That Night I Spent with Ammon Bundy’s Armed Militia

[tencats]

Up in the watchtower:

What are these?” I asked reflexively, as I realized they were magazines of ammunition.

“Candy,” Payne said.

There was a rifle in the room, and a piece of equipment that they were trying to hide from me, so I shone my cell phone on it. It was a long-range surveillance scope, engineered to make it possible to see a target from far away—a sniper setup. “We don’t want to talk about that,” Payne said. “It’s really cool though, right?”

The truth is that most simply wanted to be there. Cooper and his wife told me they quit their jobs, cashed in their 401(k) funds, and left their three kids with friends in Arizona to be “full-time patriots.” They told me the militia had already won: they’d occupied federal buildings without firing a single shot. More importantly, the entire world knew it. He gestured to me as if to say, “Just look at you, you’re here.”

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[randys1]

1. Quit their jobs? Why not join the Army and go to Afghanistan if they want to be patriots?

[B Calm]

2. It is a bird sanctuary and they are loons. .

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. "You are truly going to witness the cream of humanity’s moral possibility here.”

Uhhhh......what?