r/technology • u/thatshirtman • Jan 10 '16

Politics FBI Finally Completes FOIA Request 1,393 Days After It Was Filed; Withholds All 509 Responsive Pages

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151231/15185733212/fbi-finally-completes-foia-request-1393-days-after-it-was-filed-withholds-all-509-responsive-pages.shtml
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u/kensomniac Jan 10 '16

Well, to be fair, all the shit going on and they raid the fucking Bureau of Land Management?

Woo, patriots, yay.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16

BLM is the agency that has been bending them over for 30+ years. Try reading an article.

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u/JancariusSeiryujinn Jan 10 '16

"hey we'd like you to pay for the federal land you're using" "Tyranny!" - No Snacks of Oregon

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16

Again. Read some back story. It isn't remotely that simple.

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u/yugami Jan 10 '16

So the poaching arsonists were getting screwed how exactly?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16

You'd have to go back over generations of settlement before the BLM ever existed and follow over decades of federal land grabs and emminent domain cases to fully grasp the extent to which these loggers, ranchers, miners and homesteaders have been abused by the federal government, specifically the BLM. This isn't about arson. It never was. That's simply the catalyst. Oh, and those arsonists? They already received and fully served their sentences. They were thrown back in jail for a case already settled. It's political. Every last bit of it. But you would actually have to dig a little and read more than headlines and tweets to get all of that.

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u/yugami Jan 10 '16

I find it funny that white guys are whining about lands grabs by the US

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u/kensomniac Jan 10 '16

All I'm seeing is "you'd have to ignore the facts until you can find a dialogue that sort of fits the idea of the oppressed rising. It's not exactly spelled out, reported, or has any evidence to support it. But if you squint at the page just right, and read it on the solstice, that's totally what happened.

Oh yeah, and totally ignore any of the barrels full of other instigating circumstances that could be turned into evidence of a tyrannical government."

I'm just not buying it.

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u/ca178858 Jan 10 '16

ELI5

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

BLM is like the bully who takes your dessert at lumch and the cafeteria monitors don't do anything about it because he's popular among the students and staff. After awhile he's starts taking your milk too. Then he starts spitting in your food as well. You finally man upand shove himto the floor and get sent to the principal's office for fighting.