BamaD
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact <Fast reply.> I started writing this post earlier today and took it down. I should have went with my first instinct. Some of the things I'm reading on this thread do not make sense to me. I'm sorry, but comparisons to OWS, BLM, Waco, and all of the others really don't matter much where I sit. It's not like it's some kind of competition or grading on the curve. It seems to me there is an issue because a bunch of people have decided to take over a federal building and they are doing it with a bunch of weapons. Last time I checked, that's not something that's considered OK. This is a problem that is disrupting the operations of the area, keeping kids from being able to go to school because of threats, and all of the other effects. This isn't a 'Johnny got away with this, so Billy should be able to do that' type of deal. That's a horrible mentality to have rather than for these people to have to be accountable for what they are doing. And, they haven't shot anybody yet, so no problem? In other words, basically, what they are doing isn't illegal enough and we want to make sure there's a felony? I'm not saying go in there and blow them to Kingdom Come but I find it silly that they say they are doing it for people who have wanted to distance themselves from them. It's probably the exact measures that they are using that made the Hammonds want to stay away from being aligned with them in the first place. [sarcasm font] I'm all for the salty snack and prune juice idea. My friends better be the ones with the toilet paper. [/sarcasm font] When I reference Waco and Ruby Ridge I am pointing out the realistic concern these people have that the government will do something violent, particualarly since the government has such a shakey position. I am not saying that since people got away with burning down a large portion of Baltimore in what some black leaders acually called a revolution that these people should get a pass on trespassing. I am saying that if you thought that the Baltimore rioters should be given room to destroy and these people should be gunned down are applying a double standard. And keep in mind that at the Federal level the same people who supported "room to destroy" are the ones who will decide the level of force that comes into play here. They have established the standard are they going to do it or get tough because here they would only be shooting white people? If I am setting the rules and have one set on rules for one group of people and another set of rules for a different group I am exhibiting bias. This is much different from saying that because so and so got away with something in 1970 someone else should get away with something now. There is a call on here to treat trespass more harshly than arson, looting, and murder. Don't you see a problem here? And as long as they remain peaceful do you want to treat people more harshly for having guns that we do for misusing them?
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Government ranges from a necessary evil to an intolerable one. Thomas Paine People don't believe they can defend themselves because they have guns, they have guns because they believe they can defend themselves.
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