Oregon Militia Members Tell FBI They Have ‘Demands’-And They’re Hilarious! (Audio) https://t.co/UGPVFSEqS6 pic.twitter.com/Fz9ExzuEUU
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[W]e do have an audio recording of the FBI talking with a member of the Moron Militia, who says he has a some “demands.” The FBI agent conversing with the militant says he’s listening, at which point you can hear the less-than-stable Oregon militia member declare: You let Hillary run for president. You let Obama bring terrorists into our country.
With the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge finally over, it’s time to consider its place in history. When that history is written, it very likely will be compiled by late-night comedians mining it for material…and there’s much to be found of comedic value. When you consider the number of truly, deeply, significantly unbalanced and paranoid personalities to be found among the occupiers (You let Hillary Clinton run for President!), it’s difficult to take seriously the case being made by those occupiers.
David Fry, one of the last four still present at the wildlife refuges, evidently has a history of mental instability of various flavors. While I’m (someone who’s battled depression for years) the last person with a right or cause to ridicule Fry and his compatriots/partners in crime, this “patriot’s” rant is telling in that he never mentions the casus belli behind the occupation. Never does he come close to mentioning the Hammonds (sent to prison) for burning federal rangeland or the group’s belief that federal ownership of land is unconstitutional (It’s not).
So it was that an occupation intended by its leaders to protest federal land ownership and the “tyrannical,” “unconstitutional” overreach of the federal government as evidenced by the imprisonment of two ranchers they felt were guilty only of using land that belonged to the American people devolved into a farce. Their “revolution” quickly became a running joke focused on dildos, gummi dicks, and a lack of snacks (including French Vanilla-flavored coffee creamer). I mean, who will ever forget Jon Ritzheimer’s classic YouTube video in which he denounced those misguided American “patriots” who were wasting their hard-earned money on shipping them sex toys.
Don’t even get me started on the 55-gallon drum of lube one wag donated to the cause….
When the authoritative history examining the occupation is written, I hope that for posterity’s sake it will be co-written by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. There’s little to come out of it that can or should be taken seriously. Americans absolutely should be having a hearty laugh at the expense of The Gang That Forgot To Bring Snacks ©. Their ineptitude, incompetence, and self-righteous (and albeit unintentional) exercise in self-parody overrode and obliterated any message they might have hope would be communicated to the American Sheeple.
Now they’ll be able to occupy another federal building- a prison, and hopefully for a very long time.
