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To: Smokin' Joe

I do not think they will be martyrs...that is what the government does NOT want and especially if several hundred patriots go there will most likely not happen. It will defuse itself but the government knows there are folks out there ready to take them on. You seem to think that as long as we do nothing everything will be okay...it will not! Evil never stops, it keeps attacking until the good is defeated. Your assumptions just are out of place here.

You seem way overly concerned with how the left will perceive conservatives. You do not seem to understand they already hate us...have for decades. That is what has brought us to the place we are today. Doing nothing is not an option that will result in victory. Besides these patriots are making very clear that they are not there for violence, but as a peaceful protest. Maybe you should spend your time on the internet comparing this peaceful protest to St Louis and Baltimore...do something worthwhile for freedom.


64 posted on 01/04/2016 7:13:10 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Wpin
...do something worthwhile for freedom.

I am trying.

Sometimes the correct course of action is no action at all.

While you might feel better after this tantrum, the long term effects are going to not only be worse, they will impede any well thought out attempts to reverse this crap.

This will have justified the overbearing, militarized, park ranger assault teams, the gear, the training, and worse yet, the ongoing enmity between ranchers and farmers and the BLM.

It will have pushed the meme of White, Christian, Rural, Gun-toting, domestic terrorist to new levels.

Most of America will NOT see these people as "freedom fighters"; they will see "terrorists"--because that is how these people will be portrayed in the media.

I don't care how the Left perceives us, they are the enemy anyway. I DO care how stupidly this plays into the Left's control of perceptions, not just for their fellow travelers, but for the millions of people who depend on the Leftmedia for information. What do you think they are going to see? Sound bytes of crackpots with guns--that's how this will be portrayed, and, God help us, most of America will believe that. Right when Obama is going to make an 'announcement (illegally) of gun control measures by decree.

Bad timing, unless these people are working for the other side.

The issue of BLM abuses will take a back seat to the rest, and probably won't even appear in a sidebar.

If there is to be casus belli, it must be something understood viscerally by a majority of Americans, and this isn't the issue, nor the action, nor the time.

67 posted on 01/04/2016 7:38:34 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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