So sad, yet true. Just another symptom of the madness of our times, I suppose.... Thanks for the interesting post, Senator Pardek. Bumpety-bump! best, bb.
Perhaps if the Feds were strict constitutionalists, they wouldn't be so paranoid and fixated on those who buck the System in earnest.
Scott Garms, Eagar's police chief, said he had urged federal law officers to stay away from Cooper's two-story compound, high on a mesa overlooking Round Valley, because militia group members do not recognize the legitimacy of federal law officers. "We certainly didn't want to make him a martyr," Garms said.
As long as folks like Cooper get the Klayman treatment (and are ascribed a certain influence in the making of terrorists like Tim McVeigh), it's doubtful they're going to start a movement of any appreciable strength.
Just because most folks much prefer to go along nice and peaceful like and pay their taxes doesn't mean we need support the Feds in their targeting of those who don't.
But it's a moot point anyway. With any luck, folks like Cooper will just start disappearing for good cause now that the Government's terrorizing of him or the Branch Davidians or Randy Weaver has effectively propagandized the protesters -- most of whom are dead, of course -- as the Real threats to the American Way.
Sure it is.