The Bundys and the Armed Occupation of a National Wildlife Refuge

The idea that you could get the government of a democratic country to override a decision of its judicial system, by staging an armed insurrection (however limited), is a tad dangerous, don't you think ?

That won't please the wingnuts - his attorney arguing that "the feds are coming to get you" is a paranoid delusion :-)

I would recommend that you read this UN report on the state of affairs in North Korea: OHCHR | Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of KoreaThe longer version of the report includes testimonies of some of the survivors of the North Korean regime. Examples of testimony include needles being driven underneath fingernails, forced starvation, and numerous brutal tortures.If, having read that, you continue to describe the US government as tyrannical, then I am afraid you will be sorely embarrassing yourself.

Hmmm, maybe :-/There are some sketches of torture techniques in the longer document, drawn by a survivor. They're not pleasant, but they give something of an idea.

The language we use is important. And when wildly exaggerated language is used to inflame anger, fear and outrage, at the expense of cool thought and analysis, then the outcome is almost inevitably worse.The liberal left is not completely innocent in this area, but the new right has taken to exaggeration as a duck to water. The US government is not tyrannical (the dictionary definitions refer to cruel and oppressive - and whilst there can be a debate about the extent of any law being "oppressive", it is impossible to describe a liberal democracy as cruel with any degree of accuracy).So I will call out exaggerations such as this. Let's talk, not shout.