"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson
The government should remember its history, least it should be forced to repeat it.

It's almost like the smell in the air before a storm. It's not something you can definitely identify, but you know it when it's in the air. When you combine this event with Connecticut and New York gun owners refusing to obey a blatantly unconstitutional registration law, with the discoveries of the IRS attempting to bypass the SCOTUS ruling on Citizens United, with the Tea Party wins in 2010, with the outrage that still boils over WACO and Ruby Ridge, with the rise of inflation outpacing wages and available work, with the insanity of Obamacare, with money that has no value, with so many little outrages over police brutality, SWAT tactics, and the failure of the judicial system to control them, and the obvious outright lies by those in all levels of government - change is coming.

Not a slow change like the turning of the ship of state or the pace of nature. A snap change like the release of the pent up energy of a lightening storm. It almost became an explosion in the desert of Nevada. The explosion wasn't extinguished. Only a slower fuse was installed. But the forces arrayed against a small time rancher in that desert won't make the same mistake of allowing a week or more for the word to get out and for citizens to respond against them again.

Make no mistake. Leviathan doesn't give up it's power easily. There will be an explosion. There will be blood. There will be many lives wasted in courts and prisons around the nation. The storm is coming.

It backfired on the BLM/REID bullies and produced quite a different result than they anticipated.

As the article continues, "The reality was much the opposite. Liberty groups arrived in droves and were staunchly unified — not by a centralized leadership, but in defense of the basic moral principles outlined in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Sources on the ground at the Bundy ranching operation relayed to me that at least 1,000 activists and militia members arrived over the weekend, with many more on the way."

I think the results might be widespread with the Patriot movement. Thank you.

I guess I'm "fringe" too. Most of the country is "fringe" by the statist definition.

we had enough sheeple awake in 2010, but too many took the surge for granted in 2012; perhaps they have learned their lesson (like Coulter, we Must Vote Against Statists) so that 2014 will prove that we're awake, and maybe someone like Mike Lee will engender enough loyalty in '16!!! -- j

the question I have is "will some of the blm employees get the message and understand that they are on the wrong side?" will they understand that they too are subject to getting the shaft that they are attempting to give other citizens at the behest of some elected "official"? as I see it if it had not been for reids involvement the bundys would have been left alone as they had been for the past 20 years. I just wonder how much time we have left before all hell breaks loose.

Excellent analysis piece, pirate.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. To paraphrase another slogan," Libertas para bellum".

I wonder what the Feds will do to combat this. They will probably try to divide the opposition but how?