MISSOULA, Mont. – Authorities searching a 30-square-mile swath of rugged Montana forest for a former militia leader and survivalist say the man was prepared for his shootout with sheriff's deputies and left several caches of food in the area.
The gunfire exchange between David Burgert, 47, and Missoula County deputies happened along a logging trail Sunday after a slow-speed chase near the historic town of Lolo on U.S. Highway 12, authorities said. The deputies returned fire before Burgert grabbed gear from the Jeep and ran into the woods, Missoula County Undersheriff Mike Dominick said. No one was hurt, and federal and state agents continue the search.
Burgert, who previously told police "he wasn't going to be taken down like last time,"
While the story is interesting, the comment sections are the real story....
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110614/ap_on_re_us/us_shots_fired_manhunt
These are samples from the first two pages...
Two moving violations, in two weeks time, sounds like "SOMEONE" was looking for a confrontation!!!
Only a few short days ago Yahoo and the AP were laying-out praise for a former leader of the Black Panther Movement that was convicted of murder some 40 years ago. The man died of a heart attack, the Yahoo News was quick to point-out how he was "wrongly convicted" of a murder and spent 27 years in prison. What they didn't tell was the MOUNTAIN of evidence against the man in the murder case back then.
As another poster correctly points-out. Please don't call THIS man a "leader of a militia group". Call a spade a spade. Say, "He's a convicted felon that is not allowed to have access to firearms. Yet he has them now. He has been diagnosed with a paranoic personality disorder and was the leader of a radical group that wanted to wage war against the federal, state and local governments."
Maybe I should get a job with the AP newswire to help them tell the TRUTH instead of giving their own leftwing slant.
By all accounts, "Project 7" was a loose bunch of ne'er-do-wells that never even got organized enough to call themselves a "militia".
Then again, the term has routinely been used as a catchphrase ever since the '90s to categorize anyone who is "anti-government" and right-wing...and "anti-government" has sometimes been expanded to include anyone with dissident views, regardless of whether they want the government overthrown or not.
It is not a term EVER used to describe left-wing groups, not even those which are actively militant and openly anti-government.
It's just a news article, and probably doesn't have much truth in it.
They'll have him talking drugs, and sexually abusing children, before it's over. That's just standard operating procedure when they take someone out. Take it with a grain of salt, it's just the "US news."
i agree with annie. many times our paranoias are justified. take the pot head for instance. the authorities tells us that pot makes people who use it paranoid.
well.., if you have people out to arrest you, destroy your family, take your job away, stick you in a cage, shoot you..., all based on lies and propaganda, ...i'd say our parnoias are justified.
Paranoid personality disorder. Is that where guys are taught to shoot, issued firearms and uniforms, and then instructed that our founding fathers were terrorists and citizens are ignorant trash? I just want to get a clearer picture of what a description of paranoid personality disorder is.
usually the comments on Yahoo spin left. This is very interesting...
usually the comments on Yahoo spin left. This is very interesting...
ReplyDeleteYes, and below is right on.
Paranoid personality disorder. Is that where guys are taught to shoot, issued firearms and uniforms, and then instructed that our founding fathers were terrorists and citizens are ignorant trash? I just want to get a clearer picture of what a description of paranoid personality disorder is.
Brock:
ReplyDeleteI saw that article earlier today, and posted my own comment in support of this guy.
Yes, among the commenters, there appears to be almost universal sympathy and support for this fugitive, along with expressions of distrust of our government.
Also, there is a report at the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE newspaper's web site, dated Friday 12 June 2011, about the FBI giving themselves additional powers to harass citizens.
Again, nearly every comment in response to that report expressed disapproval, along with a general mistrust of the government.
And, yes, my own comments were added.
Originally, I learned of the story at the DRUDGE REPORT web site, but that link has suddenly and mysteriously(?) disappeared.
Thank you.
John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Gulfport, Mississippi 39507
A tactic of the Soviet Union. Claim that someone is suffering from a paranoid disorder and lock them away forever. Our Declaration of Independence states that we have the God given right to dismantle a corrupt government. I guess that our "leaders" forgot to read that part!!
ReplyDeleteWhat we are witnessing is just the beginning of the larger yet unfolding story of the new Amerika. Dissent must be stopped at any and all cost.
I too found the posted comments very interesting. It seems to me that people aren't so quick to fall for this "survivalist is a bad guy" bullshit story.
Maybe things will play out like this....
The scene in Braveheart where the locals are being chased on horseback and cornered. The groups leader (wearing the joker looking helmet) asks "Where's Wallace?". A small rock thrown by Wallace reveals the rout that is about to happen.
Doug
Newark, Ohio
that link has suddenly and mysteriously(?) disappeared.
ReplyDeleteStrange.
It seems to me that people aren't so quick to fall for this "survivalist is a bad guy" bullshit story.
ReplyDeleteGood point.