MAYBE these ranchers are asshats, maybe. All I know, when I see this sort of response from the people of the US against federal facist forces, it makes me proud to be American. We don't live in Russia or Nazi Germany. There are too many instances when American citizens are staring down the barrel of a government issued weapon. This has to, MUST change. No more Ruby Ridges, No more Wacos. No more using paramilitary forces against the US people. Americans are tired of this and they WILL fight back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bD61YFxUga4

FTP

Lots of these "Rangers" ie Federal Law Enforcement are former SPECOP guys. Makes me sad to think they'd be ok, opening fire on American citizens, the same they swore to protect and defend by taking an oath to uphold the Constitution.

I am not a tinfoil hat nut guy, but aggression like this, paramilitary forces when normal law enforcement channels or adminsitrative actions would better serve the purpose and throttle down the potential violence, are not the answer. Could the feds have won, if the confrontation came to shooting? More than likely, they were carrying lots of firepower, had snipers, air assets, etc. But I don't think that crowd would have dispersed. There would have been lots of dead Americans, killed by their own government, lying out in the open for us all to see. They won't risk that, yet.

That is why it is so important to reign in these agencies. I'd like to see the dissolution of all the fed agencies armed task forces, except for FBI, US Marshals, etc. The conventional law enforcement groups. These "reaction forces" are there for one thing: to employ SPECOP tactics against US cilvilians and kill them. Unacceptable in a free country.