I just listened to what their media mouthpiece (and possible FBI informer/provacateur) Pete Santilli had to say on his YouTube channel (and yes, I'm going to take a long, hot shower now). He's all hot and bothered that some local citizens are criticizing some of the local businesses that appear to be supporting the insurrectionists, so he just broadcast all the names of these people and marked them for 'a blast', whatever that is. He stops just short of adding their addresses, but since Burns is such a small community, everyone pretty much knows where everyone else lives. I fear that some of this guy's followers will try to take some sort of action or intimidation against these locals for supporting the sanctuary and opposing the occupiers.
If you follow any links with the names of the occupiers, their vocal supporters, and the groups whose insignia are displayed on their patches and pickup truck decals, almost all either directly or eventually link back to a Sovereign Citizen type of web site or discussion board at some point. A good portion of the people that are out there supporting them are members of various '3-percenter' groups (Google *that* for another glimpse under the rock, but go into it knowing that you are going to see things that you can't unsee).
I can see why the government is waiting - these nutcases are looking for *any* trigger they can use as a flashpoint to start creating real (read - deadly) trouble, and they have a bunch of heavily armed conspiracy theorists that are very willing to try to make a name for themselves. If the roads are blocked to keep them contained, they will claim 'standoff' or 'siege' and rouse up some more of the rabble. If the power and Internet access is cut, the feds stand to lose a valuable tool that is currently allowing the nutcase to build a very strong case against themselves. Just look at how they reacted when they thought that the power station remote monitoring and control system was a part of an FBI surveillance camera system set up to watch them.
Their self-proclaimed 'judge' Bruce Doucette is trying to form a 'citizen's grand jury' to bring 'charges' against local and federal officials and employees. (This is the guy that had a detailed post on his Facebook page about how we can't live on a sphere. Essentially, he is claiming that if you pour water on a globe in the driveway, it runs right off the bottom to a flat surface - the ground - so that proves that the Earth is not a sphere, or the oceans would all fall off. Yes, they really ARE that loopy!)
These are dangerous, unstable, and extremely delusional people with access to weapons. And they have cells of 'supporters' and various hangers-on and wanna-be's around the country.
After turning over a few rocks and seeing the slimy scuttling masses under them, I see that these are a truly dangerous group of people, and not just the incompetent clowns that the Internet memes would have you believe. They are attempting to force the creation of another 'Waco' or 'Ruby Ridge' and a few martyrs that they can exploit in an attempt to stir up much more widespread actions.
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