I'm not even going to entertain this whole issue with Bundy being a racists. It is a distraction from the real issues and will only bring up the same old discussion and emphasize division. It has nothing to do with what really matters is this case.
I agree. This new issue was raked up just to weaken the anti-BLM militia. And the smear campaign aimed at them may be used to justify any heavy handed action by the feds later.
At this point what we have are rational and reasonable people who put the typical amount of time into following things so mad at the resurgent 'militia movement' that they literally believe they should gas Bundy's place to put them all to sleep, then go in and round up the whole gang, dis-arm them, and never let them touch a gun again. If some of them got shot it would, I'm sure, be a regrettable but necessary cost of doing a necessary and correct thing on the part of the Feds. I know from first hand experience in talking to such a person in the flesh. This sentiment will die down in vigor but the seed will remain. Anyone who needs to be vilified and actions against him justified from now on can have a 'militia' or 'oathkeeper' or whatever tag put on him. This was somewhat effective before the Bundy event, and is that much more effective now.
My own information about the Randy Weaver case comes from a Jon Ronson book I just read called 'Them: Adventures with Extremists'. Prior to that, my understanding of the events of that incident mostly came from the mainstream media which I used as a significant source of news until a decade or so ago. It is pretty clear from Ronson's work that 'injustice' is a vast understatement of what the government(s) did to the Weaver clan, I mention this because I just happened by an info-grapic running down various 'extremist' events in Newsweek one of them being the Weaver thing. Exactly the same severe twisting of the Weaver affair that was used back then was used now. I pride myself on not getting pissed easily, but that came close.
This impact on great swaths of our society was, if I remember correctly, exactly what I predicted in my earlier posts. Predicting this was a no-brainer. Predicting that such an event would be useful was also a no-brainer. I again wonder if the whole thing was not a fairly carefully choreographer psyop. It just ended up being to convenient and to useful. And again, the Bundy clan no matter what there actual beliefs (which probably are 'extreme') owed $1M. That is a decent amount of leverage to get someone to actively play ball in a psyop.