Boys And Their Toys, Redux

The Bundys (Cliven and Ammon and Jeptha and whoever, not Al and Peggy) are playing army again.  I have zero respect for these "patriot" "militias," which are neither.  The Bundys are freeloading racist lunatics, who think they don't have to pay grazing fees, and that it's okay to point guns at federal agents.  They've occupied a federal building- that is, our building, yours and mine.  So in addition to cheapskates and scofflaws, they are trespassers and thieves. 

The locals don't want them there.  The criminals they are ostensibly supporting don't want them there.  The tribe the land was stolen from doesn't want them there.  The birdwatchers who frequent the wildlife refuge don't want them there.  And yet they stay.  They say God wants them there, but though I am no theologian I don't think they have a clue what God wants.  Think of what would happen- what has happened- when Natives, or Blacks, or Muslims occupy a building by force and threaten to kill the police.  Just as should happen in those cases, in this case I think we should wait them out, starve them, let them freeze, until they become bored and uncomfortable enough to give up.  Then we should throw the book at them.

I see these idiots waving the flag while attacking this country.  When I see the flag waving I think of what this country stands for: Freedom.  Justice.  The history our country has gone through, the changes the flag has been a part of.  I don't think about people stealing from the government.  Refusing to pay grazing rights, stealing from the rest of us.   Occupying federal buildings.  I do not think of those people as patriots.   I think of them as traitors.  And idiots, since they don't understand this country, or the Constitution.  They should give up and be the responsible individuals they claim to be, by paying their fees, fines, serving jail time, whatever.  I don't want to say much more about them.  They, and their ridiculous beliefs, should fade away.