I don't remember Martin Luther King ever holing up in a federal facility, armed to the teeth. Maybe I missed it.
Ammon Bundy’s tactics, dare I say probably recommended by his father Cliven, are not tactics I agree with. MLK would not have done it.
But as the old saying goes ‘stuff happens’ and this is the ball of wax “We the People” have been handed to sort out.
Caving into the authorities and ending the occupation like the PPN group wanted to do doesn’t sound right to me.
The four people don’t want to come out and be arrested by the FBI. They have made their decision for better or quite likely worse.
So what can the rest of us do to help them in a way that is morally sound and follows conscience about non violence in the MLK-Gandhi tradition.
That is the notion I am suggesting.
Show up unarmed enmasse and walk into the FBI siege line is what I suggest as an alternative to suiting up with tactical gear and long guns to face the authorities in a bloody fight that you’ll lose outright for starters and in the long run because public opinion won’t end up being on your side.
Unarmed people triggering FBI violence would do a lot more to change minds about this situation that angry posturing with weapons.
The FBI side already fired the first shots and committed the first real act of violence in this situation, not Ammon Bundy and Company.