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evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

I have no problems with how they're handling this so far: the only problem comes if (like with Bundy before) they don't then arrest him later. But it is a reasonable approach - one that should be followed in all circumstances, not just white nutbars - to contain the situation and try to resolve it without violence. They shoulda cut the power already though.

Now, they leave trying to kidnap someone, you've got an imminent threat. But while they're holed up, starve them out instead.

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evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Turtle Sandbox posted:

Hopefully they actually get charged with poo poo and don't just walk.

Once shots get fired I don't think there's any way criminal charges aren't happening.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Epic High Five posted:

Dumbasses

If they'd just spat out a bunch of their magic words they probably would've gotten an escort

please tell me there's videos of someone screaming I do not consent or I waive all benefits

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Lycus posted:

Was Ritzheimer arrested, or is he still at the refuge?

someone has to guard the dildos

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002


yeah, they will be trying as hard as they can to make him one

glad it's one of them though and not one of the people arresting them

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Mr Interweb posted:

So these idiots actually got arrested?

and charged with a federal felony, they're going away for a long time

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Annointed posted:

Watch them get a slap on the wrist

one's already dead dude

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Dapper_Swindler posted:

so now that most of the leaders have been caught/killed. what will happen to the grunts at the compound. I assume they will try to either run or fortify themselves.

bagging the leaders like this is a really great way to deal with them: the leaders are suddenly gone and they now have the fear of actual consequences

I'd expect a lot to slink away

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

STAC Goat posted:

Yeah, if charges are already being pressed doesn't that suggest this was all planned and they were ready to make the charges? It sounds like they just took the opportunity of them all leaving the place together so they could isolate the key group from any other guns/hostages.

Yeah, I think they planned this to grab the leaders away from everything else safely.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

ozmunkeh posted:

I hope the delay was due to the feds getting all their ducks in a row and just before dawn we see a massive raid on the bundy ranch.

No. Give them time for people to come to their senses and get out.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

atomicthumbs posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/692183097421471744

now I feel sorta bad for ironically calling for blood, but Christ, what an rear end in a top hat

they're trying to claim he was shot after he surrendered so expect to hear about that for a while, hopefully everything is on video

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Hollismason posted:

Wait they've just been letting them drive back and forth from the compound?

Yep, but seems like it was a pretty good idea now given how easy it made it to grab the leaders.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Astrofig posted:

They keep saying opsec, the gently caress does that mean? Is that another word for their dumb 'movement' or whatever?

It's a way of saying don't put all the information the fbi needs to arrest them easily on the internet

well, not again at least

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Turtle Sandbox posted:

Id bet money the poster of that won't go die in Oregon.

I think he's one of the people there.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

SedanChair posted:

Hmm, where are the patriots flooding to the refuge? Where is the massive uprising?

they were going to come fight the tyrannical federal government, but then heard on the news that the tyrannical federal government wasn't going to let them and put their rascal back in the garage

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Yeah those people who wanted the fbi to do something about it, throw up roadblocks and tell everyone to get the gently caress out sure look foolish now that the fbi did something, threw up roadblocks and told everyone to get the gently caress out.

yeah the idiots armchair quarterbacking the fbi who would have gotten none of the results the fbi got last night were idiots

glad we agree

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

A Winner is Jew posted:

It would easily the best troll that Obama ever did.

Better than roasting Trump over the birth certificate poo poo while the Bin Laden raid was happening.

He wasn't roasting Trump over birth certificate stuff, he was roasting him over how hard it must be to make decisions on his reality TV show. Way better.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

SquadronROE posted:

Would there actually be any downside to rolling one of the FBI's Bearcats up to the militants and letting them plink away at it for a few minutes? I'm assuming those things can take rifle fire indefinitely, and if they get shot at they have some more legitimate charges on them.

Plus it may show those guys how useless their situation is.

they're not exactly short on things to charge these guys with, why put lives at risk (even a small risk) to add to them?

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Sovereign citizens essentially believe that law is a series of incantations of magical words. Seriously. You say the right words in the right order, endless power is yours, and the government only has power because they have mastered the dark arts of lawyerese. Whatever they want, there's some incantation that will get them that - and it didn't work last time because they didn't say it correctly.

What the words are and what the theory behind the words is varies wildly at times but it just all goes back to magical thinking.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

The best sovereign citizen word magic is their belief that birth certificates are actually berth certificates which is what is making you subject to admiralty court.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Mortanis posted:

I've not run into any hardcore admiralty court SovCits. The few I've talked to simply believe that you are born A Person. Stuff like belonging to the US, having a social security number, a driver's license, paying taxes, being under the authority of the cops is all just trappings of an organization you are forced into. A Person is meant to be be free and live and exist, while all the crap of being a citizen is thrust upon them, so they forswear all of the stuff the government foists on them to become their own little sovereign nation. No person is born into a government, they are born a free citizen and then forced into the system. This, then, makes them not subject to the laws (like driving with a license or whatnot) because they're not under the law once they've renounced their US citizenship, viewing themselves as something akin to expatriates or visiting foreigners who can only be compelled if a "crime" (specifically, where there is an injured party which they argue stuff like speeding and not having a license do not) has been committed between their island of citizenship and the US government.

I've never met any magic words folks, but there's a number of people that believe "we're born free, man, and it's bullshit that I'm subject to all this stuff I didn't opt into".

this is absolutely magic words folks, i say the appropriate magic words and i am immune to the law

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

As a Millennial I posted:

I'm not saying their complaints are legitimate. Just that pointing and laughing, or calling for them to be replaced by factory farms, isn't helping their persecution complex.

who cares, they're going to have a persecution complex anyway

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

A Winner is Jew posted:

#1: who the gently caress are the people he wants reinstated?

#2: MLK and Rosa Parks... famous for openly carrying firearms during their peaceful civil disobedience.

#3 who the gently caress is ppn

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

As a Millennial I posted:

Pacific Patriots Network, a loose alliance of oath keepers and III%ers.

What I'd like to know is why they use roman numerals for the "III%" thing.

That answers the other thing is been wondering too, why one hundred and eleven percent was a group name. Thanks!

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

NathanScottPhillips posted:

"Free to go" but they are all going to be charged with a felony. Apparently some of the other people that left have now been charged. There's no way out except by getting a felony or getting shot for the remaining few.

They screen everyone who leaves for the people they intend to charge, but not everyone who leaves gets charged. When they arrested those three leaving they let something like 6 or 8 people go home.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

A Winner is Jew posted:

96.4% of the people they go after would disagree with you there.

That statistic doesn't mean what you think it means. It means, of people charged, that many were convicted - but that just means that when they don't have enough evidence they don't charge in the first place.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Prester Jane posted:

I feel really bad for whatever public defender(s) draw the short straw and have to defend Ryan Bundy and the rest. They are going to be trying to pull all sorts of SovCit BS and a couple might even insist on defending themselves pro se.

I feel like whoever draws Pete Santilli will be the lucky one though, as I'm certain that Pete is singing like a canary and is all about cutting a plea deal. If that happens I doubt it will be a particularly good bargain for Pete though, he might be offered nothing more than a more comfortable concrete box to spend the rest of his life in


Comedy Opti9n; Peye's broadcasts are so damming that the FBI doesn't see any need to cut any deals, so they just throw the book at all of them and call it a day.

none of them have been charged with crimes that would come close to life in prison, and while the various crimes they have committed could add up to quite a while if served consecutively, they won't be

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Mr Interweb posted:

Oh yes, PLEASE do this, Cliven. :dance:

The guy gets off scott-free the first time around, and instead of counting his blessings, he decides to push his luck. Would have been nice if he was jailed two years ago, but hey, better late than never.

by "taking control" he means he is issuing strongly worded letters and instructions to the people left from the comfort of his home

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Smirr posted:

Haven't seen this posted / laughed at yet:

https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/697784228654616576

lol if true

ahahahaha amazing i can't wait for the infighting to begin

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

THEY'RE NOT VERY COURAGEOUS, LIKE YOU GUYS

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

UNLESS MY GRIEVANCES ARE HEARD IM NOT COMING OUT

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

lol

"you know scripture, what happened when paul and cyrus went to prison?"

"uh...*crickets*"

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

my first amendment rights to not pay taxes :argh:

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

"yahwe? who is yahwe?"

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

PT6A posted:

The name of God in Hebrew, maybe. See also: Jehovah.

I know, he clearly doesn't.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

oh my god how is it a good idea to remind him he's going to solitary

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

uh...since when did the romans pay for abortions?

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

LAVOY STEPPED OUT WITH HIS HANDS UP

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

I WILL NOT PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE

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evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

ahahaha now he's defending muslims he's going to be confusing all of his allies so much now

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