BURNS - The divide among friends and neighbors over the refuge occupation boiled into the open here Tuesday night in a community meeting that crackled with emotion.
What residents have feared and only whispered about in recent days took center court at the Burns High School gymnasium.
In sometimes highly personal remarks, speaker after speaker vented anger - at public officials, at the federal government and at the man in the brown cowboy hat sitting high in the bleachers to take it all in - Ammon Bundy.
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Horrifying to witness, even via Twitter. The great American theme I've witnessed in my long life is Loss. Loss of civility. Loss of historic and political intelligence.
The community became two angry mobs shouting at one another. Preview of the election if Trump is the nominee.
Morris Berman is dead right. The American Empire is finished.
As it is turning out, good riddance -- but it will be ugly.
Depressing. Up early to bake bread, something POSITIVE.
What residents have feared and only whispered about in recent days took center court at the Burns High School gymnasium.
In sometimes highly personal remarks, speaker after speaker vented anger - at public officials, at the federal government and at the man in the brown cowboy hat sitting high in the bleachers to take it all in - Ammon Bundy.
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Horrifying to witness, even via Twitter. The great American theme I've witnessed in my long life is Loss. Loss of civility. Loss of historic and political intelligence.
The community became two angry mobs shouting at one another. Preview of the election if Trump is the nominee.
Morris Berman is dead right. The American Empire is finished.
As it is turning out, good riddance -- but it will be ugly.
Depressing. Up early to bake bread, something POSITIVE.
