That's why they haven't been labeled terrorists by the racist media and why they haven't been overrun and massacred by some sort of federal SWAT troopers.
According to liberal bloggers, this morning, anyway.
Armed protesters refuse to leave federal building in Oregon
It's a national wildlife refuge building out in the Oregon woods, somewhere, that looks like one of those little rest areas or welcome centers you see by the side of interstate highways and turnpikes.
The people involved are bloody backwoods idiots and if the feds do end up in a shootout with them it will certainly be their own damned fault.
But no need to rush.
Update, 1/5/16, 0924 hrs EST.
The Dividing Lines of Race, Ethnicity and Religion
Having somehow completely forgotten the black crime wave stretching from Ferguson to Baltimore, with several people - cops included - murdered in the process, for which black pundits and their liberal fellow travelers provided a cover of race-baiting rage, Gene Robinson, who personally played a shameful part in all that, writes,
What do you think the response would be if a bunch of black people, filled with rage and armed to the teeth, took over a federal government installation and defied officials to kick them out? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be wait-and-see.
Probably more like point-and-shoot.
But if that bunch of black people took over a little cabin in the middle of nowhere?
Really?
Or what if the occupiers were Mexican-American?
They wouldn't be described with the semi-legitimizing term "militia," harking to the days of the patriots.
As if the media just chose to use that word because they want to represent these guys as heroes.
And if the gun-toting citizens happened to be Muslim, heaven forbid, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the "terrorist assault."
I can hear Donald Trump braying for blood.
Gun-toting people who "happen to be Muslim" occupying a rest stop lost in the north woods rather than, I don't know, slaughtering everybody they can at a downtown office Christmas party, or massacring civilians all over Paris?
Where would you find gun-toting people like that who "happen to be Muslim"?
Yep, Mr. Robinson really and truly is doing his best to compare these Duck Dynasty wannabees with actual terrorists.
After a while, Gene can't keep it up, and comes clean.
The yahoos in Oregon are protesting the Bureau of Land Management's policies, hardly a red-button issue for most Americans.
The federal building they seized is in a wildlife refuge, which means that by definition it's in the middle of nowhere; the nearest sizable city is Boise, Idaho, about 200 miles away.
The protesters' guns pose more of a threat to bears than people.
So no, I don't think authorities have any immediate reason to blast their way into the woods with a column of armored vehicles.
And in the end it's all about attacking Trump and the white people who support him, and white cops, and white people in general.
Ferguson. Baltimore. Tamir Rice. Yep.
All the same, the feds are doubtless going easy in part because of incidents in the past such as WACO, and the extensive support for these doofuses found among "responsible," "law abiding" libertarians and conservatives, of which those right wingers surely ought to be ashamed.
They are intimidated, in other words.
And that's not good.
Still, the specific issue the loons are protesting is worth considering.
Which is not to take sides with the loons on any other dispute or on their choice of armed "civil disobedience."
Civil Disobedience in Oregon
And are only black people to benefit from our anger at prosecutorial abuse of the law and the excesses of mandatory minimum sentences?
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