Throughout that gigantic clusterfuck at his ranch recently, daddy Bundy made it crystal clear to the entire world that he is a special person. He intended to, and believed that he did, speak on behalf of himself, his progeny, and a much larger reality.
On the other hand, jail is also a sort of a special place.
It ain’t the wide open range. It ain’t folks saying howdy. It’s not even millions of people giving you and yours a world of shit electronically because you have proved yourself, to so many, to be socially counter productive.
Jail doesn’t even care about any of that.
Yeah a couple of the Bundy kids got wrapped up in the hype, caught up in the more recent moment. Tried to believe “Father knows best”. Apparently even convinced themselves that hundreds, maybe even thousands of Militia guns could translate into “might’ and “right”, could literally change the trajectory of the future (though sadly for them, no one showed this time).
Jail still doesn’t care.
Multnomah County jail, which has the main federal DOJ contract for pretrial confinement in Oregon has, what twelve, thirteen hundred beds? As far as the jailers are concerned, everybody, all kinds of people, come and go. Individuals are special almost never. “We get their papers, we print them, we do mugshots, we strip them, and we look up their assholes.” Celebrities, important people, they left that in booking.
And jail still just doesn’t care.
As for the guys, they went in believing. Believing that who they are mattered. Believing in the groundswell of support that doesn’t exist, and never has. Believing that when they listened to Rush Limbaugh on the radio station out on their open range that life really does consist of government suppression for all who don’t actively resist.
And then they get busted. And then then get booked, but still believing in all of the right wing BS that they’ve been raised on, they, once, and for all, learn, unmistakably, that jail just doesn’t care.
P.S. When these guys get in population, meaning tried, convicted, sentenced, and self surrender, they will learn that they have inhabited a world for their entire lives that left them blessed beyond even any hope of at least 99% of humanity, and that they still “intelligently” decided qualified them as “oppressed”.