatisfaction with the term.

No personal harm meant.

[Generic Other]

12. I am from Washington and I get your disgust with their being self-appointed vigilantes in our names

We Westerners circle the wagons when outsiders try and mess with us!

[Wounded Bear]

13. Me, too...

Kent.

[groundloop]

4. Sorry, IMO there should have been a blockade and no electricity from day one

No direct confrontations, but they definitely should not be getting free electricity (paid for by taxpayers). Likewise, all access in or out should have been shut down. And NO MEDIA (which would deprive them of the attention they seek).

[JEB]

5. Criminals advertising their crimes. It is way past time

to frog march these asshats to prison. Felons that should never again be allowed to possess firearms.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. It's not the Oregon Militia, it's a bunch of out of State fuckwads from Nevada and Arizona and such

They are a militia that has invaded Oregon.

[Generic Other]

9. Nesters to use old west terminology

Nester - A squatter who settled on government land, usually to farm.

Nesters squatting in a bird sanctuary. Probably cowbirds and cuckoos as they tend to steal other birds' nests. Oh the irony!!!

[Wellstone ruled]

8. One of the so called Militant Ranchers in Nevada just had his

case against the BLM and Forest Service over turned by the 9 th district court in favor of the BLM and Forest Service.

[Quixote1818]

14. Protests to have them arrested are also popping up all over the country. nt

[Downtown Hound]

15. I'll praise the federal government's response to this

when they have done their job and made Americans safe from these terrorists. And that's going to take a lot more than making them look like idiots. You think these yahoos care if they look like idiots? If ignorance were a tattoo, they would get one on their forehead. In the meantime, they continue to hold an innocent Oregon town hostage and rampantly destroy property. No way am I going to praise that outcome as a stroke of genius.

[underahedgerow]

16. Told you so.

I'm always right about these things.