If they weren't white there'd be a huge pile of dead brown bodies now. Thank the Lord Jesus for that white skin! Yeehaw! — discoii
This is the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment - liberating a bird sanctuary from Big Gummit so that welfare ranchers can commit arson. — Landru Guide Us
You have to love gun nuttery. — Landru Guide Us
Did you just Sarah Palin him?You betcha
Likely that family having it's own anti-government Crusade will get moment in media spotlight and get the nation talking about them for a while. With that likely they will then leave the building. You see, if really the swat-teams would go in, the media wouldn't report it in this fashion as now.Let's see what these Yeehawists will actually do when the state decides to remove you them from the premises. Will they actually fight? Will the state gun down 150 white people? What would happen if they do that? — discoii
We both know what would have happened if 150 brown people went to some federal building armed with assault rifles and occupied it by force. — discoii
Actually a possibility. If they would be armed I know what definately would happen: Americans would buy more guns to protect themselves from "Armed black Militias". What the police would do depends on a lot of things.No, I don't know what would have happened if 150 African Americans converged in rural Oregon to protest someone's prison sentence. — Hanover
This is the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment - liberating a bird sanctuary from Big Gummit so that welfare ranchers can commit arson. — Landru Guide Us
It is a wildlife refuge that is only there because the ranchers back in the 1800's dug water ways thru the terrain to water their cattle and where cattle go, the birds will follow.
Could you please explain how they are "welfare ranchers"?
Committing arson is intentionally setting fire with the intent of destruction. Performing a controlled burn is very legal and replenishes the soil, giving it new life with the ash and providing a fire break (back burn) to remove the fuel in a defined space to stop a fire from spreading. Has anyone ever performed a controlled burn that got out of control? You betcha. Is everyone convicted of it? Hardly ever.
You have to love gun nuttery. — Landru Guide Us
Not all fools carry guns. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Granted, a similar response came out from the state during Occupy Wallstreet, but not during the Tea Party rallies — discoii
How does the Yeehawist National Front differ from the Yahooist National Front (think Gulliver's Travels, not has-been internet company)? — Bitter Crank
We don't have to like the crap the Established Order offers, but it is a waste of outrage to complain that a bunch of white guys out in the woods weren't greeted by a SWAT team. — Bitter Crank
So, equality in this case wouldn't be an equality of the lowest common denominator. Rather, all people deserve to be treated as if they are human, with the needs and rights that entails. — Moliere
The SWAT team didn't greet the folks in Oregon, not because all the protestors were white, but because, other than the local sheriff and maybe a deputy or two, there is no additional law enforcement there, much less a SWAT team. — Hanover
Yes, I'll take that bet. If they were black or Muslim and in a remote Oregon outpost arguing that some ranchers got unfair treatment, then there would not be a response greater than what we see here. It'd be confusing no doubt given the strange demographics for the region, but I don't see a dissimilar response.This rather misses the point. If some Muslim activists or Black Lives Matters took over an empty federal office with guns, want to make a bet they wouldn't be surrounded by SWAT and federal marshals with an ultimatum to surrender or die? — Landru Guide Us
There is a difference between protesting in favor of greater workers rights and physically blocking people from going to work. The first is legal, the second not. — Hanover
Do you really believe that this Oregon conflict will end with an air strike? — Moliere
I don't believe the complaint is that SWAT should greet the white people, but that it'd be nice to be treated equitably -- and this is just another example in a long list of examples to highlight racial disparity in the United States.
So, equality in this case wouldn't be an equality of the lowest common denominator. Rather, all people deserve to be treated as if they are human, with the needs and rights that entails. — Moliere
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