Discussion: Report: Protests Rage in Burns Oregon Over Militiamen Standoff

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Watch the video you inbred retards.

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'You can’t tell from the video cuz it’s all jittery"

“No, Cletus, the drone was perfectly stable…that’s your meth making it jitter…”

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when you wish upon a star…

sometimes your death wish comes true…

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How are the militiamen supporting themselves through this extended hissy-fit? I mean, most normal people can’t just walk off the job and go hole-up in public building for weeks without going bankrupt…I don’t buy the “salt of the earth” bit about these guys…more like trust-fund squatters.

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Federal agents shot a white supremacist who tried to run them over. He was not innocent.

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A whole lot of wasted time and energy.

Ironically enough, if the “militia” somehow got the Federal Government to sell the land, it’d be bought by corporations and rich, private citizens. In which case, the ranchers would lose complete access to the grazing lands.

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Freepers are going full tilt on this: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oregon/index?tab=articles

And we wonder how we got Crump and Truz.

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500 in attendance = 30 full sets of teeth

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So now a mob of 200 or so paranoid, armed, right-wing dumbfucks have showed up? This calls for Plan B. Evacuate the area, seal off all entrances and exits, and air-drop pallets of Pabst Blue Ribbon and meth. Give it a week, then call in the biohazard team to clean up the bodies. Install a few cameras first, and you could pay for the whole operation by selling the footage later – the ultimate “reality show.”

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This is the not-talked-about-enough part of this. Politicians in Utah, for instance, sound just like these assholes, “Want our land back, Federal over-reach blah blah blah.” But they want the land back from the feds so they can sell it.

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Freepers are still a thing?

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Don’t bother to read it’s all BS, we know why the jerks want the land, they’re used to taking whatever they want but, cattle need to be kept in posted pastures not in wildlife areas. Pretty soon they’ll put derricks up and then the ranchers will act shocked!!! PUT THEM AWAY, WE DON’T NEED THE TREASON THEY SPEW EVEN IF THEY HAVEN’T A CLUE!

You’re in Utah? I worked my last two years before retirement in Ogden and remember all the horseshit being spread around then about the state taking over federal lands. The Utah politicians even come up here to Montana to try and convince the state to join them (the large majority here reject the notion of the state assuming control). It seems like butt hurt ranchers are everywhere in the west.

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if that had been anything at all like an “ambush” they would all be dead. Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed, Lavoy was even allowed to drive off from the stop because they didn’t want to hurt anyone.

If anything, Finicum’s run was a truncated OJ Simpson event. His willingness to give up all that All-American success he enjoyed and drive his Envoy to Oregon to join the “standoff” was outrageous enough, then his stupid gunslinger fantasy got him killed.

Died of a theory. We’ve seen that before.

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Some of them were carrying pictures of Finicum and some had firearms.

Hey, you don’t bring a knife to peaceful assembly gun fight.

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I can’t lay my hands on the article–maybe someone else here can–but apparently a rather large percentage of them are on disability or some other form of government assistance (and that doesn’t even include using foster kids as sources of government income and free unpaid farm/ranch labor).

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“Keep yur gubmint hands of’n my Medicare!”

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I’m not sure how ‘practicing’ a white supremacist he was, as there’s not many non-whites to supreme over in the part of Idaho where he lived (or anywhere in Idaho). He was, however, a practicing abuser of government-funded foster child services programs, treating the children sent to his ranch as nothing more than an itinerant slave labor force, and a practicing cheater in his authorized suborning of public lands for his ranching operation’s cattle to graze on.

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@Avattoir

There’s this.

Finicum and his wife, who had 11 children, also took in foster children, which Finicum told Oregon Public Broadcasting was his main source of income. He told the radio station that more than 50 boys spent time on their Arizona ranch in the past decade.

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