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2014-04-19 -Land of the Free

This Week in Guns: Bundy Ranch Special Edition

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Posted by badanov 2014-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "the armed militia that day behaved like A well regulated militia ~~well trained military~~ force against the clownish federal government."

Badanov, well done I would have only changed one sentence...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-04-19 01:00|| 2014-04-19 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I really beginning to think the progressives are Manchurian candidates. They have dismantled and through misuse discredited nearly every government agency in the last five years. The IRS going after political opponents, the EPA regulating rain gutters and wood stoves, DOJ- holy shit- where do I start with this one, health care, the removal of warrior class generals, the national parks shut down, have not had a budget for either term of his presidency, Spending is unchecked-our nation is broke, supporting AQ and the muslim brotherhood, sitting idle during the Iranian uprising, vets are all sick, gun control, god we can go on for days. We are close to mid terms, no action until they are done. Then on to the next election. Calls of fraud will be rampant and my guess zero will call the elections until Holder can look into it. Damn, I need more Jack Daniels in my bug out pack!

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-04-19 01:08|| 2014-04-19 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The other Nevada Senator, Republican, Dean Heller is calling the militia, Patriots. Wants to have a Congressional hearing on why the BLM marched into Nevada like an army with snipers trained on Nevada citizens.

Interview with Nevada Senators Heller and Reid side by side. Seems Heller is trying to cool off Reids hot head in the interview.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-19 01:10|| 2014-04-19 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 It is a man and his rifle. And a well trained light infantry force is unstoppable.

"Unstoppable" for a time. Then the land, cattle, and families are taken, and eventually redistributed as the government sees fit. Dear vader ek bid vir ons groot land. [Dear father I pray for our great country]

The Surrender of General Cronje, 27 Feb 1900

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-19 02:47|| 2014-04-19 02:47|| Front Page Top

#5 ...The British military paid a butchers price to make that happen and gave ideas to the Germans and others about concentration camps. Today, I doubt anyone could use the American military like that...yet. The trade off for blind political obedience will be a drop in effectiveness and discipline the Brits didn't experience back then.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-19 08:21|| 2014-04-19 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope you are right P2k. We're 'All In' as they say, and at my age, there is nowhere else to go.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-19 08:44|| 2014-04-19 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and just a appropriate reminder about the 19th of April.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-19 08:52|| 2014-04-19 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Thnx, Pan.

Posted by badanov 2014-04-19 08:58|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-04-19 08:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Standing ovation! Well done P2k.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-19 09:00|| 2014-04-19 09:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Sig Sauer tips, a short informative video.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-19 09:14|| 2014-04-19 09:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Excellent write up badanov. A lot to think about. Thank you for posting.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-04-19 13:56|| 2014-04-19 13:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Most welcome, AP

Posted by badanov 2014-04-19 14:44|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-04-19 14:44|| Front Page Top

#13 badanovm, as for the Posse Comitatus act: IIRC, the president can use the Armed Forces to put down a "revolt". All O needs to do next time is to call the militias revolutionaries, and he is free to use all of the power of the US Arm to put down the revolt.

Also, do not think that US troops will not fire on US citizens. There are plenty of precedents for that.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-04-19 15:01|| 2014-04-19 15:01|| Front Page Top

#14 The technical stuff - Insurrection Act of 1807.

As for troops firing on their own civilians. Some will (see-Pullman Strike), others won't. It would, however, fracture the military similar to 1861. A bad gamble on who ever ties it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-19 15:38|| 2014-04-19 15:38|| Front Page Top

#15 All those training exercises with the Right being the enemy of all those government agencies.... now it makes sense. The government trains against those it sees as potential enemies and being the leftist tyranny it is, of course it would see a scenario just like what just happened and plan for it.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-19 17:51|| 2014-04-19 17:51|| Front Page Top

#16 A comment I saw in one of the patriot blogs was that at least one of the BLM agents was a US Army Special Forces soldier. If that is true, then the site commander for the federal government was in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. It doesn't seem that the current regime cares much about laws or at least they are selective in which laws they choose to obey. At times it seems like a race between the next election and the country erupting into conflict.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-04-19 18:32|| 2014-04-19 18:32|| Front Page Top

#17 Reid is so STUPID. He is focusing on MILITIAS while ignoring the 7 MILE TRAFFIC JAM of non-militia people trying to get into Mesquite that morning wanting to get a piece of the feds, too.

Americans all across the board he is out of touch with. And he is too dumb to realize it.

Americans are itching for more battlegrounds, I tell ya.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-19 19:30|| 2014-04-19 19:30|| Front Page Top

#18 I wonder if the mid terms hadn't been just a few months off if this deal in Nevada might not have played out differently.

The Fed is way over due for some push back.

Posted by El Jefe 2014-04-19 20:34|| 2014-04-19 20:34|| Front Page Top

#19 It plays out how it plays out.

15 dead in Fort Hood is an employee beef

Zero dead, and not one shot fired is domestic terrorism.

Posted by badanov 2014-04-19 20:59|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-04-19 20:59|| Front Page Top

#20 If the description in the video is true, then the armed militia that day behaved like a well trained military force against the clownish federal government.

I'm inclined to go with the theory in the one video you mentioned that the militia leadership realized they were in a no-win situation; that, despite with 20+:1 odds in their favor, they, the demonstrators, and the BLM agents were likely being set-up.

Posted by Pappy 2014-04-19 21:59|| 2014-04-19 21:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Badanov: I think the Feds _want_ an incident they can use politically, and don't care whether they win the engagement.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-19 22:05|| 2014-04-19 22:05|| Front Page Top

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