It’s weird to see a gif like that and suddenly realize, “Hey wait, I recognize her”…
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from your link:
"Something I want to teach her is to not make decisions based on what’s
easy or what’s comfortable, but to decide for herself what’s right,”
So… that’s why a 44 year old man brought his 9-year old daughter to an armed insurrection? to make the men snacks?
Oh, and to learn a lesson that authority figures are not always people to follow? (Wonder when that lesson will be helpful to the daugher of such a wise man?)
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Deadly force means that force which a reasonable person would consider likely to cause death or serious bodily harm. Pointing a gun at someone is not deadly force, pulling the trigger is. Unless they have shot, stabbed, or very badly beaten someone, no they haven’t.
Notice that word ‘only’ in there. It’s my understanding that the colonial British made overzealous accusations of treason and used it to prosecute just about any act of defiance prior to the time of the US founding. The definition of treason was specifically constrained by the founders in order to prevent its use as a generic crime that could be easily abused by the government. Time has marched on and now we might be stuck with parsing out the definition of ‘war’ to determine the extent of the crime. To me, the actions of the Bundy bunch don’t rise to that level of conflict. The non-declaration of war by the US government seems to confirm that they don’t think so either.
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Who are these militant leftists?
(polling a strawman)
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Who was Todos to Elvis’ Kang?
The word ‘enemies’ is in there too. Seem to me how WE define enemies is the root of the matter.
Now, lets argue about if that 55 gallons of lube is offering them comfort.
The non-declaration of war by the US government seems to confirm that they don’t think so either.
So, if we do not declare war (on the sovereign wildlife sanctuary??), they are not guilty of treason. Wow, we sure did set up an entire system with a giant loophole that these true patriots have discovered. How clever of them. What fools we were until today.
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You really having trouble understanding this, or just trolling?
I want you to proceed to your neareast police station and argue this, with your gun out, with the desk officer.
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Every society needs a Drinking and Explosives Holiday. Its civilised.
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It should be investigated as criminal child endangerment.
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Okay, so at first, I was all like, “I don’t know about calling them terrorists, I mean, usually we use that for people who are actually killing or at least kidnapping (or trying actively to do so).” Then they put snipers in towers and I was like, “Okay, that seems like putting lives in the hands of the whim of some people who might think they are Rambo and creating some kind of invisible ‘you might be killed’ line, I’d be pretty nervous about that.”
But setting up a court to try people? What are they going to do to people they find guilty, restorative justice? Draw up arrest warrants, cut the power, blockade the supplies, and accept those who peacefully surrender. If we really insist on humouring them we could ask each if they want to be tried as a citizen of the united states or held as a prisoner of war.
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Elected judges?
Blergh.
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As a fan of Javascript, I take exception to truthiness being used in a sketchy manner.
Why is it taking so long for these dingbats to be charged?
And don’t call me Shirley.
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#TL4
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How about a crate of limburger with some activated hand-warmer packs inside?
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The UPS USPS is a semi-independent federal agency, required to be revenue-neutral.
[UPDATE: corrected. Thanks, @anon67050589!]
Crates filled with copies of the Twilight series with [EDIT: a random] 50 1/2 pages removed from each copy?
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We have two, because…'Murica!!
