Hundreds of Armed Right-Wing Militia Members Take Over Federal Building

blatham wrote:

Don't laugh. This is serious **** these patriots are up to here. They have been driven damn near into the deprivations of severe poverty by government. You can see this easily just in noting their $70,000 pick up trucks (fancy wheels and manly truck-doodads on top of that).

So by using the language you use here to belittle the fine people holed up in Oregon, what is you are hoping to do? Entertain your audience? Maybe get some of those precious thumb's up? You and your like minded fellows keep doing that like the people you are talking about come here, read your posts and go back all flummoxed about how "them darn liberals are talkin' 'bout us again on the inter webs."

I think the only reason you share these stories and commentary is to show everyone how superior you are to the people actually doing something instead of just bitching about stuff on the net. How dare someone be so principled as to actually DO something?! They could sit at home and arm-chair general it all over the internet instead. Everyone knows that accomplishes stuff... :rolleyes:

How dare someone be so principled as to actually DO something?

I think it safe to say that there are plenty of people who are drawn to the profession by the promise of wielding power not available to the average citizen. I suspect most of these folks turn out to be bad eggs, and most of the cops who are bad eggs are so because of a desire to exercise power.

They are under intense scrutiny from a generally hostile media, and reliably hostile liberal politicians and "community activists."

Watch the video below.

I don't have a handgun, but I got loaded last night.

How dare someone be so principled as to actually DO something?!

I found a source that tabulates jihadist and right-wing attacks. The list includes the San Bernardino shootings, but the jihadists are still behind by three in the post-9/11 body count:

http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks.html

I found a source that tabulates jihadist and right-wing attacks. The list includes the San Bernardino shootings, but the jihadists are still behind by three in the post-9/11 body count:

http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks.html

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is considered the #1 domestic terrorist threat by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The concept of Property Rights and private ownership of property are concepts that they wish to abolish. This comes from the Marxist doctrine that is at the center of their core beliefs. Their new "Holy Grail" is designed to create vast expanses of wilderness zones that will not just regulate human usage, but will be completely off limits to everyone from venturing into such areas even to just enjoy the beauty of nature in its natural surroundings.

Their record includes the $12 million arson at Vail Resorts in October, 1998, the $1 million arson at Boise Cascade's NW Regional Headquarters in December, 1999, the $1 million arson at the United States Forest Service Northeast Research Station in Irvine, Pennsylvania, on August 11, 2002, and over 3 dozen other serious actions.

In 2002, the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for an arson attack causing more than $700,000 in damage to a U.S. Forest Service research facility in Irvine, PA. After the fact, it issued a communiqué suggesting a willingness to take action:


"While innocent life will never be harmed in any action we undertake, where it is necessary, we will no longer hesitate to pick up the gun to implement justice, and provide the needed protection for our planet that decades of legal battles, pleading, protest, and economic sabotage have failed so drastically to achieve."

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced a 65-count indictment against 11 people on conspiracy charges for attacks that had been claimed by the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.

UPDATE

[One example:]

Lacey Phillabaum pleaded guilty to conspiracy, arson, and use of a destructive device that destroyed the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001. The university spent $7.2 million to rebuild the center. On 19 August 2008, Lacey Phillabaum was sentenced to three years in federal prison and three years' probation.

Both Chelsea Dawn Gerlach and Stanilas Gregory Meyerhoff have admitted and pleaded guilty to some of the $20 million worth of arsons committed between 1996 and 2001 by a Eugene-based cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as "The Family" (a la Charles Manson).....

Chelsea Gerlach pleaded guilty to 18 charges in five separate attacks. After being arrested, she apologized for the harm and fear created by her actions, which she said were motivated by "a deep sense of despair and anger at the deteriorating state of the global environment."

"When I think about the damage I did to you my heart is heavy," she said. "I acted as a bully and a tyrant, and I am ashamed that I tried to strong-arm social change."