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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat Night I Spent with Ammon Bundy’s Armed Militia
Up in the watchtower:
What are these? I asked reflexively, as I realized they were magazines of ammunition.
Candy, Payne said.
There was a rifle in the room, and a piece of equipment that they were trying to hide from me, so I shone my cell phone on it. It was a long-range surveillance scope, engineered to make it possible to see a target from far awaya sniper setup. We dont want to talk about that, Payne said. Its really cool though, right?
The truth is that most simply wanted to be there. Cooper and his wife told me they quit their jobs, cashed in their 401(k) funds, and left their three kids with friends in Arizona to be full-time patriots. They told me the militia had already won: theyd occupied federal buildings without firing a single shot. More importantly, the entire world knew it. He gestured to me as if to say, Just look at you, youre here.
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Candy, Payne said.
There was a rifle in the room, and a piece of equipment that they were trying to hide from me, so I shone my cell phone on it. It was a long-range surveillance scope, engineered to make it possible to see a target from far awaya sniper setup. We dont want to talk about that, Payne said. Its really cool though, right?
The truth is that most simply wanted to be there. Cooper and his wife told me they quit their jobs, cashed in their 401(k) funds, and left their three kids with friends in Arizona to be full-time patriots. They told me the militia had already won: theyd occupied federal buildings without firing a single shot. More importantly, the entire world knew it. He gestured to me as if to say, Just look at you, youre here.
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That Night I Spent with Ammon Bundy’s Armed Militia (Original Post)
tencats
Jan 2016
OP
Quit their jobs? Why not join the Army and go to Afghanistan if they want to be patriots?
randys1
Jan 2016
#1
"You are truly going to witness the cream of humanity’s moral possibility here.”
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2016
#3
randys1
(16,286 posts)1. Quit their jobs? Why not join the Army and go to Afghanistan if they want to be patriots?
B Calm
(28,762 posts)2. It is a bird sanctuary and they are loons. .
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. "You are truly going to witness the cream of humanity’s moral possibility here.”
Uhhhh......what?