Terrorists take over federal Building, threaten violence

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'm so glad America thinks heavily arming the mentally ill is a good idea.

Seems a strange oddity that these people actually gave up. Crazy, but not suicidal.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I'm so glad America thinks heavily arming the mentally ill is a good idea.

Seems a strange oddity that these people actually gave up. Crazy, but not suicidal.

These are the people who go to court to be vindicated.

The same ones who take their family squabble onto Jerry Springer out of a belief that the nation and the studio audience will see that they're entirely in the right.

Finicum was the Y'allqaeda's first martyr, I think she wants to be their first Wal-martyr.

 

[Derec]

I wonder if in 2066 there will be a headline in Washington Post "Fifty years later, America still can’t understand the Malheur Occupiers"

 

[braces_for_impact]

I'm so glad America thinks heavily arming the mentally ill is a good idea.

Seems a strange oddity that these people actually gave up. Crazy, but not suicidal.

I know. We really need to watch these crazies with guns...

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ues-for-666-billion-citing-works-of-the-devil

Is 'works of the devil' an acknowledged legal term, like 'acts of God?'


And she also provides her defense for the charges against her:

In her complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon, Cox also says the group seized control of Malheur at a time when the refuge was preparing to shut down for the winter. She denies interfering with government employees, saying, "If anything, it was their choice to not come to work, out of guilt."

Yeah.... Armed men are denying people's entry to the compound and threatening to shoot Feds and the workers are 'guilty' and staying home.

In the coming years we'll likely see a new mental disorder listed in psychiatric journals. For now we'll just call it "Take over public lands with guns, shit all over everything, surrender, and be a big fucking cry-baby syndrome." There's got to be an acronym in there somewhere.

 

[Sarpedon]

Do you think that having the safety off was a deliberate choice by Bush or is he just clueless?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that the only time that you should have the safety off is when you are holding the gun and preparing to fire. You don't set the gun down with the safety off.

 

[funinspace]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ues-for-666-billion-citing-works-of-the-devil

Is 'works of the devil' an acknowledged legal term, like 'acts of God?'


And she also provides her defense for the charges against her:

In her complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon, Cox also says the group seized control of Malheur at a time when the refuge was preparing to shut down for the winter. She denies interfering with government employees, saying, "If anything, it was their choice to not come to work, out of guilt."

Yeah.... Armed men are denying people's entry to the compound and threatening to shoot Feds and the workers are 'guilty' and staying home.

Yeah, I scanned thru the 8 page complaint...isn't that a little brief? Anywho...

From page 6 of the complaint, I found this funnier than the rest (well beyond the whining that she is a “sovereign citizen” and not a “subject of corporate United States of America”…so stop calling me that):

Additional affirmative defenses I am reserving include:
…

19. Foreign Agents operating subversively within United States, including but not limited to State and Federal Bar Associations, IMF agents and Blackstone mercenaries.

Ok, beyond the bizarre idea that Bar Associations and IMF agents are somehow “foreign agents”, I at first thought Blackstone was supposed to be Blackwater (renamed 28 times now). But it does appear that this is one of the right wing nutter fantasies, and of course it comes with a wackjob thinking he’s (Darby) a Constitutional judge:
One page of several nutter sites:
https://www.intellihub.com/reports-armed-drone-over-burns-oregon-foreign-mercenaries-posing-fbi/

Darby went on to point out just how bad it’s getting in Harney County and told Major Bomar that he was worried for the locals after finding out that foreign “Blackstone mercenaries” are operating, posing, as “FBI.”

Now there is a Blackstone Mercenary Company online game (I know this must be the cover for the super-secret shadow merc company out there):
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?583352-Blackstone-Mercenary-Company

I think they are doing something stronger than pot...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Do you think that having the safety off was a deliberate choice by Bush or is he just clueless?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that the only time that you should have the safety off is when you are holding the gun and preparing to fire. You don't set the gun down with the safety off.

Conquer
Rule (nothing)
Evacuate (bowels)
Surrender
Tantrum

CREST?

 

[blastula]

I wonder if in 2066 there will be a headline in Washington Post "Fifty years later, America still can’t understand the Malheur Occupiers"

I hate to ask, but does anybody have a Derec-to-sane decoder ring handy?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

I wonder if in 2066 there will be a headline in Washington Post "Fifty years later, America still can’t understand the Malheur Occupiers"

I hate to ask, but does anybody have a Derec-to-sane decoder ring handy?

Day drunk?

 

[Keith&Co.]

I guess it depends on what he was reading when he decided he needed to post.

I mean, I UNDERSTAND asking for 666 billion bucks. I just can't really sympathize with accusing the government of collusion with a fictional being.

 

[funinspace]

Well, the feds do have black helicopters...so maybe they also talk to invisible friends.

 

[ZiprHead]

So someone actually read Finicum's post-apocalyptic novel.

"Surprisingly, the novel, Only by Blood and Suffering: Regaining Lost Freedom, isn’t quite as completely unreadable as we’d anticipated. It’s merely tedious, badly written, laughably preachy, and composed of militia propaganda standing in for dialogue, with some pretty cheesy action sequences thrown in to hold the whole mess together. It’s a bit like somebody read a lot of Red Dawn fanfiction while visiting Alex Jones’s Infowars website. How bad is this book? It’s so deliciously bad that we’re going to make this review a two-parter, because there’s simply so much wonderful idiocy in it we’d feel remiss if we didn’t share as much as possible with you Wonkers."

Part 1

Part 2

 

[Crazy Eddie]

a shitload of fecal matter

Redundancy is redundant.

I'm so glad America thinks heavily arming the mentally ill is a good idea.

"Being a terrorist" is not and has never been a mental illness.

Crazy, but not suicidal.

See above.

 

[Keith&Co.]

"Being a terrorist" is not and has never been a mental illness.

I don't believe he's making the diagnosis based merely on Ms. Cox's participation in the occupation, but on the contents of her brief and the intentions of her suit.
She kinda wack.
The fact that she can be that wack and still have a God-given and NRA-supported right to carry is even more wack.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So someone actually read Finicum's post-apocalyptic novel.

I do like how the twins woke up, power was out, cars weren't moving, therefore concluded it's the apocalypse. It's what scares me the most about the preppers. They're in their starter's crouch, just salivating at the thought that society will collapse at any moment now, leaving them free to take any action necessary. It's The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street with automatic weapons.

 

[Malintent]

Do you think that having the safety off was a deliberate choice by Bush or is he just clueless?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that the only time that you should have the safety off is when you are holding the gun and preparing to fire. You don't set the gun down with the safety off.

I think that's just part of the joke... That's not really his gun, you know...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So someone actually read Finicum's post-apocalyptic novel.

I do like how the twins woke up, power was out, cars weren't moving, therefore concluded it's the apocalypse. It's what scares me the most about the preppers. They're in their starter's crouch, just salivating at the thought that society will collapse at any moment now, leaving them free to take any action necessary. It's The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street with automatic weapons.

That is how it works out when your dad knows how the future will unfold.

Granted, how many times have these people traded a gun for a mountain bike every time the power went out? And, if there are nuclear bombs... isn't their fallout?

And how safe are they for now? Isn't the nation cut down to hell? They have a year's worth of food, and no sewer management system.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Granted, how many times have these people traded a gun for a mountain bike every time the power went out?

Yeah, it's not like how money would have retained it's value if it were backed by gold... Even if the government, banks and ATMs collapsed, 'real' money would still be money, right?

And, if there are nuclear bombs... isn't their fallout?

That's the cool thing about EMP weapons. Pop them up high enough, you cripple the country, but leave all the people you're at war with to stockpile their ammo, and all the fallout stays way up high in the atmosphere, tracking the jet stream and eventually coming to Earth god-only-knows-where. I'm sure in Finicum world, the radiation snowed down on the countries of the people who launched, making it an expensive form of suicide.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Yeah, it's not like how money would have retained it's value if it were backed by gold... Even if the government, banks and ATMs collapsed, 'real' money would still be money, right?

Yeah, that $20 gold note is still about useful as toilet paper. Currency is only worth what someone else thinks it is worth. Poor saps would be screwed because bitcoin would become useless in a tech-free society.

And, if there are nuclear bombs... isn't their fallout?

That's the cool thing about EMP weapons. Pop them up high enough, you cripple the country, but leave all the people you're at war with to stockpile their ammo, and all the fallout stays way up high in the atmosphere, tracking the jet stream and eventually coming to Earth god-only-knows-where. I'm sure in Finicum world, the radiation snowed down on the countries of the people who launched, making it an expensive form of suicide.

Well he did nuke the base in Arizona, wrong location, but nuked it. That'd imply nukes elsewhere. But as we know, mountain bikes can take you hundreds of miles away from the fallout in a day or two.

Anywho, I need to head out and bury a cache of weapons and food at arbitrary locations and hope to hell my family can find them.