Oppressed white farmers occupy federal building in Oregon

[Yamcha]

can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

[drkaje]

quoting a tweet:

Today I learned:
plural of armed black people is thugs
plural of armed brown people is terrorists
plural of armed white people is militia

True.

Funny thing is they're protesting for subsidies, a form of welfare. Can you imagine how people (here) would react if a bunch of black people occupied a county building asking for more money on their benefit cards?

[240 is Back]

True.

Funny thing is they're protesting for subsidies, a form of welfare. Can you imagine how people (here) would react if a bunch of black people occupied a county building asking for more money on their benefit cards?

imagine if dozens of muslims with rifles decided to break into a federal building, chase everyone away with death threats, then declare they'll be there for years until political prisoners are released - and they're willing to die for their cause.

Sickening to see the double standard.  If these folks were brown and carrying Korans, snipers would be dropping their asses left and right. 

[Howard]

What's the justification for protecting two criminals? Were these men wrongly convicted?

BINGO!

Regardless of race, the citizens must respect the rule of law or we get chaos.

[240 is Back]

LOL @ folks on social media trying to find ANY way to justify these actions.

"but look at all this land the govt has taken" and "maybe the trial was a sham"

These are separate issues.   Threatening to kill people, breaking into govt buildings, blocking roads with vehicles and promising to 'take over' this state park for years while letting people frack, graze, poach, and dig in this park...

If you don't like it, vote the fckers out.  Or run for office.  Don't pick up a gun and threaten to murder Americans.  They're terrorists, sorry, but their actions are all that matter here.  The dude who was convicted doesn't even suppoert their cause.  They just want money, and he's the reason they're using.

[240 is Back]

BINGO!

Regardless of race, the citizens must respect the rule of law or we get chaos.

yep.  If 5000 people picked up rifles next sunday, and decided to copy them - break into/occupy any govt building closed for the day - we'd have chaos.  They got away wtih blocking roads/pointing guns at feds last time, so they think it's okay this time.

[drkaje]

imagine if dozens of muslims with rifles decided to break into a federal building, chase everyone away with death threats, then declare they'll be there for years until political prisoners are released - and they're willing to die for their cause.

Sickening to see the double standard.  If these folks were brown and carrying Korans, snipers would be dropping their asses left and right. 

Double standards exist because people are fine with them.

[polychronopolous]

Patriotism

[chaos]

imagine if dozens of muslims with rifles decided to break into a federal building, chase everyone away with death threats, then declare they'll be there for years until political prisoners are released - and they're willing to die for their cause.

Sickening to see the double standard.  If these folks were brown and carrying Korans, snipers would be dropping their asses left and right. 

It's actually sickening how you keep comparing these guys to muzzies

[chaos]

possibly but you haven't invalidated the argument

What's the argument?

[mr.turbo]

now trending

#yeehawd
#shanialaw

[Option D]

quoting a tweet:

Today I learned:
plural of armed black people is thugs
plural of armed brown people is terrorists
plural of armed white people is militia

double standard of peace 

[chaos]

now trending

#yeehawd

[mr.turbo]

possibly but you haven't invalidated the argument

chaos torpedoing head first into the conversation with reckless abandon

[240 is Back]

The problem is - we're moving away from "these armed people took over a building and threatened to kill americans while expressing desire to overthrow govt", and moving toward listing all the ways white people get wronged.

Two completely separate things.

Skin color shouldn't matter - actions should matter.  If you get loaded up, and take over a govt building with threats of violence, you should probably see a jail cell, no matter what.  If these people get sent home *again* with no punishment, then I'd hate to see what they do NEXT.

[240 is Back]

The armed takeover dudes are hungry.  They want people to mail them snacks.

Yes, the want to overthrow the govt but they still want to enjoy the US Postal Service.  Huh

[US MUSL]

They took over an unoccupied building.

[mr.turbo]

whitey is a terrorist?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/03/opinions/kayyem-oregon-building-takeover-terrorism/

(CNN)Who the heck do they think they are?

Let's begin with what to call the Oregon anti-government protesters who have taken over a federal building. The men, heavily armed, urging others to come support their cause, and claiming somehow that, while peaceful, they will "defend" themselves whatever it takes, are -- by any definition -- domestic terrorists.

 

[The True Adonis]

These dumbasses are just as bad as the Black Lives Matters morons.  They both are wrong on their respective issue and both share the same victim mentality when each cause has stemmed from a legal result (the correct result) they did not like.

Fuck them all.

[Howard]

The problem is - we're moving away from "these armed people took over a building and threatened to kill americans while expressing desire to overthrow govt", and moving toward listing all the ways white people get wronged.

Two completely separate things.

Skin color shouldn't matter - actions should matter.  If you get loaded up, and take over a govt building with threats of violence, you should probably see a jail cell, no matter what.  If these people get sent home *again* with no punishment, then I'd hate to see what they do NEXT.

Back in the mid 1990's I worked out in a gym with a couple " militia" dudes.
They felt that  blowing up the Oklahoma Gov building was fine . They somehow justified it as a legit attack on a
repressive  Government .

The week after the 9/11 attacks , one came over to me and quietly said ;
" You were right Howard. Any attack on our Gov by a private group of people is a terrorist attack."

In my view, one either repsect the Gov system and rule of law of they don't. Pretty simple.

[TuHolmes]

These dumbasses are just as bad as the Black Lives Matters morons.  They both are wrong on their respective issue and both share the same victim mentality when each cause has stemmed from a legal result (the correct result) they did not like.

Fuck them all.

I agree with your statement.

[240 is Back]

They took over an unoccupied building.

they broke in.  

On my street, there are unoccupied buildings - people up north for the summer that only vacation here.  It's quite illegal for me to break into their homes just cause they're empty.

[chaos]

These dumbasses are just as bad as the Black Lives Matters morons.  They both are wrong on their respective issue and both share the same victim mentality when each cause has stemmed from a legal result (the correct result) they did not like.

Fuck them all.

Not sure why it's so difficult for some people on getbig to understand this.

[TuHolmes]

Not sure why it's so difficult for some people on getbig to understand this.

It's the if you're not with us, you're against us mentality. It's stupid... in reality, you can be against all of them.

[chaos]

It's the if you're not with us, you're against us mentality. It's stupid... in reality, you can be against all of them.

I still think there are alot of assumptions being made here. But from what I see, I can't agree with their occupation.