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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by Barrin92 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:51PM (#25840636)
another thing that immediately came to mind after the capitol rioting was the standoff with Cliven Bundy and an article I saw a few years ago[1]. I even remembered that at the time there were people on Fox who were downplaying this as some sort of patriotic resistance against the government. Imagine if someone started a caliphate on US territory, I'm sure we'd be hearing the same kind of arguments /s

"Cliven Bundy and sons cleared in case of 2014 armed standoff, a major defeat for the federal government that critics fear will empower far-right militia groups"

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/08/bundy-family...

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by aerosmile on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:15PM (#25840880)
You forgot to mention why the charges were dropped:

> The judge declared a mistrial in December and ruled on Monday that prosecutors could not retry the case, arguing that the US attorney’s office had willfully withheld evidence and engaged in misconduct.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by bsanr2 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:09PM (#25842172)
Somehow I don't think such consideration would have been extended to the Boston bombers, even with LE overreach on display for the whole country to see re: the search and entry tactics in Watertown et al.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by ryathal on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:05PM (#25848854)
The Bundy thing was 100% government needlessly escalating a matter, that should have been some lawyers negotiating a reasonable fees and promises to not intentionally graze on federal land. If that failed they simply could have arrested him driving in to town or some equally mundane action.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by jki275 on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:11AM (#25868544)
The government tried to negotiate with him for something like forty years.

He had no intention of complying or paying any of his bills.

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