The big picture short term though is these agencies need to be scrapped, completely, the employees and appointees fired, and then the needs that first required these agencies to be re debated and rebuilt to what they were supposed to be. How to do that is open for debate, but the need is apparent. I'm frankly just plain tired of 8 million people being on the tax payers pay roll at huge expense, destroying peoples lives, and receiving pensions and credit cards and vacations. Government in general is just out of control huge, a lumbering mostly incompetent monstrosity, a golem of gluttony, a goliath of greed. Hands fulla gimme and a mouth fulla *&*^%^k you civvie! Do what we say or be killed! I honestly don't see how people in those positions can cash their checks and not be full of shame, just plain old vanilla old fashioned shame. Did ja see that article today, half a MILLION dollars to house those fed agents at the headgates at the motel? Like WHAT FOR? I hope the townspeople keep up the shunning and they include local quisling businesses as well. Collaborators is more like it.
You can't and shouldn't negotiate with terrorists. Waste of time. Opens you up to the stockholm syndrome, too, which is a *true occurence* that effects victims sometimes. They wind up making excuses for the terrorists who are victimising them. "Oh, the terrorist is just doing his job", and etc. "mustn't upset the terrorist" "the terroists told us the proper way to think and act and they are so smart and kind, let's just do what they say".
No easy answers here other than realise that the land, the water, the money, the born-with freedoms up and down the list- all hijacked by a consortium of big government, big corporations and big non governmental organizations. They are terrorists in suits. They don't necessarily look like osama bin laden, but there's really no difference. Some have badges, some have briefcases, some sit in front of benches, but the results are "terrorism" so that makes them "terrorists". Until enough people realise that these terrorists will continue their outrages. Every day it seems there's a new one, not only out west, all over, for years now, usually it's a lone family, or a very small area, never gets any press or media coverage, people destroyed, and partly destroyed by realising they are totally alone, abandoned by their neighbors and attacked by the Big 3 terrorist cartel. No redress, no hope, they bleed you to death, or stomp you flat, that's the two choices of legal suicide they give you once a royal edict is spewed.
Do you have a link to that story?
(Good point about the "Stockholm Syndrome." Familiarity with the ever-present regulators CAN breed complacency, unless we remain on guard. The price of freedom...)