I Wonder If GOP Secretly Wants The Feds To Use Force In Oregon. They Would Have Campaign Issue.

[TheMastersNemesis]

After all we see happened after Benghazi I wonder if the GOP is secretly ok if Oregon situation ends badly and the feds have to use force. With RW media, Fux News and hate radio they would have ammunition for 24/7 vitriol against an intrusive hateful federal government. These occupiers would be persecuted even Christian patriots unjustly confronted by jack booted thugs.

What ever happens there are political ramifications that the GOP probably hopes to exploit. No matter how this situation ends actually, the GOP plans to benefit.

[avebury]

1. I don't why the locals don't just cut off all of the utilities

and request assistance in blocking all access to the sanctuary. At that point they can just put the idiots in time out. The weather is nasty and they are ill prepared. Let them just sit back in total silence and think bout their actions.

[SHRED]

3. Because authoritarianism respects itself

[dmr]

4. I read that the power lines also serve

homes & businesses so they can't cut it; and it's too risky for the power company to send men out to cut it on site.

Don't remember where I read it, otherwise I'd link it.

[justhanginon]

8. I also read somewhere that they are afraid if they cut the utilities they

that water and sewer pipes will freeze and cause very costly damage to the many buildings.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. The locals are not in charge, Federal authorities are not only calling those shots but have the

ability to carry them out. The actual local law enforcement is about 6 people in a county larger than Vermont. To 'block all access' in such a place would take more than 6 people.

[truebluegreen]

2. Of course they do!

They've been wailing and gnashing their teeth about Tyranny! for 7 years now, and yet somehow the FEMA camps and sharia law and so forth have not come to pass: they need SOMETHING to back up their tantrums.

[dmr]

5. I think you're right.

It is a bit suspicious that they're acting up during an election year. Bet they have other scenarios planned for the rest of the year.

If this blows up in the fed's faces, the GOP/Congress would have pretty near a full year to foam at the mouth.

[librechik]

6. yup. not worth it to make an issue because ANYTHING

could turn into anti-Dem campaign gold.

Our system sux.

[The2ndWheel]

7. Does that apply to any political group?

Or is it just Republicans? Would Democrats want cops to shoot black people, since with the internet and college campuses, they have ammunition for vitriol against the white supremacist systemic patriarchy? Were people secretly hoping OWS would get pounded on by the corporate police state so that they had more 99% rage to exploit? The benefits of wanting either one of those things happening would've been pretty powerful. Being able to say "See! We told you!" is fun.