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Ford_Prefect

(7,918 posts)
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 11:30 PM Jan 2016

In any other country the Bundys would have been arrested as poachers and thieves.

Ask yourself if this had happened in any other place on the globe that a group of armed hunters took over a game preserve with the intent of keeping it what would be the outcome?

The bellicose "patriotic" rhetoric is a dodge. It has no basis in fact or history and they know it does not.

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In any other country the Bundys would have been arrested as poachers and thieves. (Original Post) Ford_Prefect Jan 2016 OP
They Would Be Dead And Disappeared By Now In China. In Saudi Arabia They Would Be Headless. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2016 #1
Add trespassing, breaking & entering a Federal Bldg. destroying Federal property, violating security 99th_Monkey Jan 2016 #2
Heavily armed criminal lunatics abelenkpe Jan 2016 #3
They would be arrested here if they were anyone but right wingers Fumesucker Jan 2016 #4
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. Add trespassing, breaking & entering a Federal Bldg. destroying Federal property, violating security
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 11:48 PM
Jan 2016

on Federal employees' computers .. and I'm sure there are more we don't even know about yet.

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
3. Heavily armed criminal lunatics
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 11:48 PM
Jan 2016

Are occupying a federal reserve in the US.
It's a shameful situation. The media makes it worse.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
4. They would be arrested here if they were anyone but right wingers
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 12:02 AM
Jan 2016

Come on, imagine a bunch of armed Earth First extremists took over a Federal facility.

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