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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:How is Cliven Bundy not in jail after having an armed standoff against federal officers?
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Because an attempt to arrest him would result in armed confrontation with law officers, and likely death on both sides. He and his supporters words and actions have threatened this. 

The government agencies involved are making a conscious decision to let this wacko have his own little piece of America instead of igniting a powder keg of rights issues that would likely lead to civilian militias rising up across the nation.