[Pecos]

"a lot of dead officers"

And a lot of dead peasants, as well.

[rjsimmon]

We're done. We are going to lose that battle that day.

And you believe you would just have lost that day? A blood bath is coming. Make your choice which side you will be on.

[Fido969]

But, the citizens who “outgunned” you, held their fire.

[voicereason]

A lesson that needs to be repeated during the next over-reaching incident and everyone after that.

Heard from a guy who’s neighbor works for the ATF that one of the driving decisions for the BLM to back down is they there were several Navy Seals that recently left the service showed up amongst the crowd.

[NEMDF]

Could spin the headline to “protesters faced possible ‘bloodbath’ at Bundy ranch occupation by BLM”.

It would be a different twist/perspective, right?

[circlecity]

"With so much firepower in so many hands, a small incident could have set off a bloodbath and left nearly two dozen officers dead."

And don't you forget it.

[Psalm 73]

"...and the I-Team has learned that order went all the way to the White House for approval."

Hmmm.....

[Kartographer]

We were one gunshot away from Civil War.

Charley Waite: "Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying." Open Range (2003)

[Darksheare]

No kidding?
Perhaps it should be a lesson to you goose stepping bozos in government to keep your paddy fingers off?
No?
Too easy?
See you at the next government thuggery boys..

[BuffaloJack]

Typical cops.
No dogs to shoot, so they shoot cows instead.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[NTHockey]

My comment #12 - Prophetic? No, just common sense.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3149801/posts

[Balding_Eagle]

One person in the crowd even asked Jenkins (Sgt Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) if he was ready to die.

"I don't know his name. He was wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey. I'll never forget that," he said.

Better never forget that question. These Constitutional showdowns are coming again, and spoken or not, that question will also be hanging in the air again.

I recommend studying what happened in 1775. Do you really want to die being on the wrong side, as the British soldiers were?

[DBrow]

“If you just have a backfire, somebody pops a firecracker, then it’s over.”

It took only three firecrackers at Kent State to get things rolling.

[tumblindice]

” ... their fingers poised just above the triggers of powerful weapons.”
Unlikely—journo-histrionics unless the people were ready to pull the trigger on the feds.
Molon labe baby.

[Fear The People]

Unlike at Ruby Ridge or Waco where the feds got to murder citizens indiscriminately and without consequence.

Never again.

[Noamie]

Dude seems really focused on “how many dead officers” there would have been.

That’s all I need to know.

[DJ Taylor]

Yes, this was a near disaster for the American people.

We must remember, but not for Timothy McVeigh in 1995, Bill Clinton would never have been re-elected in 1996, and this “Bundy” incident came very close to being a crisis from which the Democrats could have greatly profited in the coming mid-term election.

I can almost assure you, if such an incident doesn’t spontaneously occur between now and November, the Democrats will create one.

[Albion Wilde]

“An armed society is a polite society.”

[43north]

Read the comments at the original story link. The JBT cheerleaders are out in force. These anti-American people who still get to vote are the reason we’re in this mess now. Time to start taking names.

There were several ex-Navy SEALS in the “militia”? How did they know that? Oh, perhaps they were recognized by the “private contractors” the feds had hired on their side. Traitors!