re: #81 goddamnedfrank

I wonder if part of the reason the FBI is letting this shit show run on is that it constitutes a ready made honey pot, luring in every right wing seditious asshole in the country. Either way I certainly hope they’re taking the opportunity to put everyone who contacts the Bundy’s offering material support on a watch list. Scratch anyone in their network and you’re liable to find a plethora of NFA weapons violations.

I would like to believe that but, after the seemingly free pass everyone got at the Bundy Ranch, I find it very hard to believe. For some reason, it really, truly appears that the Feds are intimidated by these guys. (Not intimidated on a 1:1 basis; we all know that the Feds could roll in there and overtake them any time they wanted.) But intimidated in a larger sense, that they’re working with kid gloves because they’re afraid to kick off a larger conflict.

But the thing is, if they don’t go in and put an end to this nonsense (preferably without violence but put an end to it one way or another), it’s just encouraging them and emboldening them to do it another time, in another place. After Bundy Ranch, and now Oregon, the line has to be drawn. The Feds have to put their foot down and say, unequivocally, “No more! Your acts are criminal and they have serious consequences and you WILL suffer those consequences now.”