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Hate to Burst your bubble, but we are Helpless. What the Government wants, the Government gets, and We the People have financed Our Undoing...Best we can do is shut our faces and be good lil Sheeple
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: akira131
There is a long list of very questionable actions by people in that group. Like I said though.... many people tried to warn them but unfortunately they would not listen. They trusted the wrong people.
This ^^^. Their grievances were legitimate. Their solutions were not. And are not. Even if they had "taken" the refuge, and limited their demands to a pardon -- or a commuted sentence -- from the president for the Hammonds, I could have supported that civil disobedience. I think they would have gotten far more support if they had stuck with their original mission which was the unjust dual sentencing for the Hammonds. Just put a laser on that one injustice...
Instead they've gone off on several tangents, and some are pretty self-serving, and many are just a serious misunderstanding of natural and Constitutional principles. Who is coming up with this stuff? Is this what they've come up with themselves? Is someone unknown feeding it to them? I have felt many times that someone is deliberately sabotaging the legitimate issues for the craziness.
But the issues are just so big and widespread, and the Bundys and the Hammonds and the Standoff and the FBI and the BLM are all just parts of a much greater problem. I have seen discussions about learning from the many many mistakes of this protest, and refining their methods, to make sure nothing like this can happen again. I hope they do. I'm so tired of excuses, and so tired of defeatist attitudes, and so tired of the whining. We know what the problems are. Let's put aside our petty bickering, get together on the big issues and the big principles that affect us all -- such as ALL lives matter -- and find solutions... make solutions. We are not helpless unless we choose to be.
I think this whole thing is getting bent out of proportion as a thread that was posted a few days ago with OP...
...saying that without a doubt Finicum was murdered in cold blood...
If what she says is true, this was an ambush... and intended to be a massacre. Cold blooded murder.
They weren't even on "federal land" when they were Ambushed. That within itself Proves The government never had any intention of being Civil. Personaly? Bundy's Bunch never had a leg to stand on, and they made Fatal Errors. Threatening the Government isn't the Answer....Never make Threats
originally posted by: akira131
originally posted by: SPECULUM
originally posted by: akira131
a reply to: MALBOSIA
I am as well. Which is why I lean towards no one being completely honest. Like beyondtruth said, everyone here has an agenda.
5 people can witness the same event 5 different ways.
but he either had a gun or he did not. seems to me there is a lot of mis/dis-information
Doesn't matter whether he had a gun or not, His second Amendment Assured him of this. Fact is, they were shooting at them before he even left the Vehicle, Which ended any way of defending himself in a court of law. They never intended for him to Survive, they murdered him in cold blood, because he had a beef with them
I somewhat agree with this. which is why I said the LEO's should have protested themselves by standing down. They did not and now are responsible. But killing someone in cold blood is walking up and killing them without provocation. There was plenty of provocation here. You can't start waiving a gun and expect to get sympathy when someone shoots back and that is basically what they were doing at this refuge. They knew better than to expect the feds to do nothing. Of course they wanted an armed confrontation but not before they were given the psychological angle they needed first which the occupiers gave them in troves.
If you really want to show the world the boot on your neck you do so without arms and be ready to die for it. Let them beat you in the streets while you sit passively taking it. Then everyone sees the emperor's new clothes. You go in making demands and stating intent to die, then you will get what you asked for from the feds but not before they demoralize everything you stand for. So that no one else can do such a thing with anything resembling popular support.
originally posted by: SPECULUM
They weren't even on "federal land" when they were Ambushed. That within itself Proves The government never had any intention of being Civil. Personaly? Bundy's Bunch never had a leg to stand on, and they made Fatal Errors. Threatening the Government isn't the Answer....Never make Threats
originally posted by: akira131
originally posted by: SPECULUM
originally posted by: akira131
a reply to: MALBOSIA
I am as well. Which is why I lean towards no one being completely honest. Like beyondtruth said, everyone here has an agenda.
5 people can witness the same event 5 different ways.
but he either had a gun or he did not. seems to me there is a lot of mis/dis-information
Doesn't matter whether he had a gun or not, His second Amendment Assured him of this. Fact is, they were shooting at them before he even left the Vehicle, Which ended any way of defending himself in a court of law. They never intended for him to Survive, they murdered him in cold blood, because he had a beef with them
I somewhat agree with this. which is why I said the LEO's should have protested themselves by standing down. They did not and now are responsible. But killing someone in cold blood is walking up and killing them without provocation. There was plenty of provocation here. You can't start waiving a gun and expect to get sympathy when someone shoots back and that is basically what they were doing at this refuge. They knew better than to expect the feds to do nothing. Of course they wanted an armed confrontation but not before they were given the psychological angle they needed first which the occupiers gave them in troves.
If you really want to show the world the boot on your neck you do so without arms and be ready to die for it. Let them beat you in the streets while you sit passively taking it. Then everyone sees the emperor's new clothes. You go in making demands and stating intent to die, then you will get what you asked for from the feds but not before they demoralize everything you stand for. So that no one else can do such a thing with anything resembling popular support.
originally posted by: akira131
a reply to: OveRcuRrEnteD
Ok. I don't know that I have much more to add. But I'll ask these questions... is this what we really want? People are acting like this is Lexington and concord but is it really?
Are we ready for a civil war? because if we continue this path that is what we will get. I have yet to see a million people March on any capitol in peace by showing force in numbers and solidarity. Do we really believe this will end well?
Can we not see the psyop we are playing into? I mean seriously is it just me????
We have yet to put together any kind of mass peaceful protest to work outside of the crooked system yet we are going to base our "new revolution " on something we can't even come together on as being right???
Idc if I get flamed santille and his people make me sick. Time will tell who the moles are as they will get either lighter sentences or let off completely. Man.... I don't know... we haven't even tried mass protest and refusal to work with the system but we can go ahead and just start this?
Am I crazy? Show me the truth show me how we have done the leg work to go to this place now when we haven't even tried to educate the masses. These threads are all over. The "calls to arms" are many but how is it we are doing right by our country by giving up and fighting each other when we have yet to put together any concerted effort at real activism. I can't see how this isn't an usurpation of the truth/freedom movement.
Obviously I don't hold a popular view on this. But to me it's like a teenager wanting independence and when he doesn't get his way instead of proving he is a responsible adult he just runs away from home and takes the family car and all the cash he can find.
originally posted by: akira131
a reply to: OveRcuRrEnteD
Ok. I don't know that I have much more to add. But I'll ask these questions... is this what we really want? People are acting like this is Lexington and concord but is it really?
Are we ready for a civil war? because if we continue this path that is what we will get. I have yet to see a million people March on any capitol in peace by showing force in numbers and solidarity. Do we really believe this will end well?
Can we not see the psyop we are playing into? I mean seriously is it just me????
We have yet to put together any kind of mass peaceful protest to work outside of the crooked system yet we are going to base our "new revolution " on something we can't even come together on as being right???
Idc if I get flamed santille and his people make me sick. Time will tell who the moles are as they will get either lighter sentences or let off completely. Man.... I don't know... we haven't even tried mass protest and refusal to work with the system but we can go ahead and just start this?
Am I crazy? Show me the truth show me how we have done the leg work to go to this place now when we haven't even tried to educate the masses. These threads are all over. The "calls to arms" are many but how is it we are doing right by our country by giving up and fighting each other when we have yet to put together any concerted effort at real activism. I can't see how this isn't an usurpation of the truth/freedom movement.
Obviously I don't hold a popular view on this. But to me it's like a teenager wanting independence and when he doesn't get his way instead of proving he is a responsible adult he just runs away from home and takes the family car and all the cash he can find.
Put up video of fireworks and short sound bites of protest and "murica murica join the revolution". Show me 1 million of the 320 million in this country stand together for ANYTHING for 2 days and I'll join your movement. Expect people to believe this is anything but a psyop purpatrated by those who want to kill the movement yet give no real mass consensus. ... blah...
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: TrueAmerican
So is the dispute between the protestors and the locals over?
originally posted by: OveRcuRrEnteD
a reply to: beyondtruth
Evidence in this case? psshh. Look at what's being presented as evidence so far(controversial video, hearsay and two shaky but mostly corroborating witness statements) and tell me there is going to be any solid evidence of anything unless or until it comes out in civil court.
But, do you honestly think all of those LEOs just stood there (except for hero cop) with their guns in their hands as that truck attempted to go around the roadblock?