I can't imagine how much he agonizes over this.
Funny, if I go back and read the entire post, it says nothing about protection. What it does say is that they're willing to shoot law enforcement who attempt to do their job and remove them from a place they've no legal right to be in. That's not self protection, that's a hostile act towards the United States, pure and simple.
No. The Oregon militia is trying to stop law enforcement from doing their job, while the Ferguson rioters were doing the opposite - they
wanted law enforcement to act.
And again, by trying to classify a riot as terrorism, you need to be ready to classify all riots as such. So I'll pose it again: was the Boston Tea Party terrorism?
Empty words.
"We don't wan't to hurt anybody, but the only way to avoid violence is to allow us to continue our illegal behavior until we decide we don't want to anymore."
You're right, how noble of them.
As I just pointed out, those words are so empty, they weren't even worth addressing.
You may find humor in setting a precedent that allows armed thugs to intimidate law enforcement into standing down and allowing them to do as they please, but I don't.
Except that's exactly what they want to do.