I tend to sympathize with their general cause, however when they first started I wondered how their outcome would fair when compared to Waco or Ruby Ridge. I wondered if they had some end game strategy where there would be no bloodshed and come out on top with more support nationally than when they started.
I really think it could have been done better than the last of them bartering against odds that guarantee a loss.
They would have done much better if they had taken over the facility with no arms (not so much as a baseball bat or knife), stealing no vehicles, damaging no property, invited the media in, made several speeches stating their claims and goals, and peacefully leaving after about 3 or 4 days.
and peacefully leaving after about 3 or 4 days.
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Guarenteed free out if all they leave behind is empty wine bottles and used condoms.
I pretty much agree with what you’re saying, but I’m not out there either.
The difference would have been that in the spirit of civil disobedience I would have had people staying and when the authorities chose to tighten the noose with roadblocks and so on unarmed people would have approached them like civil rights protestors approached Southern law enforcement in the 1960’s.