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On Cliven Bundy and holding the line against tyranny
By Chris CovertRantburg.com It appears that Cliven Bundy's remarks were misreported and the video presenting them had been selectively edited. A number of "conservatives" had bolted, dropping their vocal support for Patriots now deployed in the desert in Nevada , chiefly among them were the writers at hotair.com, and probably a number of others, saying his remarks were "beyond the pale". All because of spurious charges of racism against the central character in the story, Cliven Bundy. This reminds me of 2005 when a number of individuals I had previously considered "conservative" broke for the other side just after Dubya's ugly 2004 presidential win and just before the left's victories in taking over Congress. I said then, and I am saying now that target discrimination is a critical factor in building opposition against the left, and so when people bolt for the other side, they become the enemy. I unfriended a Dallas attorney, who was posing as a conservative today because of this very issue, because he bolted the line before the actual data had become clear. That is what government and the left does. They shattered the line and then sit back to watch the whole thing collapse. Just like in 2006. I remember it clearly since I witnessed a number of allies accuse me and a number of others of misogyny for opposing Dubya's putative appointment to SCOTUS of Harrient Miers. I said at the time she was an unknown in the legal field and that the nomination should be withdrawn. By the time it was, a number of others had continued to level charges against like minded people, when in fact the reason for opposition had nothing to do with Miers' gender. That was a time when I used to march to the polls to vote republican because of the issue of the Constitution and nominating justices to the bench; before I saw SCOTUS destroy the last mantles of its legitimacy in ruling by the Constitution. The damage was done. I stopped visiting sites of those "conservatives" regarding them as unreliable, unable to hold the line even in the face of mounting opposition from the left. Narcissism doesn't just affect the left, but those who hold the larger megaphones on the right. It is no mistake that those who did break today do not know how to determine when an enemy had shot his bolt, as the government did in Nevada two weeks ago. They reacted to fear, just the way the left and those in governmental power expected them to. For whatever reason, personal power, hope to be included in government, etc. Whatever their reasons, they did us a disservice and that service to us will not be forgotten. If there comes a time when those people, now enemies, come to their senses, they will do so of their own accord and without my approval, when they realize that life and liberty are at stake, our lives and liberty. There won't be any fat jobs, or money or personal aggrandizement awaiting them if Patriots win, but just the simple knowledge that they finally decided to oppose tyranny and commit resources, personal and otherwise to that end. Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com Posted by: badanov 2014-04-25 |
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