Can you imagine? ..If a band of armed Muslims seized a Federal Bldg. to protect "one of their own"?

[PatrickforO]

105. It's not a fair game. I never said that. Nor do I believe it.

However the fact remains that we have a large, maybe up to 20% of the population, group of heavily armed crazies that are basically right wing fanatics with strong racist, xenophobic and homophobic leanings. Couple that with the fact, yes fact, that these people HATE Obama and the government in general because they have been coached by hate-talk radio and Fox 'news' to hate the government instead of the oligarchs who are picking all our pockets.

Do you really want Obama to do 'something' that then escalates and sparks a misguided 'militia' revolution? A REAL modern Tea Party? Because that is what you might have. Go to some of the conservative blogs and see what they are saying.

And, no, my personal preference would be to roll in the tanks and blow these assholes to kingdom come if they even fired one shot. All I'm saying is that I think that approach, in this case, might stir up a pretty big beehive.

Sure I think it sucks, and yes I think it is sedition. But Obama, the feds and the OR government need to be very careful here because they are literally walking on eggs. Besides, if he does nothing but just surround the place like he's doing now, and maybe turn off the power, these people will get tired of being there and surrender far sooner than the huge amount of time Ammon Bundy talked about. Plus you and I know that the government - governments everywhere - have always been MUCH more tolerant of right wing shit like this than they ever have about left wing stuff.

See, because the left gets put down brutally because it generally wants policies that help people, and the oligarchs - our REAL corporate masters - don't even want us to think this way. So, yeah if it were people on the left, people of color, indigenous people, Muslims, you name it, they'd be getting 24/7 media coverage and there would be MASSIVE pressure for the government to act, which it would. As brutally as necessary. As ugly as necessary.

But not these guys. That's just the way it is. Lots of the people in our 'justice' system are sympathetic to these assholes, as well.

So, in this case, the smart thing to do is quietly contain the people.