Chris Hayes on Bundy: What if The People of Occupy Wall Street Were Holding Rifles?

"Well, people who break or are suspected of breaking the law find themselves staring at armed law enforcement officials every single day in this country. But the better question is, I think, when do people take up arms against the federal or state government point their weapons at federal agents and face no consequence for it? The answer to that is hardly ever. Watching the Bundy situation unfold I couldn't help but think back to this scene from the documentary 'Let the Fire Burn. In 1985 an armed left-wing separatist group in Philadelphia called Move had bunkered themselves inside a row house. Police didn't back down, there was a standoff, a fire-fight, and eventually a bomb was dropped on the house which killed 11 people including five children. Needless to say, the right wing media of time weren't exactly rushing to Move's defense. Today, imagine how Fox News would react to, say -- oh I don't know -- the New Black Panthers, a tiny group the network gave a huge amount of airtime to in 2012, imagine if they decided to greet law enforcement with long guns. Or, here's a thought experiment for those who are aghast at the Bureau of Land Management's actions at the Bundy Ranch and ecstatic that a crowd bearing guns were able to ward them off. If the people of Occupy Wall Street were holding rifles and snipers instead of drums and handmade signs, do you think Fox News would have called them patriots resisting tyranny? Do you think for one second that the State would have allowed them to hang out in lower Manhattan for weeks?"