The police official said neither officer had a chance to return fire, an account that differs from Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s statements in the immediate hours following the shooting.Hmm.... My cousins used to live only a mile from this Wal-Mart. Hell, I probably drove past. The shooters were either linked to, or inspired by, criminal rancher Cliven Bundy. They used a Gadsden flag too (which is easy to order on-line).
Jerad Miller then covered the officers with the Gadsden flag, a yellow banner with a coiled snake above the words, “Don’t tread on Me,” and placed a manifesto with a swastika symbol on one officer’s body.
The flag is named for Christopher Gadsden a Revolutionary War general who designed it. It has recently come back in vogue as an adopted symbol of the American tea party movement.
The couple had left their Bruce Street apartment about 4:30 a.m., telling neighbors they planned to murder cops, the official said.
“He knew he wasn’t going to survive that day,” the official said. “Cops were going to die, and he was going to die.”
...The official said both Millers went to the Bundy Ranch near Bunkerville in April, hoping to join a militia standoff with federal agents who were trying to roundup Cliven Bundy’s cattle.
Miller on Facebook said Bundy’s ranch was “under siege,” and he hoped to help save the rancher “and his family from Federal Government slaughter.”
On his Google+ account, Jerad Miller said he was shunned by the Bundy Ranch group for being a felon. He posted that he and Amanda “sold everything” they had and quit their jobs to go to the ranch.
“As far as I am concerned my government is a fascist enemy,”…. “My family has bled for this nation and our freedoms and I will not let their sacrifice go unanswered without my own sacrifice.”
...“There is no greater cause to die for than liberty. To die for that cause is easy, to live for it is another matter. I will willingly die for liberty. Death, in a sense is freedom from tyranny. Death, is the easy way out. Most notably is the “suicide by cop” routine. Yes, standing before despots is dangerous and most likely does not end well for you. I know this, my wife knows this. Soon they will come for us, because they don’t like what we think, and what we say. They don’t like the fact that we, simply will not submit to fascist rule. We don’t have much, but we are willing to sacrifice everything…….for you, for your freedoms. Even if you wouldn’t let us have ours. We know who we are and what we stand for, do you?”
...Jerad Miller’s last post on the social media website, time-stamped at 4 a.m. Saturday reads “The dawn of a new day. May all of our coming sacrifice be worth it.”
I think they knew precisely what they stood for, and their question is well-posed. Do you know what you stand for? I certainly do! People like General William Tecumseh Sherman knew too. You put people like this into coffins. If you don't, you will pay a high price.
Interestingly, Forbes did several articles on the Sovereign Rights Movement, which Bundy is most closely-affiliated with, and which may include these folks. Various Tea Party and Untax groups are close cousins.
We aren't talking about madness here. The Miller's police ambush was a carefully-calculated political act meant to inspire an uprising. It is the logical conclusion to which an arms fetish leans. If you don't oppose it, if you excuse it like the Rush Limbaughs of the world do, you give it room to flourish. And not in some abstract sense either, but on your next visit to a restaurant!
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