Is this racist?

[HairOfTheDog]

Perhaps these yokels should speak with the leaders of AIM or any local native tribe to see how occupying land and demanding it be returned to your people generally works out.

If the local native tribe was occupying a government building and issuing demands and threats against law enforcement, I suspect that law enforcement wouldn't be exercising the same patient and calm strategy. I think Adub and Duchess are probably right about that, unfortunately.

If armed BLM (Black Lives Matter) activists occupied a remote and otherwise empty government building and threatened law enforcement if their demands for criminal justice reform weren't met, I suspect even more strongly that those activists would be removed by force quickly.

In the case of these self-proclaimed "patriots", however, I think law enforcement will just wait them out, like they did with patriarch Cliven Bundy and his posse. The Fed doesn't want the backlash that came with Ruby Ridge and Waco, even though the cases are very different. Unlike Ruby Ridge and Waco, the Bundy gang have invaded a community, broken laws proudly and openly, and threatened to kill law enforcement officers who try to remove them from the illegally-occupied property.

I don't believe the government will give the occupiers the acres of land they demand, but I could see this one ending in another slap on the wrist for the criminal Bundys and company, followed by more such crimes being committed by emboldened like-minded gangs.