Huh - wonder what it cost to ship in a couple hundred heavily-armed BLM thugs? Uh, sorry, "federal workers".
Bundy “would probably rather be a martyr than a profitable rancher,” says Shea, the former BLM director.
No, he'd rather be a profitable rancher left alone. That much is absolutely clear, and it is, after all, what the affair is all about.
“Eventually, you have to draw the line. We go through these sad episodes where fanaticism has to be brought under legal control. And inevitably, somebody is killed.”
Who has to draw what line? And this passive-voice "somebody is killed" phrase - who kills whom? Lon Horiuchi on Vicki Weaver so that that family was "brought under legal control"? Really? Sad but "inevitable"? No. State violence is not simply a sad, necessary, anonymous force of nature invoked to keep the citizen in line. And clever framing and weasel words aren't going to change a damn thing on the ground.
"obama" is going to learn what a red line really is