[Vendome]

trapped_in_LA:
No point in poking a bear with a stick. Maybe the geek would quietly walk backwards, out his front door, with his hands up.

I think many of us are outraged at the amount of power the police state weilds these days. From overzealous tazing, to confiscation of private property(no crime but, you have to prove you deserve it back) and these ridiculous SWAT engagements.

Some of us feel like we could make a difference by taking a stand, even though we know it would end badly for us, most likely.

Things have to change the state has to be reigned in and their powers restricted, so innocent people or people who have committed no crime are not endangered.

Not their persons, property or lifestyle.

[trapped_in_LA]

My point is that beating your chest here on a message board is easy but most people have too much to loose to throw their life away fighting the jack booted thugs in black call SWAT. I have yet to see it happen except in two very publicized cases, Waco and Ruby Ridge. Did it stop or change anything? No. Why? Because they were isolated cases that the MSM protrayed as a bunch of nut jobs that desired to be killed. If it happened again with someone else it would be the same, no change.

People on Freerepublic need to wise up, you aren’t going to get things changed by making these “cold dead hands” type of statements that I see over and over, it only confirms what people outside of this community think about us, “just a bunch of rednecks and nut jobs”. The guy in Oregon did the right thing, go peacefully and then sue the bastards into the ground when you get out. He’s alive to fight the only way we can, in the courts.