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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
I see it as an act of war against the United States.
This is no different than when the Confederate Army took Ft. Sumter.
Therefore Posse Comitatus does not apply and the appropriate response IMO is to send in the United States Military to take it back.
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Here ya go...
"If three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him a bedlamite—a fit subject for a mad house."
—George Washington to Henry Knox, on the subject of Shays Rebellion, February 3, 1787
"You have to give Captain Daniel Shays this: When he launched his armed sedition against lawful authority, he at least was invited in. Overnight on Saturday, in an obscure corner of the Oregon wilderness, and contrary to the law, and in defiance of democratic authority, both federal and local, another act of armed sedition was committed. It seems to me that this ought to be a bigger story than, say, the belated prosecution of Bill Cosby, or whatever most recently came out of the mouth of the vulgar talking yam. In a small place in Oregon, the essential compact of the United States of America has come apart."
A seriously pissed off Charlie Pierce...
...continued here
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...bundy-militia/