Ammon and Ryan Bundy just got busted.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

Looks like the feds are finally making their move, Ammon Bundy, Ryan C. Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Waylen Payne have been arrested.

[Ultimate Paragon]

[ironbite]

Took 'em long enough.

Ironbite-now charge them with terrorism, ship them off to Gitmo, and forget 'em.

[Id82]

Apparently one of them was killed in a fire fight with the FBI. I love how they were going off to some meeting like they can just come and go from the building they're occupying without being treated like criminals.

[davedan]

I can't help but feel sad for the bloke that died. I saw a video of him on TYT and he seemed fucking loopy. That said the FBI and the police should be praised for their restraint. Now if only that restraint could extend to other US demographics.

[Ironchew]

That said the FBI and the police should be praised for their restraint. Now if only that restraint could extend to other US demographics.

I don't feel like praising them for waiting this long. Had it been a response within a couple of days? Sure. But this was obviously a case of good old boys occupying a building *and making frequent trips into town* while the police, full of good old boys themselves, sat around doing nothing.

Law enforcement wouldn't have that restraint with other demographics partly because this much restraint was not warranted.

[davedan]

I'd still prefer if in each interaction they went on the side of not killing people wherever possible.

[Canadian Mojo]

The apparent inaction of the FBI allowed Y'all Qaeda the time to make themselves laughingstock rather than martyrs and they took most of the leadership alive to face trial. Given what happened in Okalhoma city in 1995 can be directly attributed to blow back from Ruby Ridge and Waco, this was probably the best way to play it.

[Ultimate Paragon]

The apparent inaction of the FBI allowed Y'all Qaeda the time to make themselves laughingstock rather than martyrs and they took most of the leadership alive to face trial. Given what happened in Okalhoma city in 1995 can be directly attributed to blow back from Ruby Ridge and Waco, this was probably the best way to play it.

Yup.  Better to play it smart.

[Canadian Mojo]

No matter how it was played, the FBI was going to piss somebody off. Given which of those two camps has a history of violence, it seems a pretty obvious choice.

[niam2023]

Does not seem right to me these people get off most likely lightly or free. I was hoping for a decimation to teach the rampant louts and their supporters a lesson.

Hope the FBI locks em up at least fifty years each if they aren't shedding the mortal coils.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Does not seem right to me these people get off most likely lightly or free. I was hoping for a decimation to teach the rampant louts and their supporters a lesson.

And feed the alt-right's persecution complex?  Even ignoring the questionable morals of such an event, that's what's known as a Pyrrhic victory.

Hope the FBI locks em up at least fifty years each if they aren't shedding the mortal coils.

Yeah, they better get what's coming to them.

[Askold]

HAHA! Now the people who support Bundy's are claiming that this was an assassination and possibly the first step in Obama's long awaited evil plan to become the dictator of USA.

Soldier of Fortune magazine's publisher believes this is part of Obama's "draconian gun law" plan and released this statement

"This is not a time or place for armed confrontation. Such a confrontation will only be distorted by the main stream media and assist Obama in his anti 2nd amendment agenda."

Basically, "wait until Obama is out of office and THEN start the revolution" I assume. Unless of course some Republican is elected.