” comment on the tactics “
They actually were putting their message out. They were doing town halls w/the locals. That’s where they were going when arrested.
However, the mistake was the jurisdiction where they chose to do this.
OWS and BLMatter are run by pros advocating communism, so they pick towns run by folks sympathetic to their cause. Not so for the ranchers.
Here, you had a eco-Nazi, dike, lib governor who was haranguing the feds to get them out of there - “We need some muscle here!”
The message was out there but not received in a sympathetic manner. And I am not talking about preaching to the choir. A protest is supposed to elicit sympathy and support from people outside of the movement. Ghandi’s protests were aimed at the British people not the Indians who followed him already.