It is unfortunate that LEOs now have far too much experience in paramilitary pacification from our endless wars for oil, since some remaining members of the Bundystani insurgency have chosen to “stay and fight” rather than take advantage of a path to unprosecuted exit.
Considering the content and structure of the current documents used to arrest the Bundystani leadership, anyone more peripherally involved should simply try to live to fight another day. The information used to develop the warrants revealed nothing of LEO intelligence gathering from non-public sources and chances are that informants still remain in the siege site as well as other electronic intelligence gathering probably planted from the beginning.
With respect to the possibility that LaVoy Finicum engaged in ‘suicide by police’ the remaining insurgents should appreciate the asymmetry of LEO force available as well as whether their actions will really be a useful martyrdom.
It will be the case thanks to some intrepid story writing here in the DK Community Spotlight, that Blaine Cooper, the de facto leader will now face some unfortunate challenges that will also have interesting nuance. Will Malheur now become the RWNJ Benghazi embassy(sic) rather than Waco or Ruby Ridge now that one fatality has occured, and the III%ers in town planning to fight an action like 13 Hours.
Which means, I suspect, that the refuge is now a place without clear leadership, where a couple of dozen very young men, who are no doubt very freaked out right now, are hunkered down with their AR-15s, waiting for the hammer to fall.
And the nearby town of Burns is infested with Three Percenters and other militia types. Who knows what they’re thinking tonight.
There’s only one person with the authority to call the game. I doubt they’ll listen to anybody else.
#TarpMan may have had more in common with #BLM than one thinks, for example when he “charged at” the LEOs when his truck got stuck in a snowbank, was he actually brandishing a weapon or was he killed like a French terrorist and this might be more like a convergence of #BLM and the B.L.M..
www.rawstory.com/…
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He was like, I’m just going to drive. I’m just going to talk to the sheriff. And he’s like, either shoot me now or just leave us alone. (inaudible) They said, “Get your hands up!” And he decided to just drive. So we all got down on the floorboard and he drove off and they all started firing at us. Started shooting at us a bunch of times and they had a roadblock set up. And he ran into a snow bank and they were like riddling the car with bullets. And when we crashed, he stopped for a second. He got out of the car and he had his hands in the air and he’s like “Just shoot me dead! Just shoot me!” And they did. They shot him dead.
Thursday, Jan 28, 2016 · 4:47:19 AM +00:00 · annieli
A steady trickle of occupiers already had taken up offers to leave, including one of the last remaining leaders, Blaine Cooper. Cooper, who is typically active on social media, was quiet on Wednesday and his whereabouts remain unknown.
David Fry, a 27-year-old Ohioan who has kept up a near-constant video live stream in the occupation's last days, appears to still be at the refuge.
His YouTube channel, DefendYourBase, showed the flickering flames of a campfire Wednesday evening.
The last occupiers could be heard admiring the beauty of the stars.
They said they saw four eagles fly over them.
"We're all at peace with our decision," one man could be heard saying. "We feel like there's going to be a miracle here. And we're praying for it."