Posted on 02/11/2016 1:43:21 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
They implored him to think about the Holy Spirit. They explained that the First Amendment is about freedom of speech and the Second is about the right to bear arms, and said that they were in that order for a reason. They asked him what he thought Jesus would have done in his situation. He, in turn, asked for pizza and marijuana.
In the final moments, it all came down to one troubled young man and the exhaustive attempts by two of his ideological sympathizers to get him to surrender peacefully and end the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
"I'm actually feeling suicidal now," said David Fry, 27, of Ohio, the only one of the four remaining protesters who refused to leave the wildlife sanctuary on Thursday morning. "I will not go another day a slave to the system. I'm a free man. I will die a free man."
On Thursday, about 9:30 a.m. local time, three of the last four occupiers left their encampment at the refuge. [snip]
On Thursday, after his companions left, Mr. Fry spoke about his disillusionment with his fellow occupiers, with the Americans who did not join the occupation, with the banking system, with international wars and with the fact that "all those Pakistani children" had been "drone striked."
Ms. Hall tried to appeal to his ego. "Don't you want them to have to listen to you?" she said of the F.B.I. and of the world in general. When that did not work, she tried a caring tone. [snip]
In the end, Mr. Fry did sit up, rising and walking toward a scrum of officials. "One more cookie, one more cigarette," he said, just before leaving his hide-out. "Alrighty then."
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Whining little pothead.
This entire exercise has had the exact opposite effect from what the Bundy hustlers hoped.
Other than LaVoy Finicum announcing multiple times that he wanted suicide by cop and then going ahead and committing suicide by cop this whole thing was free of bloodshed.
The police at every level were amazingly accomodating and transparent - almost self-defeatingly so at times.
They waited weeks to cut power, they allowed the public to stream the negotiations.
The Malheur crew came off as confused, entitled, high-handed, disorganized, selfish, unhinged, and self-important.
Largest number of unique listeners to last nights stream? 70,000.
Actually if you were following the discussions going on by the most prominent militia leaders, they wanted no part in this ill-conceived affair. I’m proud they were thoughtful and discerning not to get involved with this.
Actually I have been as well as other incidents of BATF raiding legitimate firearms dealers and other assorted acts which could be construed as violations of our Constitutional rights.
There ain't going to be any revolution.........
“I don’t think freedom includes the right to trespass.”
It does for the leftist ‘occupy’ crowd.
Why do you hate America?
I don’t get it.
You may be on this site by mistake.
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