Posted on 01/03/2016 2:50:08 PM PST by Mariner
"If three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him a bedlamite—a fit subject for a mad house."
—George Washington to Henry Knox, on the subject of Shays Rebellion, February 3, 1787
You have to give Captain Daniel Shays this: When he launched his armed sedition against lawful authority, he at least was invited in. Overnight on Saturday, in an obscure corner of the Oregon wilderness, and contrary to the law, and in defiance of democratic authority, both federal and local, another act of armed sedition was committed. It seems to me that this ought to be a bigger story than, say, the belated prosecution of Bill Cosby, or whatever most recently came out of the mouth of the vulgar talking yam. In a small place in Oregon, the essential compact of the United States of America has come apart.
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This is not likely to end well.
It would be BIG news if black lives matters were the group doing it.
Rebellion against laws and the Constitution? Are they finally going after Obama?
This is the wrong hill to die on.
Charles P. Pierce is a drooling imbecile.
I think they are Lefty agents meant to create a Reichstag Fire, I wonder if the Feds made a secret deal with them to put them up to this.
Which lefty gave a (*&& when the Wisconsin State House was occupied for weeks and Wisconsin Legislators were assaulted and threatened?
Haven't black gangs taken over large stretches of Chicago and Baltimore -- and other US cities? But that isn't news.
FBI crime statistics for 2015 are going to be interesting!
I don’t recall the lamestream media ever running any articles calling the far left wing’s Occupy protests sedition.
It’s likely a setup. 90+% chance that an FBI undercover agent is egging-on behavior so that Obama can show the USA old-white-guys-with-guns behaving badly.
Double bonus points if the FBI-guy can get the duped-white-guys to spout something both religious and erroneous.
I see, when libs do it, like Occupy wall street, it’s civil disobedience. When we do it, it’s armed sedition. As an elected official out here in the West, I am seriously thinking of joining them. I am active in the Transfer of Public Lands movement and it’s only going to get stranger..and uglier. We are living in very, very interesting times. It’s not for the faint of heart. But we are truly watching, and making history.
If they took over a building in one of the least populated counties in the country ? I doubt it. In the case of a riot or big protest in a city is a completely different matter, then the police have to react pretty much immediately.
Yup. Seems like Reichstag Fire, part Zwei.
its only “sedition’ when a Dummycrat is the prez, and a dumb one too
This is much smaller, but the list of grievances seems similar.
Is the a Federal Law Enforcement source that can take on 100 armed and determined men in the Oregon sticks?
Or, will the governor call out the National Guard?
LOE insists on at least 3-1 odds, preferring 10-1. I don't think the alphabet agencies can put a thousand men in the field. They would need military help...and that's where it gets interesting.
Especially if another 2-300 rebels show up.
Yeah...don’t join them. It’s a setup.
FBI crime statistics for 2015 are going to be heavily edited by the regime.
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