[Lurking Libertarian]

There's a WHOLE RAFT of ways you can "impede" a "Federal official", and it doesn't have to be by force and violence.

The statute the people involved in the Oregon standoff are being charged under is this:

18 U.S. Code § 372 - Conspiracy to impede or injure officer: "If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both."

You're aware that there's a lot of sections of U.S. Code 18?

Yes there are, and the DOJ is now charging Cliven Bundy with a whole batch of them: Cliven Bundy Complaint.

[kiryandil]

You left out the "intimidation".

That's subject to "interpretation" - the interpreation of the US prosecuting attorneys, and the US federal judges.

You don't look good as a Libertarian when you're supporting subjective government over-reach.

It can take years and many thousands of dollars to get out from under a malicious prosecution by a Troll government with a blank checkbook.

Are you truly in favor of that?

[kiryandil]

You understand that this REEKS of that Michigan case where the cop went back to the cop shop and pored through The Big Book of Laws with the local DA to find a statute to "get" the guy who was sitting in his car outside the cafe enjoying their Internet wireless?

They didn't have anything for TWO YEARS?

The British of the late 1700s would be looking on in envy...

[Scrambler Bob]

Just looked at the ‘complaint’

Dang, that Clive is a Bad Man.

The way they wrote it, I think of Josey Wales.

And Clive has ‘body guards’ to threaten the feds.

And ... ...