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I see no reason to deploy troops against citizens. This is crazy behavior. If the government wanted something they should have first negotiated, then gone to court. There should never have been any use of force or threat of force. This is the same craziness as Elian Gonzales and Waco.

Apparently, having armed forces generates the need to use them. We need to take away all of these paramilitary police and agencies. I recently read that even the IRS has a SWAT unit. Really? Why? They can’t whistle up a sheriff or the FBI?

If the government wanted something they should have first negotiated, then gone to court. Well, to be technical about it, they DID go to court. More than once. Won every time. This was their effort to enforce the court order. What I'm wondering is whether (a) next time it'll be the US Marshals enforcing the order, and (b) whether they might not consider a less confrontational, but more effective, way of inducing compliance. Like for example getting a monetary judgment for the $1M in fines - which is not dischargeable in bankruptcy - and simply levying on his bank accounts. That can be done entirely electronically, with no flash point of direct physical confrontation. Or they could obtain a charging order on the proceeds of any sale of his cattle, and take that order to every one of the beef processors in the tri-state area. The processors would then be legally obligated to remit payment to the Feds, and not to Bundy. I don't understand why they haven't gone that route already, to be honest.