"Neighbors who were drawn by the commotion poked their heads out and were ordered to go back into their rooms."
How long before this changes to, "Neighbors who were drawn by the commotion brought their deer rifles to their windows and shot all the assailants dead." I can dream...
I seriously don't know why this doesn't happen, or indeed why it didn't happen in the case in point. It is the logical thing to do, we all live in communities and if someone is being singled out and attacked by a mob of strangers it is natural to pitch in and defend them. People say they hate being ordered around, treated like children, "go back into your rooms, you silly people, this has nothing to do with you", but go back to their room is exactly what they did. The article says that the assailants didn't identify themselves as "police" (if they had, would that have made it "alright"?) so as far as the neighbours were concerned it was just a gang of home invaders attacking a family.
As I have said before, it is well past time that we all started to stick up for each other. We must all realise that it WILL be us next! With the anniversary of the Waco siege of 1993, coming up, it is a good time for reflection. Are we going to let that happen again? It surely will. "9.11" was a "Waco", perpetrated probably because the PTB got away with "Waco" and "Ruby Ridge" and knew that the public would accept and believe their lies about it. It is just a matter of time. I guess incidents like the one described above are "mini Wacos", they are happening all the time. Is it a matter of degree? "Only a few" people killed this time, so it is OK"?, the old adage about "gov't proposes to cut off your leg, so you protest and they agree to cut of only half your leg, and that is accepted"?
When I finally realised what actually did happen at the Waco siege (in about 2000, due mainly to the lack of local news on the subject and my own laziness to not bother finding out. But now I "got the books") I wondered how they so easily got away with it as it occurred within months of "Ruby Ridge". Were people not sufficiently outraged by that incident that they were wary of it happening again? I always thought that after "Ruby Ridge" there would have definitely been justification for an absolute, spontaneous "by the people" annihilation of the BAFTE. After all wasn't it some of the same "exonerated" people who murdered and tortured the family and their children at Ruby Ridge who did the same things at "Waco" and will continue to do the same things again, to others?