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now the bundys get to walk around wearing the mantle of martyrdom, and the joke of welfare ranching will march on. wolves will be shot & tax dollars will be wasted.
on the plus side, they served about as much time as they'd have gotten sentenced to.
But we're not here to celebrate a victory against excessive police violence, we're here to get all righteously indignant about a bunch of political radicals evading conviction for their political Action, amirite?
Back in my day, when I was a kid and America was great a group of black folks tried to pull off a similar stunt to the Bundy's in Philadelphia. Different reasons, urban instead of rural but still the occupation of property in order to make some kind of point. In both cases they were surrounded and contained.
But back then when I was a kid and America was Great, we just bomb the shit out of those folks in Philadelphia took out an entire city block. That's the American way not this wimpy liberal wait em out put em on trial and let off bullshit.
Just bomb the shit out of em take out the entire plot of land. That's how we did it when America was Great.
You don't need to go all the way back to the '85 MOVE standoff for your example of Great and Glorious American Suppression of Political Activists-- the federal government put down 82 radical dissidents in 1993.
Alas, a few of those politically marginalized revolutionaries did manage to emerge unkilled, and when brought to trial, most of the serious charges were dropped, and the rest had sentences whittled away on appeal.
Uh, sure, I get where you're coming from. But try telling that to David Koresh.
Get over yourself troll!
@2 OR ANYONE: How did this happen? I've read a few articles on it, but am still not clear. the offenses were so obvious and well-recorded. was this some jury nullification or what? it's so upsetting that the bundys and all their internet troll commentators have this to hang their hats on now. how did this happen? ugh.
(and, yes, of course i want the government and the prosecution to be kept in check, but especially in light of how black people are treated by the police and the courts this is just so disappointing an outcome)
@1 agreed
Hence the kid gloves these sovereign citizen ding dongs get treated with now. Finicum being the ding dongiest.
My comment doesn't meet any sensible definition of trolling nor did is demonstrate any kind of pretension to which one could sensibly reply "get over yourself." I think you're projecting.
What a bunch of assholes.
I am strongly opposed to private monopolization of public resources, but it sounds like the jury were unconvinced of the government's assertions 1) that defendants committed violations of law of which they were accused, and/or 2) that the laws defining these violations and/or potential punishments therefor are unjust. In our system of justice, the jury serves as a last check against unjust law (and more generally, against governmental tyranny).
My quick read suggests that these people were not tried for what they seemingly did wrong, but for some other crimes, as some kind of political power play. Fuck that.