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Electric Ukulele Land's avatar

How was the problem growing? I think from an operational perspective, the feds did exactly what they should have -- wait these people out until they get so comfortable they do something dumb like assume they can come and go at their leisure and pick them up when they're at their most vulnerable and easily isolated thereby minimizing the potential harm to everyone involved. The fact that one of these occupiers resisted and got himself shot is pretty much all the proof you need that slow walking the situation and not escalating by adding more people into the mix was the smart way to go. That the group got off on a legal technicality or just jury nullification afterwards doesn't seem to me to be justification for putting anyone in harm's way unnecessarily, which seems to be what you're advocating for.

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CATMAN's avatar

I sure as hell have but in this case, the reporting was the JD guys came off as heavy handed and far too moralistic and overplayed their hand

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