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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Is it sedition or rebellion? It looks like rebellion to me, even though it may be misguided.
I wish...
Nobody is egging anyone. I know these people. I know the Bundy’s. They truly believe, as I do, that they are in the right. There is a war on the West and we are living it everyday. The Federal government, under the banner of public lands management, is taking our freedoms away every single day. If you knew the battles we face everyday, you couldn’t possibly say what you just said. This was inevitable. And America’s about to see how vicious this government is. I believe it will turn violent. And so be it.
Is the MSM covering this story?
The lily-livered majority did not support the War for Independence in 1776 either. That’s why George Washington’s troops lacked shoes to wear in the snow at Valley Forge. The cowardly majority considered the Patriots to be madmen and many went to their graves as loyalists to the British throne.
Are you involved with these people? It’s not a setup. But the ending is inevitable and if it’s what the American people need to see what their government thinks of them and what they are prepared to do to them, so be it.
When this country has a chief executive who routinely ignores the constitutional limits placed on his office, who cozens favor with foreign despots to the detriment of his own people, who repeatedly uses the force of his authority to deprive his own citizens of their legal rights, and who evinces not even the slightest remorse for his devotion to tyranny, then the "essential compact of the United States" has already dissolved.
All true, but for what?
300 “rebels” winning a firefight would give Obama carte blanche to impose nationwide gun control via Executive Order.
It’s *precisely* the sort of easily-squashed crisis that he would love to see.
Reichstag Fire.
I’m sure king George felt the same way, and I bet the British media agreed with him.
Not good. Not good at all.
The militia:
-Was here before the nation was founded
-Sent representatives to the state legislatures to vote on the Constitution.
-Ensured the Constitution was amended to place specific liberties beyond the purview of government.
-Approved the Constitution.
-Fought in all America’s wars.
-Will still be in America long after the current form of government has collapsed.
Yes, you could easily see a Branch Davidian Waco re-enactment again, this time in Oregon. Federal over-reaction is expected...
...but there is no sudden federal land crisis/issue. Federal treatment of land has varied little today from how bad it was 40 years ago.
It’s the claim of a sudden “crisis” that reeks of Reichstag Fire.
Know when you are being duped.
It's not as if it hasn't been brewing for a hundred years...
I just returned from a trip to Nevada today. In that state the Federal Government own more than 80% of the land mass. That's bad enough, but the problem is they manage it too.
Actively.
The bureaucrats can come up with a million problems to be solved and easily another 10 million jobs to be filled.
No.
“Full Story on What’s Going on In Oregon†Militia Take Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge In Protest to Hammond Family Persecution
“Full Story on What’s Going on In Oregon†Militia Take Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge In Protest to Hammond Family Persecution
These morons need to leave that building ASAP.
If this is armed sedition (which it arguably is, even if in a good cause), why was it OK to let the BLM nuts in Baltimore commit mayhem? After all, “it’s only property.”
In Baltimore it was private property. In Oregon, a building otherwise abandoned for the winter is STATE property. An insult to the STATE can not stand. /S
He doesn't have the will or the guts for it.
“Full Story on What’s Going on In Oregon” Militia Take Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge In Protest to Hammond Family Persecution
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