What the failed wing-nut revolt really tells us
FRIDAY, FEB 12, 2016 07:56 AM EST
GARY LEGUM
... The long phone conversations had something for everyone. There was the irritation of listening to the occupiers complain about the possibility that they might have to surrender their guns and go to jail for, you know, breaking one or more laws, as if they didn’t truly understand the mechanics of civil disobedience ...
And there was genuine pathos in the voice of David Fry as this sad and desperate young man, the last holdout to surrender, urgently tried to convince Fiore and others that seemingly every conspiracy theory he had ever read on the Internet was indeed true. His father, meanwhile, was telling media outlets he was worried his disturbed son would rather commit suicide than give up ...
You could hear it coming for hours. First there was the disbelief that no one, not undercover Oath Keepers posing as FBI agents or Rush Limbaugh in L.L. Bean outerwear and a surplus Desert Storm Humvee, was coming to rescue them and kick off a revolution. There was the dawning awareness that they might just be a bunch of sad-sack working stiffs huddled in the miserable cold in the ass end of nowhere, soon to be held accountable for the various laws they had broken ...
n their shock, they lashed out. They complained that the ACLU wasn’t out there standing up for their First Amendment right to protest. They bitched that people would have cared if they were Black Lives Matter activists. They wondered why no one cared that Obama “has billions of dollars for gun control” — a sentiment that is a) untrue and b) the occupiers somehow didn’t realize might be made desirable to a lot of people by the example of their own little armed camping party ...
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/12/the_bundy_brigades_delusional_last_stand_what_the_failed_wing_nut_revolt_really_tells_us/
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