They are NOT protesters

[angrychair]

By some accounts there are as many as 150+ heavily armed people at the site that have expressed the desire to stay as long as it takes (no jobs?) and shoot if they "need to&quot they are creating the "need to" by illegally occupying public buildings and vowing not to leave...while heavily armed).There are 11+ buildings that were closed to the public at that site. Based on public domain accounts from the site, they are unlawfully occupying at at least 3+ of the buildings.They have mounted an armed person in a fire watch tower at the site as well and man it 24 hrs a day.
Reporters were allowed at the site but barred from entering buildings for "operational security".

These are a bunch of nutjobs playing army and trying to start a conflict.

They even talked about bringing in spouses and children which is a clear attempt to have non-combatants at the site to have human shields or increase the opportunity for collateral damage if a breach is necessary.

These people are terrorists and there is no doubt in anyone's mind that if these were anything other than white males they would already be dead.

[Punkingal]

1. i have even heard them called "activists."

[jberryhill]

2. "trying to start a conflict"

...and not getting one - which I find amusing.

[Lizzie Poppet]

3. One thing I'm sure they are: seditionists.

Federal law seems pretty unequivocal on that.

[murielm99]

4. Playing army.

Exactly. I like that.

They have real guns, though.

[cali]

5. Agreed, but there are only a handful. No accounts but asshole terrorists claim 150

More like 12-15

[Johonny]

9. Yeah, it seems to me they used the actual protest to inflate their numbers

There are the actual people protesting oddly enough the war on terror laws which many kind of vaguely understand, people who seem okay with the original act of setting the fires, and armed insane people mostly coming in from out of the area that used the other people. They have successfully turned the protest into a stupidfeast a gun waving. I doubt most of the original protesters are itching to die so Bundy can keep owing grazing fees or whatever it is they think they represent. Needless to say whatever the original message, armed rebellion isn't on many people's agenda.

[valerief]

6. Protesters carry signs, not AK-47s. nt

[mmonk]

7. +1

[modem77]

8. The best thing to do is not give them what they want. Ignore them.

"the only winning move is not to play."