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		ryathal on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Faceboo... The Bundy thing was 100% government needlessly escalating a matter, that should have been some lawyers negotiating a reasonable fees and promises to not intentionally graze on federal land. If that failed they simply could have arrested him driving in to town or some equally mundane action.

jki275 on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

The government tried to negotiate with him for something like forty years.

He had no intention of complying or paying any of his bills.

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