Armed Militia Takes Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ

What more can be said? I was one of the hundreds of journalists who went to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge during the Ammon Bundy occupation, and I saw the same things that all the rest of them did. If there was any difference between myself and those hundreds of other journalists, maybe it was that I went there looking for kindred spirits.

I went to the Malheur looking for kindred spirits. I found the mad, the fervent, the passionately misguided. I found the unknowing pawns of an existential chess game, in which we are, all of us, now caught.

Me too, kindred spirit! I don my camo pants and brown t shirt every morning, just to take a dump. Sitting there on the terlit beneath the American flag (after dropping my drawers of course, down to my cowboy boots) doing my morning constitution I like to read the constitution! And I do so, every day; every day. Its astounding.

What I realized is the only thing that guarantees my daily constitution is the pistol strapped to my leg. Without that, its all over and the country will fail.

DMT

belittling those who are different than us is never a good thing

Me too, kindred spirit! I don my camo pants and brown t shirt every morning, just to take a dump. Sitting there on the terlit beneath the American flag (after dropping my drawers of course, down to my cowboy boots) doing my morning constitution I like to read the constitution! And I do so, every day; every day. Its astounding.

What I realized is the only thing that guarantees my daily constitution is the pistol strapped to my leg. Without that, its all over and the country will fail.

DMT

My right to live is being violated,'' defendant Ryan Bundy wrote. "All of my First Amendment rights are being violated...I am not allowed to see my brother and move about....This violates my freedom of assembly...My Second Amendment rights are being violated. I never waived that right.
"When I say my rights are being violated, I want the Court to know that all of my rights are being violated; every last one of them. I could argue that my right to life hasn't been taken. But the FBI tried to take that right when they attempted to kill me. They missed on that one. I still have the bullet to prove that,'' Ryan Bundy wrote.

The administration has said that Iraq has no right to stockpile chemical or biological weapons ("weapons of mass destruction") — mainly because they have used them in the past.

Well, if that's the standard by which these matters are decided, then the U.S. is the nation that set the precedent. The U.S. has stockpiled these same weapons (and more) for over 40 years. The U.S. claims this was done for deterrent purposes during its "Cold War" with the Soviet Union. Why, then, it is invalid for Iraq to claim the same reason (deterrence) with respect to Iraq's (real) war with, and the continued threat of, its neighbor Iran?

The administration claims that Iraq has used these weapons in the past. We've all seen the pictures that show a Kurdish woman and child frozen in death from the use of chemical weapons. But, have you ever seen those pictures juxtaposed next to pictures from Hiroshima or Nagasaki?

I suggest that one study the histories of World War I, World War II and other "regional conflicts" that the U.S. has been involved in to familiarize themselves with the use of "weapons of mass destruction."

Remember Dresden? How about Hanoi? Tripoli? Baghdad? What about the big ones — Hiroshima and Nagasaki? (At these two locations, the U.S. killed at least 150,000 non-combatants — mostly women and children — in the blink of an eye. Thousands more took hours, days, weeks or months to die).