Are Feds Leery Of Taking On Militia For Fear Of Larger Resistance?

[TheMastersNemesis]

The Feds appear to be "pussy footing" around with the sanctuary stand off. Do they fear a larger backlash by other militia and dead enders? We all know Fux News and the RW will scream and yell bloody murder and call for action. Is it possible to prevent another Ruby Ridge or Waco type of disaster.

The federal authorities are in a tight spot. Depending on what the militia members do the federal and local authorities appear to have a no win situation developing.

And the GOP is likely to pounce and let loose more have speech. I will bet they claim that Obama is unjustly persecuting these white people.

Biding you time might be the better strategy at this point even though the desire to pounce on the situation is great.

[Sam_Fields]

1. They don't want another Ruby Ridge or Waco.

They can wait for the protesters to get tired then go home then can arrest them on a trip to a grocery store.

[emulatorloo]

6. Yes. And the ranchers' goal is to get another Ruby Ridge or Waco

They are trying to provoke violence.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Exactly.

leaving aside the facts around the Branch Davidians and their Nutty messiah, Waco was a clusterfuck from a PR perspective.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Need an LRAD like they used on G8, iirc, protesters in Pittsburgh a few years ago. Night! nt

[grasswire]

3. I think so. nt

[NutmegYankee]

4. Of course they fear a backlash.

The Right wing nuts in this country have proven they are willing to kill.

[RandySF]

5. My take on it.

The feds can sweep in any moment and take them down without breaking a sweat. But they don't want a bunch of dead ranchers on the CNN, so they don't see them harm in letting them go cold and hungry until they finally wimp out.

[pinboy3niner]

7. And by not going in, the feds have denied them the narrative...

...of a small band of heroic Patriots holding off a surrounding, heavily-armed force of tyrannical federal agents.

[Kennah]

8. FBI should send in food, enroll them in ACA, and forward their subsidy checks n/t

[world wide wally]

9. Cut off their water, heat, and any source of supplies… Then cut off whatever gubmint assistance they

most likely get.
I guess Trump would kill their families, Cruz would carpet bomb them, Huckabee would preach to them, Christie would keep threatening, Kasich would punch them in the nose, Fiiorina would lie to them, Rubio would call in the 6th Fleet, and Jeb would pipe in his speeches to drive them insane.
So cutting off their life support would probably be the most humane.