Discussion for article #222374
I wouldn’t want those knuckleheads in my own neighborhood, but if they’re not breaking any laws there’s not much the legal system can do. How about a campaign of public mockery? F’rinstance, signs that say “Go play army somewhere else” or “Don’t you people have jobs?” They’re certainly mockable.
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If they were: Muslim, black, Mexican, Middle-Eastern in the America’s skewed view of the world, or just about any feriner, they would be called terrorists. If they are white they are patriots! Yee haw, 'Merica loves them some anti gubmit patriots don’t ya know!
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Don’t know about you, by I wouldn’t volunteer to picket the area against gun toting militia nutballs.
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Nor I. I don’t think they’d shoot anybody but they’d get in your face about patriotism blah blah and it would become tiresome. I was thinking road signs. Great big road signs, that’s the ticket.
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The problem is when you have zealots with guns, things inevitably get out of hand. And this group has obvious stability issues to begin with. I say let them alone as long as they are not breaking any laws. Wait them out. They cannot stay there forever.
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If they are stopping anybody on public roads and demanding identification, it’s hard for me to believe there’s no law being broken.
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Nor would I, but a response from a REAL army might have a salubrious effect on these dirtbags.
They all think that if they went up against the government, it would be like Red Dawn.
In fact, it would be more like Bambi Meets Godzilla.
I wonder if the 4th Infantry’s busy this week. An exercise in rounding up armed idiots without killing too many of them might be an excellent lesson for both sides.
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JAIL" WELFARE QUEEN" BUNDY until he PAYS US!!!
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I remember that discussion from the other day, but there hasn’t been any corroboration that it was going on. You get a lot of rumors in these situations. The Vegas paper sent someone out to ask around and there didn’t seem to be anything to it. If they had, of course it’d be completely outrageous and I’d say drone strikes were in order, but they seem to have a sense of what’s going too far.
If the militias are stopping people at check points they should be moved out by the National Guard. If they violate Nevada law send in the National Guard. Otherwise If Bundy wants to feed and water his army out in the desert I guess he can. He will go broke before those low lives lift a finger to help.
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Yeah, considering the things said in public between the Oathkeepers and some of the militia nutters under a “General” who called the former “deserters” and suggested they be executed for leaving the fold, I’m not sure that I find the idea of people picketing these loons a safe proposal.
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It is illegal to point a weapon at someone except in fairly narrow circumstances and point them at Federal employees is certainly illegal so there’s at least that.
Then there’s interfering with the public’s unfettered access to travel by setting up unauthorized “checkpoints” so there is a rationale for the governor to act, he’s just gutless. If the good people of Nevada don’t run this incompetent out of office then they fully deserve the chaos that will inevitably follow.
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I think stopping traffic and refusing citizens entry onto public right-of-ways is probably illegal.
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So the Bundy Backers are essentially the equivalent of an inner city gang.
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Thanks for the update. I’ve been waiting to hear more about this.
It’s called “obstruction of justice”.
He hasn’t paid the grazing fees due for years. There are court orders going back 20 years that the Bureau of Land Management is attempting to enforce.
So, if you have come to the Bundy Ranch to “protect him” you are obstructing justice. Period. End of discussion.
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A great movie reference. One of my favorites. Haven’t seen it in about 30 years though.
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Isn’t this the same Clark County Sheriff that wouldn’t do anything before this, even before local residents started voicing their concerns? What are the chances this sheriff will step in to protect the public now? Being on a non-partisan ballot doesn’t mean the guy doesn’t have an ideological or political bent. It just means they don’t have to identify it on the ballot. He wasn’t very helpful when the Feds came in originally, was he? Time to throw this sheriff out of office if he can’t get the job done. It was Bundy, probably knowing the views of the County Sheriff, that said he would only deal with this guy and not the Feds. For the sheriff to do nothing, knowing Bundy is not only breaking the law but having outsiders come in and put the public at risk, is unconscionable. And this weak ass governor could do something if he wanted to…but like all Republicans, he’s thinking more about his party than the public he was elected to serve.
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Their state legislature sowed the wind with gun-fondler friendly laws. Now they get the mandatory whirlwind. Granted, they were likely expecting a better-groomed whirlwind . . .