I agree.
Law Enforcement (including local state and federal) decided to escalate it and end it at whatever cost.
To this point Bundy and the people with himhad threatened no one with harm.
I also believe that they had been given safe passage to John Day as a ruse to lure them out to that remote road.
I also hope and pray...and demand...that the legal proceedings focus on just what you have said.
These people focuses a light on things that are critical and important for anyone who loves this nation, its constitution, and the liberty if affords.
We must make suire their sacrifice is not in vain.
[[I also believe that they had been given safe passage to John Day as a ruse to lure them out to that remote road.]]
If this truly is the case, then this fact alone escalates this to another level- especially in light of the fact that, as you point out, no violence had occurred AND the fact that the group was going to meet peacefully with the sheriff
[[We must make suire their sacrifice is not in vain.]]
Unfortunately it will be in vain as not many people will bother looking into the facts, and the ones that do will be labeled ‘conspiracy theorists’ or ‘anti-gubmint wackos’ and the public will be fine with either of those two conclusions and will simply accept whatever the police state happened after their ‘investigation’ - Had this been a black man who was shot like this however, it would be a whole different ballgame
Thanks for this.
My question is where were they going and why.
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This event is an attempt by our government to win in the court of opinion what they cannot win in a proper court.
US government occupation of lands in the western states is completely unlawful. The treaty is clear; the arable lands were under private use, and that use was to be respected.
There are no western lands other than mountain ridges to which the US government has any defensible claim.